Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 5 | July 22nd | Trade Targets, NL/AL Reports & Elevator Talk

Episode Date: July 22, 2019

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Hello and welcome to Talkin Baseball, Episode 3, July 22nd. We got the NL and A.L. Reports. We're going to catch you up on all the action from the weekend. We got a bunch of trade targets, a bunch of teams looking to get those trade targets, talk about what we think about all that. Elevator Talk, Slump Watch, Enfuego, and the rest. We're excited. Let's go.

All right. Well, well, soundboard's still not here. So for the live viewers on Patreon, I apologize about that. But we are very excited to be doing this show again every Monday, every Friday. You guys did it. I thought I asked for about 50 reviews. I said first 50 get stickers. I think we're sitting over 200 right now, Jake.

It was impressive as hell. You guys are the best. Got us into the top five on the iTunes sports list. We couldn't be any more thankful, grateful, and grateful. and proud of the community and everyone. So hopefully we get another great fantastic show. Jake is coming to you from a bender. He's playing like a gutt game.

I wish it was a bender. I'm just on that travel mode, man, reverse travel life. Going east coast to west coast gets a little gnarly, especially you work in a couple delays. But Poppy Gordo got in at about, 4 a.m. last night, feeling good. Got the dog from doggy daycare. I hadn't seen him in like 13 days.

So we set our pleasant trees. He's asleep. He's very asleep. He was at dog camp having a good time, so he's actually probably pissed to be here. Jim, the top five thing is bizarre, because baseball's not popular anymore. That's what I've been told.

So, I mean, having a Yankees podcast hit number two, and then just a talking baseball podcast. at five. It just doesn't add up to me, but no, it's, it's awesome. And thanks, thanks everyone. We, uh, we, we, we, we had a pretty cool couple of days. Yeah. There's a couple, couple moments in the past few years where you definitely have tough days and you're like, what, what is this? And, uh, something like that makes it all worthwhile, especially I, I saw some family and friends and they were all over the moon for me. And I know that's some of the best part of it for both of us. And, uh, When all of you guys follow us and tweet at us and do all that, you kind of become our friends.

We have this network of Yankee, like, pseudo-online friends that we've met, and some of them have become real-life friends. And we're excited to do that around the league. Yep. So we thank you. I was going to say something, but now I forget. We got a lot of baseball to discuss. I was going to say, I think the goal is to go live for Patrions at 10 o'clock Eastern Time every Monday and Friday. We're a bit late today, but like we said, Jake's travel schedule is insane.

So just happy to have him gutting us out with us. I meant a travel bender, not a drinking bender. I know. That's what I'm saying. I wish it was a real bender. Yeah. Although I saw you having some beers at the airport. I had a course, light.

I had a beer or two with dinner. Almost law if your flight gets delayed. Yeah. I mean, Bradley International. They got a new lounge and there was a Groupon deal and says, I mean, drinks and stuff. So yeah, whatever. Yeah, you got to. You got to.

How are you doing, Jim? I'm good. I'm excited. Today's like back to normal in the office, intern Luke's here. I got up at 7 a.m. because I know that once we start this, we have four shows to record and edit and all that. And I wanted to get some breakdowns out beforehand.

I was on DeZone last night talking baseball with Cess's family barbecue. That was exciting. So things are going good. It's been wild. I know a lot of the YouTube crowd was like, why'd you stop doing breakdowns? They're coming. I do apologize.

Slow down a bit. It was a wild weekend. Yeah. Like seven interviews, which is good for everything we're doing here. So I couldn't turn them down. If you want to watch live and talk in the chat live, we are hosting that on Patreon.

Patreon.com slash johnboy media. And I think I'm going to start shouting out new patrons, Jake. And at the end of this episode, all the patrons we already have, which is going to be a mouthful. We'll do it at the end. In the future, I want to shout out all the new patrons at the beginning. They will be sponsoring the episodes for now.

That's what I want to do. What's that Patreon link, Jim? Patreon.com slash John Boy Media. Boom. Boom. All right. Here we go. Let's get right into it, Jake.

The NL and the AL report. You can go first with the NL report. Jake, what happened? Can you tell us? Jimmy, Jimmy, welcome to Atlanta where the players play. They, the bravos, take two out of three from the Nats, including a walkoff in the first game by Bringer of Rain, Josh Donaldson. And Kevin Gossman returns from the aisle, throws a nice start on the final game of the series. The fight in fills win the Sunday game versus Pittsburgh, two to one in 11 innings to take the rubber match of the third. three games set on the road. The Mets, oh my, put on an exhibition on how to lose Jim, quantity three extra innings

losses to Los Hibido Hiantes. They won the other game. So very Mets, we're going to be talking about them. And the Florida Fishies, aka the Miami Marlins, they get swept by the Dodgers, and that's obvious. The Cubs, NL Central, they win games one and two, both with six. six to five scores. How about that?

Drop the final game to the Padres in Wrigley. The Brew crew take three of four in the desert against Arizona. Big Tyler Saladino grand slam on Sunday, Jim. Tyler Saladino, huh? Cards take three out of four at Great American Ballpark against the Reds, including a 12-11 game where they scored 10 runs in the sixth gym. And then in the West, you heard the Dodgers swept, you heard Zona drop three of four,

you heard San Francisco embarrass the Mets or the Mets just embarrassed themselves. The Padres lost a set to the Cubs. The only team missing is my Rockies. They were searching for Rock Bottom. They found it on Saturday after two losses to the Yankees. They salvaged it with a Sunday win. A lot of fun stuff. A lot of fun stuff.

There wasn't any major headlines for many games. And even in the AL, like we have trade talks coming. But last episode, it was. was like the Phillies and Dodgers were heated nonstop. Boone gave us a huge headline. Like we didn't have any of that this weekend, but we did have some, uh,

some interesting stuff. The Cubs win. They need to start running away, but the Dodgers, the brewers take three or four. So that's going to be close. They're only two games back now, uh, in the NL Central.

And I think the brewers are going to be going to be on their tail. If not, they catch up at some point. Yeah. I mean, you're, uh, I mean, when you're in that, two-game flight zone. That's nothing in baseball. That's, I mean, if you play each other,

that could be gone in a day and a half. So the NL Central is getting a little exciting. We'll see who else ends up falling into that race a little bit. Jim, I don't know. It's kind of funny, and I think we're going to talk about it when we get to Enfuego and things like that. There wasn't a huge, a lot of, like, beastly individual performances on offense. No one had like a three homer weekend. Yeah, I was searching. Yeah. It was just, it wasn't, it's not like a bad weekend, but it was just like, here's baseball. No one ran away with like, you need to talk about meat, a team or a player. Really, there's some pitching performances that were really good. We'll get into that.

Just a quick update. The Brewers and the Cubs, they play each other next weekend, Jake. Yeah. So that's, uh, if the Cubs, if the Cubs, uh, the Cubs lose this series, this upcoming series. I don't know who they're playing. The Brewers are playing the Reds. The Cubs are playing the Giants who are really hot. So say the Giants take two of three from the Cubs, and the Brewers take two of three from the Reds.

This next weekend, that Brewer's Cub series, that's going to be a huge, huge series. That's exciting. Yeah, and it's just, I mean, St. Louis is very much there. I don't want any of our Cardinal listeners to turn it off. I mean, they're half a game back in Milwaukee. So the NL Central is kind of fully heated up. The Giants, I mean, that's an incredible other story going on.

The Metscombe met in incredible fashion. Oh, that series is insane. Almost unbelievable. From the Seagulls flocking around in the 16th inning to the drop ball. I mean, it's, it's, what do you do? If you're a Mets fan, what do you? do. So I posted the breakdown this morning on that drop ball by Dom Smith and left field. And Big Baby David, who writes for us over at Johnboymedia.com, he writes a little write-up on all

my breakdowns and gets them on the website. So if you ever want like a full conglomerative of where all the breakdowns were and some extra thoughts, go check out Johnboymedia.com. And I didn't even know this, which is bad on my part, but Dom Smith and Rosario teamed up for the same exact dropped ball last season, 11 months. ago and Cutch scored the winning run for the Giants. They both went back for that ball in between them, ran into each other. They didn't run into each other this time, but that's incredible. It's just so Mets.

I feel bad for the Mets. I would, I don't know if I could be a Mets fan. Oh, interesting. That's a good question. That's me. Is that like the final boss level of being a baseball fan? You have to go through one year as a full Mets fan. Yeah.

I, I, you know, how like when John Carlos Stan got traded from Miami to Yankee Stadium in his opening press conference they asked do you have any do you have any like advice for Marlins fans that have seen all these players get traded away. He was like still be a fan but be a fan from afar for a couple years don't really invest too much into it. That's how like that's how I live as a Mets fan. That's uh I'd say I live that way as a Knicks fan but once that first game tips off I say well maybe they'll get the seventh seed. Yeah same thing. Yeah I don't have I don't have a I have a team that does that to me like you do with the Knicks and Mets fans do. Yeah, it keeps you in check,

I guess. Yeah, and I don't know. We had, I mean, the two top teams in the NL East played each other, the Braves. I mean, they keep passing each test. The Donaldson walkoff helps and Gossman coming off the IL. I'm not sure. I'm not sure what else is jumping off to me. Right now, Philly and St. Louis are half games out of the wild card technically. So that, I, The NL races, I think officially we were wondering, we were doing some of the trade deadline stuff, and we were like, is this going to sort itself out? How's this going to get? We've kind of got our fun teams in a bunch there for sure. Pupadres, the Rockies, the Pirates, the Mets, the Reds, before the break, they all were still somewhat in it. Yeah. I don't, like, I don't want to be mean to

fan bases, but in my opinion, they are dropped. And the, um, Diamondbacks, the Phillies, the Cardinals, Brewers, Nats are the wildcard hunt teams. And I think we will see it slim down and down as we go. Yeah, you wonder, I mean, Arizona, San Francisco, you feel like both, I mean, they're both 500 right now, 100 games in the season. Now that's baseball, Susan. You wonder, we keep talking about how big these final weeks are. And I heard Buster Only talking about it on the Ryan Rosillo podcast.

It is funny that baseball, this is the one time of year, small sample size matters. And I think we'll get into that with Mad Bum start a little bit. But I think for now maybe should we get to the AL, Jim? Yeah. You want to pop over? See what happened? I got it.

You want to give you the intro trombone? Yeah, give me the intro trombone. Usually we have a soundboard guys. My laptop's broken. The soundboard's usually a lot of fun. We currently don't have a soundboard. I'm sorry. So now it's just 50 minutes of me playing attack of the slide trombones.

No, your AL report brought to you by Jimmer, John Boy, for. Wow, nice. All right. The twins and the A split a four-game set. The twins winning the last game via walk-off. The twins were not a real slide, but somewhat of a slide. The walk-off leads them into a series versus the Yankees, which is going to be very nice for them. Baltimore takes two of three from the Red Sox. I repeat, Baltimore took two of three from the Red Sox. Cashner lost a start versus his old club and the pitcher that's kind of somewhat replaced. one of the open spots and the Orioles lineup had a big game, big time yikes for the Sox.

The test that they have coming up is incredible. I'll get to that afterwards. The Yankees played the Rockies, as Jake said, and the Yankees won the first two games. In game two, the Rockies hit the most rock bottom you can. Budblock got ejected in like didn't even put up a fight. It was a sad ejection. They had sad fielding. Everything was sad.

They do come back in the third game and try to start a little better. stuff. We'll see. We'll see how it goes. I still think they're out of it. But at least they came up for the third game. The Royals and the Indians squared off and Cleveland won game three to take the series. That would have been a bad loss for this Indians team who's currently on the hunt, but they win the series, so it's good for them. The Blue Jays and the Tigers squared off in a series that no one cares about. But Detroit avoids the sweep with a 10th inning win over the Blue Jays. Marcus Stroman pitched in front of eight scouts, they say. He is on display.

Vogelback had a big game. Wait, is that the correct? Maybe I put that in the wrong spot. The White Sox and the Ray's squared off, and the White Sox won the first two games. The Ray's just keep going on a little downslide. They blew the save in game two to lose in 11 innings. The Reyes won the last game, though, to not get swept,

but the rays kind of lose some ground. They do lose ground, and they're kind of faltering right now. The Astros swept the Rangers, which the Rangers came out of the break playing terrible. They're looking like they're out of it. The Angels and the Mariners played in the West, tied up one game apiece, but the Angels win game three to win the series,

and that is your AL report. The East is big gap. Yankees are eight games up, I think, now. games up by taking three or four from the raise and then the race losing two games to the White Sox Boston did not help themselves by losing the series so there are 11 games back and the Cleveland's jumping up on the on the twins Jake the twins went two and four in the series Cleveland took one their series there are only three games back now um I'd be a little scared if I was a twins I'd be a little scared because I don't think Cleveland's a joke yeah I think the bigger thing is because

I think the twins, you're still in a good place for the playoffs. You are four and six on your last 10, and you're welcoming the Yankees to town. So this will be a big test and a fun matchup. Yankees twins in Minnesota, that should be some good baseball. Yeah, Cleveland's coming. I don't say a lot of good stuff as people are starting to figure out on this show, but when I said I was buying stock in Cleveland a couple weeks ago, it's adding up. and I think it's hilarious that they still have Trevor Bauer on the trade block.

Like, you just can't do that. I understand you could get a little more for him now than if you trade him in the offseason because you can't pay him. But you are in the playoff run. And like, Kluber's coming back. Like, you can't send that message to your team. Well, do you think they have him on the trade block or just reporters are saying he make it? Because I don't think they've ever had him on the trading block.

I think there was a time when they did because they've openly said as a franchise, We can't resign this guy. Yeah, they say that about all their stars. It's so it's like not a fun thing that their GM constantly says. Yeah, maybe stop saying it to him so much. Didn't he basically say enjoy Lindor because there's no way we're going to be able to resign him? Something along those lines, which I know they're a middle market deal. I don't know.

I won't go on a Cleveland rant there, but they're playing good baseball. There's going to be some fun, some fun AL Central games between them. We talked about that last time. You're right. This Minnesota Yankee series just got a lot more excited. for me. Well, check this out. Check this out, Jake.

The Twins' next series is against the Yankees, right? Right. Tough. Then four games versus the White Sox, which I'll say this, the White Sox have dropped down a little bit, but they just played the race tough. And a four-game set, they're tough. Four-game sets are tough.

I feel like majority of the time they get split. On the other hand, the Indians have three games. versus Toronto, who may be trading pieces away, they might be more preoccupied with who's getting traded away than winning at the current game. And then they have four games versus the Kansas City Royals. So we're two series away potentially from the Indians and twins having a real close race with strength of schedule kind of being on opposite sides here. Yeah, and that's, I mean, that's what's going on in the central. Jim, I think the other team we have to talk about and you're saying there's not a lot of major headlines.

The Rays are in a bad way right now, man. Yeah. Ever since, I know you and their personal Ray's Twitter account have had your fuse in their days, but there's something like that day they came out with the tweet that was like, over the past 162, we got the best record in the East. I think ever since that tweet, they're below 500 and like significantly. I'm not blaming the Ray's Twitter person. I will.

It's the worst. Listen, I don't even say this as a joke. This is my serious voice. A lot of people like to say that what we're doing is fun for baseball. Right. I may be being a bit of a jerkier. What the Ray's Twitter is doing is bad for baseball. They need to fire the person that runs that account.

It's an embarrassment. It's the most cringy thing in the world. And I dislike it very much. It's not a fake feud. I've had a lot of fake feuds in my life. This isn't even a feud. I just really think it's bad. It's feeling feudy.

It's embarrassing. Yeah, I think the other thing that's interesting, and I think we're stumbling into some trade stuff in a minute, and I'll stop saying where I reference it from, because I listen to the Buster-only thing. So if you hear me saying something, I heard it from the Buster Only interview. He's still heavy on,

and a lot of people have been saying this, that the Rays are going to try to cash in their chips and make a big move. And it's because they have a ton of organization, depth and you've heard me rant about it i mean they called up guys like Nate low and uh Brasso i'll finally say it right uh in in the infield there and those guys just got plugged into the middle of their lineup from triple a so their depth is really impressive for me it it just concerns me so much because if you do cash in a bunch of these chips

you could still not make the wild card if you're the race like there's teams there i i will say this and i and this is kind of uh yeah let's just move on to kind of trade targets and traders and and teams that are looking to add and traders traders traders that kind of stuff because jake i was going to kind of talk about the the red socks so one of the headlines um is john morosi said that the red sox are showing active interest in podre's closer kirby yates and blue jays closer ken giles right um i know I'm a Yankees fan, and I think a lot of people will say that we do a good job, being unbiased. What are the Red Sox doing, man?

They just traded for Cashner to put Avaldi at closer, who's never closed before. Cashner has two bad games, but whatever, we're not going to judge the whole. They traded two 17-year-old, so it's not like that's, you know, what a bad trade. No, he's eating innings and doing that. but the Red Sox don't have the money because they want to stay under the tax this year. That's something that's known unless they pivot from that. Which the Yankees did last year. Yeah, yeah, that's fine.

Teams do that now. The Yankees did it last year. The Red Sox want to stay under the tax. Not that Kirby Yates and Ken Giles have a ton of money on the books, but they got money on the books. The Red Sox don't have a farm system. It's pretty depleted. Dombrovsky likes to deplete farm systems, but they won their world serious. So no one's complaining about that in Red Sox land either.

I don't understand the messages that the Red Sox are sending. They did this to make a Voli the closer. I said, like, that's weird because he's never closed before, so you don't know. Now they're saying they're actively looking for closers. I think this was a leaked report by the club to motivate them, Jake, because the next two, six, next four series, the rest of July for Boston, Tampa Bay, raise, then four games against the Yankees, then three games against the race, and then four games against the Yankees.

I'm not the best at math, but that's four plus four is eight plus six is 14. They have 14 games in a row against the teams, against the teams, Jake, that can plummet them. Or they can beat those teams and really say, hey, yeah, we need help. But I think that report is the Red Sox telling the players like, hey, we want. We're still on the hunt to add players, but not necessarily going to because it doesn't really make sense. But I thought the Red Sox, you weighed out like these three games versus Tampa and maybe if you sweep or you get swept, you kind of have your answer.

Yes. I think it'll be interesting to see because, Jim, you mentioned that 14 game sample size or whatever our, whatever number our math intern just gave us. There's eight games before the actual trade deadline day for them. Yeah. So even a smaller sample could dictate things, so you wonder how that goes. And I don't know, Jim. I understand they wanted to get under the luxury tax this year. And who am I to talk?

I mean, we have people that come at us on Yankees Twitter that talk about the Yankees being a cheap organization. And I'm like, what? I grew up for 15 years saying that the Yankees don't buy championships. Anyways, I just think the Red Sox got their title. And when they came out and they let Kimberle walk, they let Joe Kelly go, and I understand it from a business standpoint that you want to get under that luxury tax, at the same time, you're coming off a championship.

And it's so hard to repeat in any sport. And when you come out and send that message that you're already depleted bullpen, you're not replenishing that. and Jim, say if they do make one of these trades, say they go get Kirby Yates. And I don't know what prospects would be in play or any of that. I don't know. It's like a guy like Chavez on the table. I have no idea.

I know there was a top prospect thing that came out recently that had a couple Red Sox guys sneak into the top 100. So maybe they did a good job developing those guys and who knows what the deal would actually look like. But I don't know if those guys are quality prospects or players. I mean, if you're a Red Sox fan, would you rather be sitting there right now and saying like, well, I kind of just wish we re-signed Kimbril and didn't trade away those prospects?

Because in my head, I'm thinking, yeah. Yeah. But I don't know. I think it's a message being sent like that report. I don't know if they can afford, I don't know if they can out bid for Kirby Yates or for Ken Giles. Ken, the Toronto's supposedly asking a lot for Giles and Padres are asking even more for Kirby.

and the Padres and Red Sox have kind of a bad trade history. If you remember a while back, they traded for Pomerance and the Padres didn't disclose medical records and they got in trouble for it. And there was kind of like, I don't know if it was bad blood, but it's a bad, it's a bad history on their record. But hey, if the Red Sox, the Red Sox make moves, who knows the Yankees in 2017, they made some moves that didn't harm them. They traded for the, they traded for, um, for,

David Robertson and Tommy Canley from the White Sox. That was bullpen help and Todd Fraser came along. So that was a team that was trading for the wildcard, the 2017 Yankees. So teams can trade for the wildcard. I don't think there's anything dumb about that because you never know. Yeah, Jim, I think, well, going to Avaldi, you know, you wonder if the Red Sox would go back and do anything differently. It's still too early to judge anything. The guy did incredible things in the playoffs.

Did the Red Sox maybe feel like they had to pay for what? they did to have Aldi in the World Series. I don't know. That's a little sports gossipy. I won't go there because he also has incredible arm town. He's a guy in baseball that people have been expecting to break out for a long time. I think you're right and kind of what you're dancing around is for the Red Sox it seems more likely that they do a smaller move. Like people are talking about the Giants bullpen right now. There's like five guys in the Giants bullpen that if they decide to sell teams would want. And I don't know. It feels like you could see the Red Sox bringing in another arm to say they did that they brought in cashner but the salary cap thing is very real and i wonder when

they do get to c b a's if they almost try to get away from that because let's be honest if the red socks didn't have to deal with the salary cap they'd have kimberl on that team and they'd be running it back and going for it so i i wonder if that's a discussion in major league baseball right now some other teams uh the brewers placed brandon woodruff on a 10-day injured list but it's his oblique, which those are usually longer than 10 days. They were already in the hunt for a starting pitcher, Jake. Now they're going to be even more so. They've been linked to all the big names, Bum, Wheeler,

Sindegard, Will Smith, the bullpen and stuff like that. But the Mets are dumb. Sorry. They should trade Zach Wheeler and Noah Sindegard. Because for three years, they have not, and they've yet to win. They're like,

we're going to win with this staff. They've yet to do it. They should try and get, they try and trade in while they can. And then bum and bumgarner and Will Smith, that's the whole conversation with the Giants. Are they going to trade? I don't think the Giants are going to trade away these pieces, Jake.

They're on a magical run right now. If they win this series versus the Cubs, oh. See, the Giants are kind of a weird place in baseball. The Giants, I lived in the Bay Area for a little, they pride themselves on servicing the fans. and we franchise our guys.

And our guys are our guys. For real. They won three world series, so the city has an attachment. So if they think there's a chance, and Bumgarder knowing him and his connection, like, I think he's going to say like,

no, I'm waving my no trade clause. We're winning here. Let's go to the wild card, and I'm going to start that wild card game, and I'm going to get us into the playoffs. I don't, like me personally, I think that's not possible.

But I think the Giants believe in themselves. They're a proud franchise. I think when they do shop bum, they're going to be kind of upset with the returns they're being offered. I don't think they're going to be that high. And I think they may say, let's roll the dice. Now, that's just my opinion. If you're a new listener, I have no qualms with being wrong ever. I will be wrong a ton.

And when I'm right the few times, I will brag about it and rub it in your face. Oh, yeah. So, ha-ha. But I think that this run that the Giants are on, is crazy right now, Jake. And they're a team that has had magical runs before and that when the pressure's on, they do it

and just like ticket sales of a race and just the city, getting behind them. And that's a town, the Bay Area, where like they want to support their teams. And I think the Giants can really buy into that by keeping pieces right now instead of selling. So who knows? Yeah. I mean, they have serious.

Magic when you see a guy with the last name, Yostremski, hitting a walkoff, that puts a little lead in your pencil. And another guy, Jim, Alex Dickerson has been raking for them. If you remember, we did a little talking giants last week, and I did my weird Brandon Crawford rant, I had a couple Giants fans reach out, and they're like, yeah, you're kind of on it. He has a couple big games, and the other games, it's, I don't know, kind of a little lackluster production.

But Alex Dickerson, man, 24 games. He's hitting 397 right now. 1.258 ERA. So, I mean, almost a month of baseball from the 29-year-old, because I said Sandoval was having the best hitting season, which a couple guys are sneaking up to him, but I think body of work is still Sandoval. So, yeah, you wonder, it's Bochie's last season.

You're right. It is a team that likes putting a good product out there. Yeah. And they're doing good things. So, yeah, I mean, if you could, and I mean, even this next series really is huge. They're 14 and 3 right now with four,

with three walk-off wins, all versus the Mets. And one of their losses was a walk-off loss. They're playing good baseball. They're getting good performances from people that you don't really expect. Like Bumgarner came out and pitched

like his old self versus the Mets. And then they had a rookie face the Mets in game two who shut him down. Didn't he have some crazy out of? Is it Beattie? Tyler Bede. know if he's a rookie. I might be wrong there, but eight innings pitched three hits,

no earned runs. I mean, they got the fever right now, man. When we, we, we watched the Yankee series out there, when was that, May? Yeah. And, and we were like, yo, this is a tough team. They were, they were playing a couple guys who weren't outfielders in the outfield, and it just, it felt like the story was this is, it's going to be tough that this is Bruce Bochie's last season and now look where we are. So I don't know you and I think we had this kind of argument last week that was you were saying if you're a front a smart front office guy, you want to rebuild like that's the sexy thing to do right now. But the giants have always been different than the rest of the MLB. When no one was signing free agents, they signed Cutch, Longoria and

someone else. They've always, like you said, they like putting a good product. They're like one of the last teams I'd expect to tank. So that in theory, so what we just said there would be that Mad Bum was off the table, which always kind of felt weird anyways because the guy doesn't fit in a lot of towns to start. So I mean, does that, I think something interesting I heard, and again, this last time I'm referencing Buster, he's a friend. It won't be, it won't be, it won't be. It's whatever. We met Buster.

He was so nice. So nice. Early nice. Weird. King of winter meetings easily. but Jim, I mean, with the pitching, I think it was interesting that I heard that there's a lot of potential pitchers out there to be had. Like when you say the names, like Wheeler, Sindegard, is Bumgarner still out there, Stroman? There's a lot of potential candidates, Mike Minor, Lance Lynn, we've been doing this game of like, who is available?

And I mean, it feels like it feels like Mad Bum has come off and now the Texas guys are on. The thing that I thought was interesting that Buster said, he's like, there's not a lot of people talking about hitters, and they don't know if it's availability, or I mentioned it to you briefly, but there's kind of this quote-unquote juice ball era in baseball where someone like Kettle Marte has 22 career homers coming into the season, and now he's got 21 this year. So people are kind of scared to make a move on the hitters, because what if the ball is a little juiced and then they take that out? out and now the guy you trade for that you thought was a 25 home or a year guy is back to 11. All depends on years. Like if you're trading for a rental for this year, you take them because this year is screw it, punch it. Yeah.

The other team, the other update I wanted to say is that sources said that Toronto's Eric Sogard and Texas as Danny Santana are among the super utility players drawing inches from the MLB. Those guys always get looked at because you can plug them into multiple positions. they say the Royals have too high of a price on Witt Merrifield, so they're pivoting to Sogarde and Santana. The Rangers just lost a lot of games coming out of the break, Jake. Yeah, the Rangers, and this is now the third time I've said this on every episode of this show.

So sorry if you're sick of it. If you're listening to the first time, the Rangers have so many pieces they can trade. I don't know if they want to, but listen to the names of players that are going to be free agents next. year. Elvis Andrews, he has an option, a player option. As Drubal Cabrera, I don't, again, I don't know if teams would want all these players, but Sean Kelly out of the pen, he's got a club option, so they might keep him. And it's what we just said, Jim. I mean, you're a team like the Giants and Joe Panic really hasn't given you much this year. Do you give someone like it's Drewbel Cabrera a shot and does he get hot? But go on. Hunter Pence, Logan Forsyth, Edison Volk. Again, I don't know if these guys are,

I might be saying some dumb, but there's a lot of guys. here and now Santana seems like the Rangers who this wasn't a win now season anyway if I was a rangers fan it would be the same way I was in 2016 with the Yankees when it was the first time of my life where I was saying trade Beltron trade McCann yeah trade Chapman trade everyone let's get some pieces and that's how you can rebuild real fast so I think the Rangers might be dumping pieces soon they might have a lot of people coming I didn't even say like Mike Minor. There's a lot of guys out there.

Danny Santana, man. I said the Kettle Marte one that I did steal from B.O. I won't say his name. I'll take Danny Santana from him, 72 games. He's got 13 homers. He's hitting 320 with a 352 on base. Coming into this year, he had half of those home runs. He had 13 career home runs.

Now he's matched that this season. If you're the Rangers, this guy can play every position and he's been raking. I mean, even if you get a little bit of value, this was a guy who was a bad season away from, like being a quadruple A player or something like that. So I think you're right. I think Texas, and Texas, if I didn't even say, I didn't even say Lance Lynn,

who just struck out 11 Astros. And he's the only guy to strike out double-digit Astros. He did it twice in a week or some crap like that. If you're the Texas, I think you get on the horn now and you start doing it because like you just said, there's going to be a couple more teams that are like, all right, the D-backs decided to send it in. Like we've got five days before the deadline.

If you're Texas, get in there now, because I think teams are still nervous. We saw it with the Cashner trade. We saw it with the Homer Bailey trade. If Texas fully presents that to the league, man, they could move some pieces and get some really good returns quick, I think. Yep. All right. The Braves are also looking to add some pieces. we may have missed some other teams looking to add pieces.

The twins probably looking to add pieces. But I think that's the gist of the trade talk for this show. We do have the Tigers picked up Edwin Jackson, who didn't get out of the first inning a while ago versus the Angels, and then they put them on the Phantom D.L. But the Tigers, they're not trying to, they literally need someone to eat innings.

So Edwin Jackson's going to go put on an inning-eating display into trade. Now that he's healthy, Jim. Watch you. He ate a lot of innings for the Blue Jays. Tell you that. Yikes. All right. Moving on to the second half of the show.

We have segments. We have awards. We got topics. And this is where we're going to cover more of the action that just happened. Jake, we're going to go for standout performances. You're on the board first. Who impressed you this weekend? Who is your standout performance?

Jimmy, like we hinted towards before, there weren't a bunch of hitters. that jumped off the map. I think you mentioned Mercado had the five-hit game. Our dude, we like watching him play. Jim, for me, this was easy. And it's not a shot at the team he did it against, as some people might say. Asher Wojahowski, Jim.

Wojahus. He's always been one of your favorites, right? Always been a huge Ash Wodge fan. Serious Woj bomb in Baltimore this weekend. He goes 7.1. innings pitch 10 K's one hits Boston uh Boston gets one hit as a team Jim and this is just a good story and you know on on our talking yanks podcast I was pretty hard on Baltimore earlier this year I said they literally have the worst pitching staff ever assembled um they've gotten a little better so

they're fighting me on that so good for you owes and Jim this is where this is part of the beauty of baseball I don't know if Asher woe jahowsky gets a chance on a lot of lot of teams unless they're named Baltimore. And he comes out, man, and he's been twirling it. He's 30 years old now. He spent all of last year in AAA, former first round pick out of the Citadel, Jim. Oh, wow. He was a Citadel guy.

Yeah, 2010. Do you say thank you for your service for Citadel? Yeah, right? No idea. No idea. But Jim, he had a hell of a game. And now with that game, his season looks pretty strong. His strikeouts, his K-rate is super up.

So you wonder if he's one of these guys that leaned into analytics and was looking for his final chance. Or, I mean, back in the day, we'd just say like, the light bulb went off for him, and now he's good. Randall, Asher, Woj. So he did, ooh, would you have gone Randall, Randy? His name, how does he get Asher? It's his middle name, Randall Asher.

Wow, Randash. I don't know. I don't think he had a choice in the matter. Bring back the RA. We got to talk in Yanks listener, supporter named Asher. I met him at the Yankee Stadium. Cool name. Pretty nice. But yeah, Jim, I mean, now he's up to 23 innings,

31 strikeouts in those innings. And without the Orioles, he may have never gotten a chance again in Major League Baseball. Stoked for the guy. Imagine being 29 years old, you have a career ERA of about six in the major leagues, and you spend the whole year in AAA. I mean, you have those whispers and thoughts come into your head and dude throws what could be the game of his life.

I hope it's not. I hope he comes back and he throws a couple more, but could be the game of his life against the Boston Red Sox. Asher, well, it also is interesting because, you know, he didn't replace. So the Orioles had Bundy go on the IL, then they traded Cashner. So Woge was up before the cash trade.

but if you're Boston, it's kind of funny because you're like, we're traded for that guy right now. But not true. Not true. Wow. Because the track records and all that. It was kind of funny. But could have got cheaper price.

He would get much better performance. Anyway, Boston fans would have been irate, I think, if they traded for Wojj. Oh, yeah. They would have. Not after Sunday. That was a joke. They, they, they, they, whatever. My standout performance.

new graphics on the screen. I put both guys right on this live feed, Jake. It's amazing. Is Mike Leak? Freak a Leak. Another guy with a no-hit bid. Woge was no-hit through six innings. Mike Leak, no-hit through seven innings or eight innings?

I think it was eight. I think it was eight as well. But this is the coolest part about this Mike Leak performance. Complete game shutout, Seattle Mariners pitcher. Mike Leak, complete game shutout versus the Angels. one hit. Angels have a lot of good hitters. They got Trout. You ever heard of them? They got Otani. They got pools.

Lestella broke his leg, but he was having good season. One hit, one walk, six Ks. But Jake, the most impressive part about this is his last start before this one was against this very same Angels team and the final line was 0.2 innings pitched, eight hits, seven runs, four earned.

A little better. So he does, he does, doesn't make it out of the first inning and in the very next game he completes the game that's got to be a great feeling that's a great way to just wash that first that last outing right out of your system complete game shut out for mike leek good for him good for seattle i guess i don't know what seattle's rooting for at this point yeah and big uh you you i think you referenced him in the wrong area dan vogelbach had the big game in this game yeah yeah had that six rb i's uh yeah good for mike leek man he's still out there twirling it.

Like you said, the bounce back in baseball, how could you face the same team about a week later and have those kind of results? It's crazy. It's crazy. So good for our guy, Mike Leak, 8 and 8 on the year. 427 ERA. Yeah, that sounds like Mike Leak.

Sounds like Mike Leak to me. And I think the other thing that was kind of cool when he was doing it, Jim, we were caught up in Yankeesland, and they were doing the David Cohn 20, year anniversary of his perfect game. And I don't know. I mean, that's still a fun moment, whether it's no hit or perfect game. If Mike Leak had done that in Seattle, I mean, you become your memory.

Like there would have been the 10-year Mike Leak reunion in a decade, and we'd be talking about that. Who knows if people'd be listening, we'd talk. We'd be talking. Yeah. We'd be talking. All right. Next up, Jake, we have, you want to do some sad trombone?

Slump watch. Your favorite segment. Well, okay. Update me, Jim. I have big news because if you're new listener, we put people on the slump watch and they're on it until they're off of it. Dwight Smith's been on the Swamp Watch. Orioles left fielder, Dwight Smith, Jr.

Tell me something good, Jim. He's been on the Slump Watch a while. You're never going to believe this, Jake. Second game versus the Red Sox. First three at bats. Are you ready for this? First three at-bats, ground-out, ground-out. Fly ball, oh, no, he's going O for again.

No, he faces Darwin-Hernandez who walks him. And that's what he needed. Good eye. At-bat, ninth inning of a blowout game. Colton Brewer for the Sox comes in, and Dwight Smith hits a double. He is off the slump watch. The very next game, he had another hit. It was getting sad.

That was that was. was a sad slump watch. It was getting so sad. The other person, I think Pete Alonzo has come off the slump watch, Jake. Polar Bear. I think he had a home run in extra winnings to win it. Kind of. Yeah, then they blew it.

But I think he then had some more hits later on. Is he off? Okay, in this series, Jake. Pete Alonzo, he went two for 15. with two home runs. I think this still fits the home run derby narrative, guys. I'm sorry? Since the home run derby, Jake,

since the home run derby, Peter Lonzo has four hits, okay? Yeah. In 41 played appearances, and three of them are home runs. Yeah. So is he still on- That's tough. That fits the home-run derby narrative.

We like the home run. I don't know. I wish there was like an on-deck. circle or like a timeout because he's definitely not out but he shouldn't fully be in for a two home run series too you know what jake you're you're beating around the bush he's still on slump watch he's on it he's he's almost he's almost off but i do think you have four hits three of them are home runs maybe you just got a home run derby swing that's what the that's what the hot news folks would be saying it's what the pundits would say who else was here tilsen from the white socks was on

here jake he's like a backup catcher so i don't even think he's worth bringing up that That's so mean. That's so mean, Jimmy. To Tilsen's wife and children who are listening. Jesus. A, he's an outfielder. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's even more.

That's even more shots fired. That's actually kind of the meanest thing you can say. Anyway, he went 0 for 7 this series. They might have even, did they send him down? He hasn't played since July 16th. Oh, yeah. So then, well, he was a defensive replacement anyway, so I don't know.

Let's take him off. No one needs no. Yeah. Sorry, CT. Well, congrats. You're off the Slump Watch. Elias Diaz. Do you have any update on him?

He was on Slump Watch? Elias, my guy from the Pirat. He's a catcher, Jim. So you can make fun of his position in his life for being a pro baseball player if you want to do that, I guess. Would never. Let me bring up the game logs. It looks like he played on the, yeah, he played on the 20. Yeah, he played on the 20.

20th he had a hit. He played on the 19th. Elis, get out of here. Congrats, Elias. You are off of Slump Watch. And the team, the Rockies, the entire team, they lose another series, but they did win the third game. They're in the same boat as Alonzo. Like, they're so close to being off, but they could lose the next two, and then it's like they're on.

So they're still on it. Instantly back on. You'd like to think that they beat the Yankees. They save some of their bullpen arms. They have a happy flight, which I feel like that's a big thing for the Rockies right now. So hopefully they stay off the slump watch. Happy flights are huge in baseball, and that's not a joke. Jordan Zimmerman pitcher for the Detroit Tigers.

He had two outings, seven earned runs back to back, seven earned runs, seven earned runs on Slump Watch. His next outing versus the Toronto Blue Jays, 3.2 innings pitched, six earned runs. Zimmerman, you are still on Slump Watch. Mr. Hot Body, Handsome Face, Lucas Duda on Slump Watch, Jim. Yeah. He's been benched. Lucas Duda had such a bad stretch. Seven for his last 62 in his 16 games.

112 average, 145 on base percentage. He got benched, Jake. Straight up benched him for five out of six games. I do not have Sunday. I'm going to go check Sunday right now. Lucas Duda, Royals. I think he got the start Sunday If he got a hit is he off slump watch

He did He went one for four on Sunday with a double Okay If it was a single I would have said no But the double I'm okay with it So we're okay Well we'll check on him next week Because this is his first week on it

He's still on it for this week Okay yeah there's still a follow up You got Jan Goams on here everyone's favorite Brazilian catcher, Jim, three for his last 19. Yeah, it was tough for Jan. And he's on the nationals who are doing well right now. Tough for Jan. And Jim, this last one made me a little sad because we saw him look good.

John Goams, Jake. He hasn't had a multi-hit game since June 7th. And since his last multi-hit game, he's six. He's six for 52. 1-15 batting average. And he's 0 for his last four games. So Jan Gohm's big-time slump watch. He's in a bad way right now.

And yeah, the last one, Jim, we love a new face to the game. And when we saw him earlier this season, he looked like a lot of fun. That Uki-Kukuchi, Yu-Sai. You say, you say-Kukchi. Well, you say, you sigh. last 10 games, Jim, 7, 8, 5 ERA after having a 3, 4, 3 in the first 11, not enough pine tar? What do you think is going on? He was a big pintar user when he faced the Yankees.

I think this is the league catching up. They made an adjustment. Now he has to make an adjustment. But yeah, his first 11 games, it was looking like, wow, this dude is a real deal. Nice curve ball. Last 10 games, 7, 8, 5, ERA. He's got two good starts in the middle out of the last 10. The rest, some mediocre.

I'm brutal. His last start was pretty brutal. So you say Kukuchi thought he proved himself. He's got more proven to do. And that's normal. I mean, I don't think this is anything to be worried about if you're a Mariners fan. It's so normal for a pitcher to go through the league once, do well, go through a league a second time, do poorly. You kind of, the third and fourth time is when you really see what you got. It's like that pitcher for the Padres that, um,

One, Paddock. What? Paddock? Everyone was so impressed with him. And I was like, it's his first time through the league. Like, you can't, you cannot put stock into first time through the league. Yeah, he's, uh, he's been following it up, though. He's currently 270 R.A.

It's, it's not where he was, but it's still really good. How many games does he have since coming back from the minors? Um, he's got 16 on the season. Let me, let me see if I could find his minor league gap. Um, when he gets it down. So he, I'm missing it because, I mean, it wasn't a big send down. Like, there's a couple 10-day gaps here.

But he's been good of late. I mean, his past four starts, Paddock has been 24-innings pitched, 1-480RA. Yeah, yeah. Maybe he was hurt or something. I don't know. No, I think you are right. It is like people get a scouting report on you and you know. And I always, that's one of the most impressive things to me about guys.

and we're lucky enough to watch a team that's known for their patience and a lot of veteran hitters. A lot of times the Yanks see a team, or they'll see a new pitcher that first time through the order, and you like see them calculating in their head. And then that second time they come up, it's like, oh, I've seen him now, I can do this. And that, I mean, that blows me away.

That people have brains and can use them? A little bit. Can't relate. Yeah. Yeah. Tough. That's a different world for me. Um, anyone else for slumpies?

Do you want to get Enfuego, baby? Yeah, let's go. Let's move on to the, the good stuff. Let's congratulate some guys for having good weekends. En fuego means on fire, baby. Oh, I, I had a couple slumpers. I put them in the wrong spot. Tommy Fam and Tony, uh, excuse me, Joey Gallo.

You guys had some bad, bad series. Get it together, all right? Wow. They thought they were Scott free. Famine Gallo were listening. They're like, thank God they didn't pick up on my slumps. And then you throw them in at the last second. That was incredibly rude.

you. Tommy Fam is listening at the park right now after his one for 18. Thought he got away with it. Thought he got away with it. Uh, no. Jeez. Tray Mancini for the Orioles had a great series. Kind of the professional hitter. Professional hitter on the Orioles right now. Five for 12. So that's a little under 500. Math. Two doubles. Two home runs. Four runs. Four RBIs. 4662 on base percentage in this three game set at Fenway, I believe. Good for Tray Mancini. Next one that I have is fun, Jake. Albert Pujohos has been on fire since the break. I know machine. I just Albert. 440 batting average since the break. 444 on base percentage 1.244 OPS.

And he was on my borderline hot watch and Fuego last week. Yeah, man. And he's driving in big runs. So, I mean, good for Albert, man. That's awesome. And I feel like every two weeks he does something cool. He's given a fan something. Albert feels like he's in a great spot in his life right now.

Like there was a couple years there where baseball turned on him because he was getting paid too much. And he can't run. He can't move. Yeah. Now it just seems like he's kind of in a happy area. So good for Albert. Well, he graduated from like two years where you're like, you're old, dude. You suck.

Yeah. And then there's two years after that where you were like, wow, you're still playing and doing decent? I thought you were dead. And then you get excited for him. That's like the cycle. How did he do in the series? Because they did get no hit. It looks like he might not have played in that game.

Was he in the no hit game? He did sit that game. Smart. Wow, that was smart of him. Coach. That's really smart by Albert. I'm going to take this one off. Leak is looking like you know.

No, it's funny. He was probably. pissed he didn't play in that game because they knocked leak around last time. And then they started no hitting. And he was like, all right. Day off, baby. Yeah. So in the two games, he did play versus Seattle.

He went four for six with a home run, a walk, and a sack fly. Good job. Yeah. My guy that I, I mean, if I can talk about him, I'm pretty much going to talk about him. Ramon Luriano, Jim, he, you mentioned we're not great math guys. Eight for 16, that's batten 500 in your last four with a homer in there. Is center fielder for anyone that doesn't know Ramon Luriano is? You know I'm a sucker for centerfield and third base.

Those are the two positions that if you can play them special, it genuinely speaks to my soul. And any Ramon Luriano highlight, if you haven't seen him, I mean, just go check it out what he does with his glove and his armor blast. Dude, Jimmy, this guy can hit too. He's got an OPS in the 8s for the center field. He's one of the best center fielers in the game. He's 24 years old.

Or excuse me, he turned 25 on July 15th. Happy late birthday, Ramon. And Jimmy went to your favorite college, Northeast Oklahoma A&M. Wow. Yeah, wow. I've got to get back there for a game sometime. So yeah, Jim. I mean, if you're going to give me a...

What was that Northeast Oklahoma A&M? Northeast Oklahoma A&M? Oklahoma A&M College. I was pissed when they turned me down. That was my number one. So, yeah, if you're going to give me a defensive center fielder that can put some games together, there was a 16th round pick out of NOAMC,

yeah, Poppy Patron's going to like that guy. He has had nine multi-hit games in July. He's played 15 games, nine of them. He's had more than one hit. I think we And three of them He's had three hits That's impressive

I remember when he Kind of came up with the A's And he felt that It's rare in baseball You see a guy That can like own a game And he's one of those guys When he has a big day

I mean he's going to affect Every aspect of the game So I love I love watching me some Ramon Luriano Next up Who Got Mad Who Got Mad?

Who got mad, Jim? Not a lot of madness this weekend. Bud Black got ejected, but he barely got mad. Yankees game. Is a check swing didn't go, Ianetta's way? Was it dead? It was more sad than mad. It was, it only, I did a breakdown on it, it's

sad. Catelle Marte. Kettle? Cattel. I think it's Catell. Me too. Kettle would be weird. Ketel Marte got ejected. Struck out, was arguing pitches earlier in the bat he didn't like. Same exact thing with Kevin Pilar. Kevin Pilar hit a walk off, then gets ejected. I don't know if it was the next day,

but in the same series, he had a walk off, right? And got ejected. I don't know if you hit a walk. I'm blank. I think he did. But anyway, Pilar got ejected. Curveball above the zone?

Terrible call, Jake. He was like flabbergasted. And again, it was like, it was strike one or strike two. He grounds out. Oh, I did see that. It was a really, really bad pitch. So Pilar got mad.

Three ejections. Nothing, none were crazy enough to, you know, get big headlines, but they happened. They got mad. Yeah. I guess, and hey, we've been, we try to stay as new. I don't know if this is mad, but our dude Aaron Judge, and I think it's something that should be talked about because you had perfect images of it.

Aaron Judge gets the most low strikes called on him in Major League Baseball. I actually think Matt Carpenter has him beat, but it's a lot more games, but Judge gets called out on a low fastball, like oddly low. Like, this couldn't, this shouldn't be happening. Like, we should have a challenge. flag or something. Anyways, that's for a rainy day. He comes out his next step bat and he actually raised his pants a little.

So the strike zone looked a little different. And you had the image of it. It was awesome. Yeah. Under the knees, a lot of guys wear their pants high to show where the knees are. Yeah. And they're at bats. And then he raised him.

Hit a home run in the next step bat, but also got another one. I think we should have a wrong alert on the scoreboard. Wrong. Just shame the umps. Oh, I like that. Just on the big scoreboard in center field after like that strikeout, they show the replay. And then they just go wrong. Yeah, why don't teams do that?

I think the umpires would quit. I think they could quit on the spot. Perfect. I know some robots. A big gong. Gong. Wrong. Gotta start doing that.

Yeah, wrong alert. There was no call-ups, no debuts, but we did have some walk-offs, Jake. Like we said, the San Francisco Giant. walked off three times. We had one series with three extra inning walkoffs against the Mets. So we'll actually, we'll just call it two. You get one taken away. Yostremski hitting a walkoff.

I mean, that's just so cool. Dwight Smith, not catching a fly ball, not as cool as a walkoff. Not Dwight. Dom. Dom. D. Smith, excuse me. Two Smith left-fielders, though. D. Smith.

Kepler walked. off for the twins and Donaldson had a basis loaded shot that like in the in the box score is a single but it was like counts as a single for the walk off of the braves I think there's one or two others that I'm forgetting but uh we need your help truited saying walk off watch slump watch who got mad need your help guys and that that donaldson one was cool because he got jammed on that pitch but he just had such a nice swing on it and he's so powerful that it it got going but like it hit a part it hit a part of the bat that some Sometimes I feel for other guys, like the short stops catching it and his cleared the left field. He's been good.

He's in a lot of months, a lot of home runs this month. He's been good. I think he was on last week's, last week's in Fuego or two weeks ago. I bring her a rain. It might have been my player of the week. I don't know. I just give myself fake slaps on the ass sometimes. No.

Well, speaking of awards, that's the next segment. Jake and I each get to give out one award that we think is deserving. I went first last week, Jake. What's your award? Jimmy, my award. You know, I've been kind of caught in this musical trap with awards lately. I'm giving out the ZZ Top Award, Jim. Okay.

The ZZ Top Award. Well, I was going to say any guesses. We can't do that game here because it's all of Major League Baseball. It's pretty tough. I'm giving out the ZZ Top Award because he's got legs and he knows how to use them. Jim, Ronald Akuna. a Coon Amatown Jr. Four-year Atlanta Braves, the young All-Star, one of the best young players in baseball.

Jim, we mentioned at the start of this, there wasn't too many, like, crazy standout performances. Like, no one was there and were like, wow, they had four home runs this week, and that's insane. One of the biggest things that jumped off, Ronald Ocunia Jr., he had four stolen bases, four swipes, nobody else in baseball had more than two. Only two guys had two. Only three guys in baseball this weekend had two or more steals. Akuna Jr. has four. He also has a home run to boot with it. He goes 471, 550 batting average, a 1.256 OPS in his last four.

And, I mean, he's just one of the best young players in the game. So if I get a chance to talk about him, I'm going to take it. And, man, these Braves, he's got a 3.4 war on this season. And, man, Jim, I was hinting towards it because we, We were talking about how good the nationals could be if you get them in a playoff series with their pitching. These Braves are kind of just rolling. Like we talked that the NL Central rate is heating up.

As of now, knock on wood for our Braves fans, they just continue to keep that five, six game lead and just chugging along. Can you sing the Zizi Top Leg song? So we get it. She's got legs and she knows how to use them. Nice. It's a little something.

Good stuff. It's all right. Zizi Top's not my vocal range. It's, I don't know. It's very humid. Oh, it's hot in here. All right. My award is the Butterbean Award.

The Butterbean Award. Oh, my God. What was that reaction? I mean, it's, it's a big award. You don't just give out the Butterbean Award, you know? Do you think people don't know who Butterbean is? I think if you did a Butterbean breakdown, you'd have a good time. I don't know how well-known Butterbean is anymore.

Butterbean was a big boxer. Like a big boxer. Big boy boxer. Butterbean Award goes to Luke Voigt. Wow. Okay. Took a 90 mile per hour fastball to the lips, to the kissa, and ate it. Took his base, went the first.

Next up, I hear he's requesting. a punch in the face from butter bean to prove he can eat that as well. Also, Luke Boyt kind of looks like butterbeams like nephew. Okay, I like that. Yeah. Yeah, you have to be careful with that kind of thing. But yeah, he's a relative of butter bean that got more meat, a little less butter. If you don't know what butter bean looks like, it's a must Google.

I'm guessing a lot of people do. But yeah, Luke Void basically took a butter. being punched to the face survived you know who didn't johnny knoxville got knocked out in that store in that jackass segment oh yeah wow i wonder if people remember him from that um and yeah i don't know do we even give the luke voight spiel if if you don't know check him out nope we're moving on to everyone's favorite segment uh-oh elevator talk if you're new to the show two minutes we put on the clock we're going to spin a wheel it's going to land on a random team we're going to talk about that team for two minutes.

Jake will go to whatever websites he goes to. I'll go to whatever websites I go to. If you're stuck in an elevator with a fan of this team, you will now have fodder. You will be able to talk to that fan and ask them some questions. When you leave that elevator, they're going to be like, wow, I met a really cool baseball fan in the elevator.

Yep. All right, let's spin the wheel. Spin it, baby. The Atlanta Braves. Did we talk too much about them? Oh, I feel like we did a lot of Braves. It's your call, man. I'm leaving it on you.

I'll spin it again and we'll choose one of the two. Okay. The Yankees. We're doing the Braves. We're doing the Braves. The Braves, like Jake said, I think Jake's quote was like, they keep passing tests. Right. They keep saying, like, is this team too young?

Are they for real? They have a good veteran presence with McCann and Freddie Freeman to guide the young guys because they got a lot of young guys. Ozzie and Acuna is the guys you need to know. And Jimmy, how about your boy Young Thick? Oh, Young Thick, Austin Riley. Yeah. He's been.

I mean, they've got a young core man, Akuna, Austin Riley, Albies, Dansby Swanson having a good year. Freddie Freeman's still doing it at 29. Jim, I know what you'd love about this team. Everyone's got an OPS. Dansby Swanson's at 798. Every other starter is an eight or up. There's not a lot of dead outs in that. lineups. And that's huge when it comes to postseason baseball. When you're not giving up easy

outs, that makes you as tough as you can be as a team. Fun question you can pose is how many players you think end with 20 home runs. Right now they've got three. Freddie, Acuna and Donaldson, all have three over 20. Dansby Swanson's at 17. He'll probably get there. Austin Riley's going to get there. He's at 16. And Ozzy Albi's at 14. So it's like you think Ozzy's going to get there? You think Ozzie can pop 20? Okay, oh, I like that. You'd be like, ah, Alby's having a good year. Yeah, man, I'm trying, and then we did, Kevin Gossman came off the IL.

He's had a rough start, and he's always, people have always liked him as a pitcher more than his numbers have come out, and his FIP and ERA would tell you that. You could go there. Mike Soraka having a hell of a year. And Jim, how do you pronounce Teheran? Tehran, baby. Ooh, what's up? This is good elevator stuff.

Who do we think the Braves are targeting If you had to pick a name out of a hat Well, they've been linked To Stroman Okay The Braves GM is the ex Blue Jay's GM And he drafted Strowman

So boom, there you go There's your conversation In the elevator You know, our GM He's the same GM that drafted Stroman They likes them That's when the elevator hits the floor Like you proved you knew the guys

You knew Akuna, you knew Albi's knew Freddie Freeman, then that elevator hits, you drop the GM, who he drafted and who they're trading for, boom, elevator talk. Yeah, they already picked up Kikele, Jake. Yeah, true. So that's something else like, oh, you think picking up Kikele was the right move? It was pretty cheap, so it was. And he's been pitching well of lately, man, 358 ERE, ERE 37 innings, the ERE for Dallas

Kekle. His last game isn't the most desirable 5.2. five runs, four earned runs, but three seven innings pitch, two earned runs or less before that. So he's looking like he's going to be of use and helpful to them going in the future. So there's some brave stuff to talk about. That was Braves. That was talking Braves, baby. Talking Braves, baby.

All right. Does that end the show, Jake? Any last words you want to say? I mean, big series that we're looking forward to. Giants and the Cubs, that can really, really change some things. Cleveland and Toronto. Cleveland needs the win because Yankees are playing Minnesota and then Boston and Tampa Bay playing each other is huge too.

Yeah, and I guess the couple as the fringe dwellers wear down. I mean, the Giants, man, they're kind of the team to watch in baseball right now, which is insane. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, if the Giants can have a good series versus the Cubs, if they can beat the Cubs, I don't think they're selling any pieces. I think they're going to bank on magic and give back to the fan base.

And by the way, if you're someone outside of the NL West, if you're just a baseball fan, you're rooting for the Giants, right? Because this is fun. It's fun. If they go on a magical run, it's fun. I think the odds are stacked against them, but I think that they're the team that's most likely going to believe in small odds with the guys they have and what they've done in the past.

Did I mention the Buster-only interview I listened to? I think so. Okay, good. the A's are playing Houston White Sox Marlins Hey in A's land they're saying that's a big series Yeah Yeah

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