Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 89 | Best Combo 5-tool Player in the Bigs, Cole vs Votto & more twitter questions

Episode Date: February 20, 2020

Live from Tampa (Plouffe in LA) we answered some twitter questions. New Rules. Best 5 tool combo player, you get 1 tool from a guy. A team full of Coles vs a team full of Vottos, who wins? And more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Welcome to talking baseball. We're joined with Trevor Plouffe. As always, we are in Tampa. Plouf is in L.A. Let's answer your questions. All right. What's up, everybody? Welcome to talking baseball.

Thank you for tuning in. We appreciate it. A little behind the scenes before we start the show, Jake and I are in an RV park at Tampa. It's 9 a.m. It's a nice, cloudy, overcast day down here. And Trevor is on my first. phone, FaceTiming in from L.A., 6 a.m. for you.

Yeah, you guys have really found your calling at that RV park, huh? It's a little scary that Jake and I both had a moment where we were like, wow, this is a cool thing. Do they have those in New York? Can you find one? I'm sure they do, but just not part of my life ever. I'm finally home. It feels good. It feels good to have a home. Yeah. I love it. I drove the RV yesterday, Trev.

Oh, no. Well, I think that's good. I want you guys all to experience before I get there. Yeah. I feel safer. Well, Bill had to go to the, we did the live event, so Bill had to go early, so someone had to drive. But it wasn't as scary or as difficult or as different as I thought it was going to be.

So, but you can drive all you want. Jake's commandeered shotgun, so you guys will be the crew up there. Yeah. Yeah, Jake is not allowed to drive. I'm constant shotgun. Okay. I'm okay with that. Yeah.

When I'm not driving, I'll be in the back, hammering beers and just, you know, having a good old time. Yeah. That's what you do on an RV. We have beers. We haven't drinking them yet. Enjoy your white claws, Trevor. You know, it's in a motorhome. It's not drinking and driving because it's in your home.

Yeah, you just can't drink up front because that's the car. That's that. We'll double check the rules on that. None of that sounded right. That sounded right, but I bought it. I'm in. All right, so we decided we're going to answer a bunch of Twitter questions today. And Trev's got a whole nice list.

They blew up your Twitter, you were saying? Like 100 responses? A lot of Twitter questions. My Twitter feed was horrible yesterday because you answered a Houston Astros question on it. And then after that, my Twitter was unusable. Oh, that's really referencing. Yeah. Yeah, this took a little bit of digging to get back to the actual questions.

but I got them and I think there's some gems in there. So we can just get it going, right? Give us the gems. Gems only. All right. Well, first one's from this big old idiot at talking Jake. He said, who would you rather set up a close family member on a date with? John or Jake?

So is that a question for us? I guess that's directed towards me. That's a good question. That's directed towards me. Yeah, that's a good question. Thanks for calling. And I would... I would say both of you.

I'm happy with both of you guys. Well, okay. I was going to say, before you answer, let us know who you're setting us up with. Like, is it your terrible cousin or your great cousin? I'm playing the question like it's like one of my favorite cousins or whatever. Yeah, yeah. At first I thought no Jake,

because I felt like he's almost like a sexual deviant or something. That's just like the vibe I get from you. Modern age Nick Ponto, yeah. And John's kind of like, you know, I feel like he treats my cousin really. Yeah. But maybe I'll switch it and I'll say John with my guy. There we go. That's went well.

Good, thanks for asking that question. Good plot twist. Way to go. Thanks for answer that question, Jake. Good plot twist. No problem. On to the next one. Yeah.

I like this one. This is from at Gardi underscore party. Gardy Party. And he said, yeah, Garty Party. He says, what are you? you're way too early predictions for home run derby champ and all-star game MVP.

Oh, okay. Home run derby champ, it's always a new name. Like Judge said he's not going to do it again. Stan's already won. He's not going to do it again. I think a lot of the big guys, although there is a lot of money attached to it now, but I still think it's to showcase the young talent.

And here's my, yesterday we were talking about the All-Star game, and we were talking with some reporting, down here in Tampa and like who's going to go from the Astros you know and like will the other players want to be in the same room as them and my answer was you know what they'll just have Jordan Alvarez go no one's going to be bad at him he's a rookie so I also have Yordan Alvarez winning the home run derby it's not bad you took my answer just so you know out of all the guys we had the same one yeah that's crazy that's awesome well I was thinking along those exact same

lines, you know, Dusty's going to be the manager of the All-Star game. Yeah. So they have to send somebody to the game. And I don't, I know they changed the rules in the All-Star game recently because before the whole Kansas City thing, when they voted in every single player that was on the Kansas City roster, I think they've changed it. But I thought that would be actually really hilarious. If Houston, like, rallied and just, like, did a crazy, like, voting campaign and got all those

guys in the All-Star. game, like people around the league will be so pissed, but I think it'd be hilarious. So maybe they will do that. Yeah, I think the voting is a sham. But I'm cynical. It is. Most cynical people, but I think if you do a fan vote for the All-Star game and you think that that's how it gets picked, I think you're a little naive, to be honest.

Yeah. Jake, we got. You ignore all the daddy's conspiracy theories and then you get dropped casual bombs like that because you are right, and we're all puppets. I think you guys are ignoring Vladito. I think Vlad went last year. He put on a show, but he was technically the loser. So the whole story will be like, oh, you know, they'll get him in because he's Vladito.

And then they'll be like, oh, well, you know, last year he came in, he burned himself a little early. Watch for him to conserve himself and win this one out. That's your best mark to share. It's a home run derby. Like, it's Vlad Jr. He's a monster. So I wouldn't be shocked if he does it. Also, I think are we ignoring, it's in L.A., right?

It's in L.A., yeah. So, I mean, if we're talking early MVP candidates, you've got to go with someone local, maybe Walker Bueller. He pitches three shutout to start the game, and we say, yay, L.A. Okay, I like that. Yeah. Oh, I have a huge Walker Bueller fan. I have, I have it.

I figured it out. Okay. It's going to be. Reapy Deliver. Roodster Gratterol. closes it out as a dodger. Oh, wow. He gets the save, and then he gets the All-Star MVP,

and the Red Sox have to just kiss his feet. You know, the 2014 game was in Minnesota, and Glenn Perkins got to close the game out to Kurt Zuki in his hometown stadium. Like, he couldn't have scripted it any better. It was one of the cooler moments I've seen on the field, so that'll be really cool for him how's Glenn doing you would love Glenn Glenn would fit in like very well in this situation okay okay pick him up and actually

John you and Glenn are kind of like resembled like there's a little of resemblance there ugly guys yeah I can actually brings us to our next question what what a great segue that I just did right there awesome business um I got to find the question because it's here somewhere I want to get the guys uh Twitter hands on here. There's some hilarious questions here. I don't have his Twitter handle, but one person asked, when there's a movie made about the Astros cheating scandal, which actor will play John Boy in the movie?

Yeah. Yeah, it's got to be, I mean, there's got to be is there like a, just a young, short, gray-haired guy? Maybe they make it. They can, they can do. The hair. They can spruce me up. You can do the hair. Are you going to play yourself? No.

No. I'm a great actor, but no. I think it's going to have to be, someone's going to have to, uh, like downgrade themselves. You know, like you get like a Zach Efron and then he gets in ugly or ugly.

No, no. You're starting with Zach Ephron. No, no, he'll be too old. No, I'm saying. My point, my point was any, any, any actor is going to have to like, you know when, uh,

Christian Bale was the fighter, and he, like, made himself gross for the role to get into character. Right. That's what they ought to do. Well, yeah, that's been known from the start. You didn't have to clarify that. We just need that person. They don't exist yet.

The movie's not going to be made for 10 years, so the guy's, uh, he's currently 15 years old. I like, uh... He said that guy for a lot. Yeah, okay, dude. An ugly version. For any of my golf fans, I could see Graham McDowell.

He's got that look. I doubt he's getting into acting. Yeah, I don't know. I could see a Kristen Whig type situation. I think that would be a nice role for her to achieve. Those are the two names that came to mind. Does Jack Black have a teenage son? I think so, actually.

That's a good one. So Jack Black's teenage son. I was going to say Jason Bateman. That's so nice of you. Yeah. Thank you. He has another Jason Bateman? Yeah, he's the best.

He's a great. Yeah. He's like a good actor and funny. Yeah. He's no fucking Zach Espin. I'd rather Jason Bateman play me. That means people will like me in the movie. He's never played a lot of character.

Let's move on to the next question. See. By the way, that one was by At Solin Media. Thank you for your question. Thank you. Thank you. Let's get a little more serious now. I like this question.

I think we'll all kind of have some different answers here. This is at 33 golfer at prediction. of what division gives us the tightest race. Let's start with Jake. Division that gives us the tightest race. So are we going to say like the top two teams fighting at the end or a little more like it has to be between three or four? Because I guess I think the answer for me is actually the NL East.

Okay. Like I think there are some fun ones with the top two. But the NL East, man, I think they're going to go four deep. I mean, you probably get one of those teams that gets injuries really bad. and it just doesn't happen this year. But, I mean, all of those teams are good and going for it and on the up and up. Philly, they bring in Girardi and a lot of dudes. I mean, the Mets, this is like their year.

And if they don't, I think things get ugly in Metsland, which they tend to do pretty quickly. The Braves, they were challenging the Dodgers for the second best team in baseball. And then the nationals are you defending champs? So I don't know that NL East is going to be fierce. I'm a big, and Trev, I think this is the first time I've said this in front of you. Wow. I'm a big, toughest thing, generic line,

toughest thing in doing sports is to repeat as champion. I mean, right now, I'd probably take the Nats. I'd put them in the fourth place in the NL East. A jerk. That's tough. You know, they still have Max Scherzer, right? I know, but he's starting to get a little older. And Patrick Corvin.

He's had some injuries. I mean, I don't know. They also lost that. You better hope he doesn't see this video, buddy. Good. I hope he does, and I hope he shoves. But, I mean, they also lost Rendon, who's, like, one of the, if not the best player in the NL last year. They got Starlin Castro.

Yeah, and they replaced their whole infield is just old guys that can play second or third base now. I don't know. I don't know if that's the formula. Was the question, like, close-in? just like most teams in it? I read you the question, Jim. It was tightest race this season. Yeah, it is.

Oh, Titus race. All right. Well, the guy asking this is a big fan about her. She's also a Cubs fan. So I think he's hoping we don't or do say the NL Central because we do. But I'm going to flip-flop it and say I think it's the AL Central. I think the White Sox are going to give the twins a tough time. and I think the Indians will stay in it for a little bit.

But I think the White Sox and Twins should be a fun race down at the end, and I don't know if second place gets a wild card spot. Yeah, I don't believe in the White Sox. I don't know what it is. It's just, you know, memories of, you know, a long time ago when I was playing. But I think the twins run away with that division. I do. You would say that, bias.

I also think the Yankees win the East. We can all shout out things like that. that's fine i think i think so too i'm i'm going to go with the west the a l west and i'm dreaming for some reason i'm dreaming that the angels are going to like figure some starting pitching out and and like make a run at this thing and if they do that then you have that kind of like a three-headed monster there with the angels the a's and the and the astros i think that'll be an awesome race because you know towards the end of the season we're all going to be looking to see like where the a assos are going to be, are they going to make the playoffs?

And I think pretty much everybody in America, besides the people that are in my Twitter mentioned yesterday, will be rooting against the Astros. Do you have someone from the AAL Central making the wildcard game? I have, I think the raise and then, like you said, Angels or A's, I think those three teams were racing for the two spots. So that's why I think if it's close at all for the Central, it's all up for grabs.

So it'll be, you know, there's no second place winner. I mean, again, I think the twins is the same thing as the Whitefax. They're going to go as far as the starting pitching. You know, the White Sucks have some good starting pitching. They do. But they need Lucas G. Lita to go out there and be worth six wins again like he was last year. And I hope he does that. But they have to have someone to follow him up as well.

Like, Kikl, he's okay. If I'm Kikl, I don't want to face the Twins line. I'll have to tell you that much. Wow. Wow. I think Kikl's a great pitcher. Tyco is a great pitcher. He's one of those guys where you think you're going to hit a home run every time you face them,

and all of a sudden you're over for. I've never had that feeling stepping into the play. I have, but he's very blind. That's a good question. We all have different answers. Yeah, that was good. The ALS, man, I was tweeting at their new mascot, but Dallas Braden with the A's, man.

The A's are the most disrespected team this offseason. They've won 97 games the past two years. They have two huge pitching prospects coming up in Pook and Luzardo. Puck. Yeah. They've got Murphy should be behind the dish for them. Noisy's a guy that might jump in at second base. They low-key have one of the best in fields in baseball.

And they have to be the ones throwing their arms up around all this Astros stuff saying, someone talk about us because it's all Yankees and Dodgers. They're used to that there. You know, they love the underdog car. They kind of relish that role. So, yeah, I mean, I love them. You know my affinity for Matt Chapman. They're great.

I think they're going to be in the playoffs again. Hopefully they win the division. Who's everyone's team in the NL Central? Because that also would have been a fine pick. Yeah. So the parody around the league is great. And hopefully it stays that way. I don't like when the races are delivered or decided.

Yeah. Like, super early. Like, it's obviously much better for baseball when things come down to the last week. NL West. We'll see how that goes. NL. West? I mean, that's the one we all know. Yeah.

The NL Central, I actually, I hope the Reds get rewarded for going all in. Yeah, me too. We'll see how that goes. I think there's a lot of unknown. A lot of guys, you know, for teams, there's a lot of kind of movement around the league. So, you know, it turns out. This next one is just for you guys. This is from at Liam O'Brien.

Oh, my brother. Who would win in an arm wrestling match? John Boy or Jake Jake easily We got There's footage There's content out there That was 10 years ago

But you'd still win today as well That was easier than I thought I thought you guys might debate A little bit more than that No I have no pride in that Pure power Do you think you could take me

No I think you could I'm not a good I'm not a good arm master I don't think our arms would even line up Yeah yeah That's where I always get lost In the arm wrestle

People start throwing their bodies, people start twisting and stuff. We're short, a little arms. My arm's very compact. I think that's good for arm wrestling, right? I have an embarrassing story. My father-in-law and I one day decided we wanted to arm wrestle. And I was, he was off the off-season, I was working out, doing really good about myself.

I'm going to fucking slam you, Dave. and so we we line up on the kitchen table be locked on or locked cans whatever the terminology is and I'm like all right here we go and boom I get fucking stuck in a stalemate with this guy he's like 60 years old dude and here I am in my athletic prime and we ended up like sailing out and I was so embarrassed like my wife was watching. So now you understand that he didn't, he didn't not win. He just made sure you didn't beat him.

Yeah. He could have slammed you if he wanted, but, you know, your mom's there. There's a lot going on in that dynamic. The ego was bruised that day. And I think there's some old. I think about, actually, I think about that off. There's, there's obviously some old man muscle involved there, but I'm also going to say that he's got like,

he's got some sort of injury that his arm doesn't even go that way or anymore. So I think you had the power. Thank you. You were just, like, pushing against a wall that just wasn't going down. I mean, it's more upsetting that he didn't beat you. It's more, I think if I'm you, I walk away, more upset that he just toyed with you and was like, this is nothing. It really felt like that.

I remember it very vividly. It was like a bad dream where you're trying to go somewhere when you can't. You just stuck. Thanks for writing that in. All right. This is a good question. This is a good one. I like this one.

This is from At the Real 2-8. He said, skill set-wise, build the best player in the MLB using different skills from different players. All right. So I think how we should put this is,

let's go to five tools. We'll finish with that. Tagging's not included in that one. You know what you can ask? I'm going to just plug myself a little bit after I just told you guys how I second arm wrestling. Juby Terra,

catcher for the Rocky, wins, every damn team. He'll tell you I'm the best, I was, sorry, I was the best tagger in MLB

until hobby came along. Oh, wow. Wow. Shameless plug. Yeah, you tagged me. Anyway, who do you got? Let's start with,

let's start with you, Jake. Let's go, hit tool. I'll go, ooh, the hit tool. DJ LeMay. Yeah,

that's, that's tough. After watching DJ LaMayhew for a year, You know what? I'll I'll I'll I'll I'll ask some D for you Trevor and I'll give a I'll give a sleeper pick How about Arias from the Twins? That dude won my heart over man. He's got this old school approach and I remember the Yankees pitchers.

You have all these lights out bullpen guys. He'll just follow it off like he's he's it's not an impressive, powerful hit tool like He's about to say with LaMayhew. But Arias, man, he won my heart over. It's old school and like you just can't. can't get it past him. I love that pick. That's a great pick.

I've watched him, and he played discipline. It's what comes to mind when I think of him. And, you know, that bat-to-ball contact skill. He's a, I mean, I don't want to say Rod Caru, but something like that, you know? Highest batting average of any player with 300 at bats last year, something like that. Okay. Hit two. Arise.

I love that. Jim, let's do. Let's see power. I mean, straight power. The Yankee mind's trying to pull him in. Yeah, yeah. And then I thought of, like, Nelson Cruz, he's getting old, but, like, he can still hit bombs.

But then we have... Then we're just picking twins. Twins for Trevor, yeah. We're picking twins to make Trevor happy for once. I'm not a twins guy anymore, right? I am a unbiased, stateball media guy. Um, power. I don't know, man.

Give me, uh... You love Alonzo. Yeah, you know what? I'll do Alonzo right now. Or Yonder? No. Look, if you want to fly your Yankee swag? Flyer with Yankees flag?

I think it's Judge. I mean, Judge, if anyone's ever watched him do BP. I mean, there it is. I mean, Judge, Judge consent. Judge is, you know, like a traveling circus back in the day. They would get, like, all the oddities. Like, that's what Judge's batting practice is. He hits with Stanton.

I've seen it. I mean, I didn't, I heard a lot of people talk about it like this until, and I was like, shut up. That's not that crazy. And then I saw it in Oakland. He put a ball into the suites, the second level suites in center field. No one should ever be able to do that. And he just does it swinging easily. Okay, so pick and judge.

Yeah, pick and judge. But Pete Alonza is a good one. All right. Hit Tool, we got Araya's power we got, Judge. I'll go decent. And this is a tough one for me because I, you guys know, I just already alluded to it earlier. I love Matt Chapman.

I think he is the best defensive player in the game. But I also love me some center fielders. I think that's my favorite position. Loreano. I mean, Jim, let me answer the question. If I'm the same wavelength today, I love it. I love KKK. I do.

I think the guy goes and gets it. And I just, I didn't, I knew he was good. Then I played with him and I got to see it, you know, up close and personal. And they were just balls where you're just like, all right, you know, that's in the gap. And all of a sudden, this guy is just out of nowhere. So I have a lot of respect for him. And I think that if it wasn't Chapman, I'm going to kick it.

And I think he just has it kind of all. So he's got the. claddy glove, which is a huge flex. Like, gold glove is, I've always said that the gold glove is the coolest award you can win as a player because every day you show up to the field, you just flex. Yeah. It's like if you got to carry around your silver sluggers every day. Like you have, like, you have the gold patch on your glove.

And everybody else has this bullshit, like red patch, like sticking out like a sore thumb. Like, you suck. And so he has the plaiddy. Plattie, that's pretty big. That's awesome. It's amazing, dude. I think some people... I'll go to Kiermeyer.

All right, some people are going to be set. Aronado probably didn't get much love at that, though, as well. Oh, yeah, you just pissed off all Rocky's fans. I don't care. And a reminder that Jim... I think Matt Chapman... I think Matt Chathamins better than Aronauta.

I'm not a Kiermeyer hater. You were a Kiermire hater, and you can't argue that. No, but you're delivering that in a bad way. I've never disrespected his defensive game. I'm obviously going to hate you in a bad light. I've never said he was bad. I just think he's a hot dog, and we're going to talk to him, and I'm going to say, hey, do you think that you are a hot dog?

Yeah, that comes with the position. He's a hot dog. That's what you want, man. Yeah. When he makes his jumping catches at the warning track, and you're like, he's hot dogging it, I think that is him being prepared for every outfield situation. If the wall is there, he's ready for it.

And I think you misinterpret that as hot dog. So he makes a running, he'll make a running catch, and instead of just running it out, he'll like go into a front roll and then like run it out. I don't think that's true. I really don't think that's true. I think you might have seen that one time

and that's just like in your head now. Hater. So I'm like thinking of what the other two tools are. Speed. Billy Hamilton. That's kind of an easy one. Yeah, it's easy. Timlo Castro.

Oh, it is Timlo Castro. It is Timlo Castro. Tilo. I don't even know who that is. Terrence Gore. Terrence Gore. I was saying Trey Turner. Isn't Trey Turner the fastest?

Byron Buxton. I think Trey, Lou Casteiro is a vestment of baseball. I was going to say Buxton was going to be pissed at you for the, for picking Keirmeyer, bro. Bucson knows how I feel about him. He's incredible. Like, he's one of those guys that. Kiermire, like, when he does something, it just looks amazing. Buxton, it's so, it looks so effortless.

Too easy. So, like, he got to, like, get some, like, points off for that. It looks too easy. Yeah. Locastro's on the D-backs, and I think he graded out as the fastest dude in baseball. So that was a cop-out answer a little bit. So what's the fifth tool? What are I missing?

We did power, hit tool, defense, speed. They, they, dude, I always do this. Isn't it arm in field? Arm strength? Yes, a Luriano for arm. Pweeague? He's not in the league currently. He's technically an MLB player.

Aaron Hicks, you're Yankees. He's got a great arm. he's hurt right now. Wow. Have you seen him around? Ramon Luriano was a friend to us, so Luriano. Let me tell you something about Hixie. I texted him.

Yeah. And, you know, we haven't thought in a while, but I texted them, and I got a green bubble back. Yep. Damn. So I wasn't sure if it was him. I wasn't sure if it was him. I didn't want to, like, keep having, I don't know if you got a new number.

I didn't want to keep having this conversation with somebody that might not have been him. So I kind of like, I was like, is this Hixie? And he said something like, yeah, how's Olivia doing? And then I was like, I don't know who this is. So I can kind of like, I think we talked about it. I was like, I'm going to try to like find out if it's him or not. Still haven't found out if it's him. I haven't.

So you're not sure who you're texting. Someone shout out. I'm not taking anyone anymore. They did, yeah. No, who's a low-key sleeper for Arm and you could earn some points back? Dude, Aronado blew my mind. When you watch Aronado's highlights, he obviously, there's, there's, the diving stops and all that, but

there's a lot of balls that he bobbles or he doesn't get cleanly. And I almost, when I saw those initially, I was like, oh, maybe Aeronado's not all chalked up for it. But Aronado's secret is he has a cannon, man. He pegs some dudes, and I'm like,

damn. So now we covered both three. He always those on the run, though. That's the weirdest thing with him. Like, it doesn't matter if the ball is a routine ground ball. Like, he'll find a way to, like, charge that or, like, take it to his side, and then he'll, like, throw on the run, but he's accurate. Look, no one's hating on Aeronado.

You know, you kind of... I just think Matt Chabin's better. You have to play the tape back. Well, there it is. Rocky's fans are pissed. Oh, they're going to be mad. I mean, dude. You saw your Twitter was getting blown up yesterday.

Rocky Twitter. I love Aeronado. My goodness. I have a man crush on Chapman, everybody knows that. All right. Okay. Fair. All right.

We got time for like three more. Yeah, we're good. 30 minute mark. Okay. Is it okay to eat barbecue leftovers for four days straight? Yes. Interesting. That's a hard yes.

All right. I mean, this is kind of, I think we touched on this in past episodes, but I always like this question. This is from at E.V. Chung. He says, if you were commissioner for a week, it could implement three permanent changes for the purposes of drawing more viewers and upping the popularity of baseball, what would they be? I think we can each give one. Yeah. I'll take the easy one.

I want. I go first. I know. Go ahead. Yeah, do the DH in both leagues. Is that going to up the popularity of baseball gym? Yep. Yes.

I mean, would putting a guy on the free throw line with no hands hurt the popularity of basketball? No. I don't know how to answer that at all. That would be awesome. That'd be awesome. No one wants to watch a free out, and then no one wants to watch a pitcher who's doing well get taken out in the fifth inning because it's a close game and his spots coming up with runners in scoring position. And now you have bullpen arms the rest of the way and platoon players the rest of the way in a close game going down the stretch. I know that people crave the creativity and the strategy of that, but bottom line is the end result you're taking out your starters and putting in your replacements in close games.

And that's not good for the sport. Wow, great argument. Jakey? Thank you. It is good. I have changed the channel from an NL game if they walk first and second to get to the pitcher. So I guess I hate that. I hate it too.

We're on agreement on that one. Yeah, easy. I'll go with my Jakey rule. I always try to push. Every team should play each other every year. The example I used, I think last year was the first year. Pool Holst was back in. in St. Louis in eight years or something like that, and the crowd went insane.

And then my other one is with how they juggle the interleague format. Like the Yankees don't play in Colorado, I think, for a five-year period. So what if you're a little kid and you're, or hey, what if, you know, baseball, we want to bring in everyone. What if you're the tallest kid in your local town and everyone's telling you to play basketball? and you're like, well, I kind of like baseball. What if you could watch Aaron Judge be the biggest dude on the field and rake? Like, that's what the sport's missing.

So I think every team has to be in every city every year. I didn't agree with Jake for a while, but I do agree with that now. But part of the reason why I didn't like it is because we also talked about a balanced schedule. And I don't like a balanced schedule. I like your division mattering a lot. So I like playing a ton of games against the five in your division, because it is like a little league then that like, you know, if you don't want to pay attention to all 30 teams,

pay attention to these five for fans that are diehards because it's hard to pay attention to all 30. So if there's a way to do both, keep the division heavy, but also every stadium, I think, I don't know if that's plausible, just logistics, but I do think that I would want teams in every stadium now. Yeah, I had the same feeling last year when the Yankees, was it last year when the Yankees went to L.A.?

Yeah. Yeah. Like that is awesome. And they wore those stupid jerseys. So stupid. There's weekend. Which sucks. I mean,

because that's like just those two iconic franchises, like obviously both from New York, playing each other in L.A. It was cool. So yeah, I agree. I want everyone to play everyone. I like a balanced schedule. I think it's better that way. I think it makes the division games mean more.

Like that's a, those are big games then. And you could kind of stack them at the end of the year. year and I think it'd be awesome. But you know why the Dodgers, do you know why the Dodgers are called the Dodgers? I do. It's a pretty awesome story. Jake, do you know? Do you want to say it?

It's because they would have to dodge the cars in Brooklyn. But it wasn't like a fun game. Like, oh, dodge the cars. Like, people died because they got hit by the trail cars in Brooklyn. They named the team off the people that survived. They're survivors. Survived. I'm excited for yours, Trev.

Do you have one of your hot takes up your sleeve or what do you got? I don't know if you called a hot take. I have a good answer. I think it's a good answer. I think that M.LB across the board should adopt what the Falcons did with their concessions. Ah, okay. Yeah. I think cheap beer, cheap hot dogs, cheap whatever.

You know, people can go Google, like, Atlanta Falcons concessions, and you'll just see how amazing it is. Yeah. And I think that would get people out to the game. Games have to be more affordable. Yeah, I know. Right now, it's too expensive to go to the game. There's ways to do it.

Just got to be sneaky. Like at Yankee Stadium, you can get tickets really cheap in certain ways if you know how. And you can also bring your own food, which I think nobody knows. Yeah, people, they don't promote that because they want to fight. But you can. You can, like, you can. like our dude who works for us or with us, Joe's, and he's

from the Bronx, he goes to a lot of games. He's making a whole video on this. Like, you can go to games cheap if you're local, but yeah, I'm gonna promote it. And he's like, you know, bring your own food. Get buy a ticket here. Then you can sit anywhere here, you know. But I also think it's like

part of the experience to go to the concession stand. I agree. You know they love the snack bar. Like, they didn't want to fucking tuna sandwich. You know? No. No. Dad, give me a hot dog. I want nachos, whatever. That's just part of the whole experience.

And because it's so expensive, people don't get to experience. Like, baseball is amazing lives. You know, you're outside, mostly, and you just get, like, the smell of the grass, and everything is just amazing to go to a game, but people can't afford to do it. So that would be my change.

It would be let's implement, I'll call it the Falcons rule, across all of MLB and get people out to the games. Yeah. Good answer, Trev. Good answer, Trev. Thanks, guys. Yeah.

Even a black squaring answer to not. Broken clocks right twice a day. That's two four. That's pretty mean of you guys. I really like this question. I thought about it a lot last night and I still don't have an answer. Okay. Wow.

At Hanover Ross said what a team made up of all Joey Votto's, pictures included, be better than a team of all Garrett Cole. So it'll be all Joey Votto's. Joey Votto would have to pitch, and it'll be all Garrett Coal, Gary Cole would have to hit. Who wins that one? 26 versus 26.

I mean, does Garrett Cole have, like, it's a game a week? So he gets his off days still on the mound? There's 26 of them. It's just one game. Oh, and there's 26 of them? Yes. Oh, Cole is winning.

I mean, that's... How many runs do you think Joey Votto gets off call. Like if he has four at bats, does he go one for four? There's nine Joey Vod. I understand that, but I'm doing that. That's what I was thinking. Like, how many runs is Joey Vado going to score?

And then the other thing is do you just replace Garrett Cole after three innings with the other Garrett Cole? So he's just like fresh. Yeah. You have unlimited Garrett Coles. Yeah. It's unlimited first out of first Cole.

Have we ever seen Garrett Cole hit? Have we ever seen Joey Votto pitch? I have more faith in Cole getting a hit off Votto than Votto getting... Like, I have more faith in Cole shutting down nine Joey Vottoes to at least five runs. Like, I think that's doable. Easily. Easily. And I think Garrett Cole can bunt around, slap some.

What's Votto tossing? 70? I don't know. I don't know what he's got. I'm all on. Probably. You're Garrett Coltrane the whole way. If Votto could throw a little, I think it's a discussion.

I think, like, I was going to say Otani, but Otani is the winner at this point. He, that's his game. Yeah, that's literally what he does. Yeah, you need a, you need, if it was like Joey Votto with Russell Martin's pitching ability, like we saw him throw a little bit, like, then you've got something there. But I think I lean the Coles like eight out of ten. If Votto has a second pitch, I think it changes a little bit. Of course he has a second pitch, dude.

Come on. Nah, I don't think he does. All right. Yeah, they're just waving that Yankee flag. It's incredible. That's not even a Yanke. That's the Votto argument. Yeah, what's the, why is the guy?

Well, here's the thing. Garrett Cole, and I don't know this for sure, but he strikes me as a guy that, well, in the industry, it's called a P-O. Pitcher-O. Hitcher only. And I think he'd been that way since, what, high school? He probably hit in high school. Maybe he didn't even hit in high school.

I don't know. But, like, have you seen pitchers in the box? He's got a... He just went on a rant about how this guy, you compared them to the guys shooting crissos with no arm. Cole's got a home run, and it wasn't against Joey Votto, is probably against a real pitcher.

You have the home run? I'm pretty sure he has a home run. Let's see. Jake's pulling it up. Looking for the batting stats. They're not showing up. I mean, how would he, where did he ever have, oh, he was a pirate. Pirates, yeah.

And, dude, he's, he's got a little experience then. I think the other thing that we're also getting biased with Cole, which I'll admit, is that, dude, he's like an insane competitor, like, stupid. So you put, no, and I know. Oh, my God. You just told us, you've told us how, you know, spring training sucks, and it's boring. We saw him yesterday, like, day three of spring training. He's grunting and he's pissed off.

It was literally the conversation of spring training yesterday that this guy is like wired differently. He's a Scherzer. He's one of those guys. There's a select few. And I think you know that, but you don't like that. I like him as a player. Hey, hey, hey, listen up, ploof.

Garrett Cole has three career home runs. Wow. Two career doubles and a lifetime OPS plus of eight. Yeah. Here's what we all forgot about. What did I forget about? Derek Cole's got to play defense, too.

Yeah. Good. It'll be great at that. Who's a better shortstop, Cole or Votto? Votto. Who's a better center fielder? The pitchers, you know, they shag a lot of fly balls.

I mean, they actually don't do that anymore. They used to shagg CP. Now it's like you can't. These guys are wrapped in bubble wrap, but. Both catchers are a nightmare. I'm saying Votto. I want to be different than you guys because I'm so sick of your Make you bias.

Hey, I have a question for you. What's in your heart? Plufe, I have a question for you. Plufe, I have a question for you. Yeah, what's up? Who's a better pitcher, Patrick Corbyn or Joey Votto? Stop. Okay, he hit a home run of Patrick Corbin?

And Luis Castillo. Pretty good. And Blake Parker. Don't know who that is. He's a good reliever. Okay. Hey, look I'm all

Put them in the Yankees lineup then You guys love them hitting No D-Aid That's Jimmy's dream Yeah No D-H Fuck the D-H Looks like they were

First pitch fastballs Oh 1 O-1 versus Corvin Hell yeah Let me Let me get one last Question here I'm going to scroll

To get a good one All right You guys can keep You guys can keep You know Dreaming about Garrett Cole. Three homers, baby.

Hmm. That's pretty good. That's better than I thought. But I also forgot that he's on the Pirates. Okay. One more question? Yeah, this is a layup question. Let's end it with an easy one.

Good. And I'm going to add a little bit of different caveat to this. This is from at Joseph B. Andrea. He's a Mets fan. Nice. Who would be your dream guest on talking baseball or just to interview have a chat with in general. Love your stuff, guys.

Thank you for that compliment. Thank you. For talking Yanks, I've long said it's Billy Crystal. Ooh. By talking baseball is a whole different story. And I don't, these are hard because as Trev knows, the biggest name isn't always the best like conversation. Yes.

So. There's a lot of duds out there. All of baseball? I don't know, man. Like, my brain went to Yogi Berra, but she's not with us anymore. Let's stay with a lot. Yeah. Just caveat.

Just got to put it. Yeah. No, but still. Well, if it was dead, I'd do Babe Ruth. I don't know, man. I like Billy Crystal. That's a good answer. I do.

I have one. That's pretty easy, though. What do you got? For me, I'm an L.A. guy. He actually lives in the same neighborhood as me, and I've tried to hang with him before. and it's Ben Scully. I mean, I would just love to sit and talk because people obviously know him as a Dodgers broadcaster.

He's, you know, probably the most iconic, you know, game caller ever. But, you know, he used to call Super Bowls and playoff games and he did everything. So he has just this, and he started when he was like 20 and he did it for like 70 years, dude. Yeah. So, like the wealth of not.

and just like experiences he's had, I would just love to just hear him talk. And I wouldn't say shit. I would just shut up and just like, hey, Ben, he could just like talk for an hour. Yeah. And I'm just going to sit here. That's like, no matter.

That's my guy always, my boy Ben. It's a good one. It's a good one. Good one, Trevor. He's a good talker. Jacob. Oh, God.

I guess I've got a couple dark horses swimming through my head. right now. Like you said, that old announcer route, like Uker, and I think we're even sneaking up on doing something like that. Like, he's a special baseball dude. That could come soon. Yeah, yeah.

And you just know that's going to be a fun combo. How about a real sleeper? How about Michael Jordan? How about MJ? Oh, I would not. That would be too scary. Interesting. Would you ask about baseball?

Strictly baseball. Oh, strictly baseball? Yeah, cool, that sounds fun. Talk about, like, all of it. And obviously not the secret gambling story, and that's why he played. But, like, how, like, is he actually, is he passionate about baseball? Is he, like, what was that really like? And was it, was it terribly weird, like being the best basketball player of all time?

And then just being kind of a scrub baseball player? Like, what was going on? That was insane. Terry Francona was his manager? Miners, yeah. Oh, really? That's awesome. Yeah.

There's that 30 for 30 on it, like riding the bus with Jordan. What if I told you? That's good stuff. All right. Cool. Some good answers there. This went well. Shout out to the people that asked questions.

They asked some pretty good ones. That was a great, great Twitter Q&A right there. I love it. Yeah, appreciate that. When do you come out here? How many days? I will be there Sunday night. I'm excited for it.

Today's the 20th. Sunday is the 20th. You guys will be like, this is what's good about me coming a little later. You guys are going to be dead. Yeah. And I'm going to come and just spark that shit and the energy will be brought and we'll be back. Bring some smelling salts. I'm thriving right now.

I don't think you understand. You guys look great, but it's also day two. Yes. Day one was a killer. Oh, we created a new game show interview style. And we've had one guest on. we might try to have another guest on today if it goes well, but then you'll be their third.

You're going to like it. You're going to like it. Okay. It's got a little competitor in it, which, you know, I've seen that fire light up in your eyes. Every once in a while you can get it out of me. Hey, who's your answer for power? That's also been in my head.

Who do you think has the best raw power? You're going to twins out and go to know or some shit like that, or what? You've got so much pop, dude. I just, I can ask you to the reaction. I wanted some. He does. I mean, it's ridiculous. I think it's foolish not to say, like, a Stanton or a judge.

Okay. All right. I mean, if you just really just think about it. Oh, got the answer. Who led to the league in home runs last year? Alonzo. Suarez. Oh, yeah, Suarez.

Eugenio Suarez. He led the league in home? No, he didn't. Dude, he put up a stupid number last year. He didn't lead the league, though. You know what's funny about that question is and why baseball is the cool sport it is. We had five different answers for the five different tools.

Alonzo clipped him. Mike Trout is the best five tool player in baseball, maybe in the history of baseball going right now. But does he lead one category? No, I've always said that, Jim. I know. Always said that our guy, Mike, like, you just watch him play, and you're like, this guy obviously is amazing.

You look at his numbers. It's incredible. But when you put him up against some of these other guys, the specific tools, like he's just really good at everything. Six players. He might not be great. It's the old Olympics gymnastics debate.

Do you want to win your event or do you want to win the all-around? Trout's winning the all-around. That old gymnastics. Every four years the nation goes into that heated gymnas. It's not called gymnastics. Well, That's what you're saying. Six guys hit 44 plus homers last year.

Name them. Six guys? Six guys hit 44 plus. Marte? I'm going to... Nope. I'm going to draw a blank on all these. I'll go.

Obviously, Pete Alonzo. Yep. Number one at 50. Eugenio. Yep, number two, 49. Trout. Trout was fifth with 45. Yeah, I don't know.

Stop. We got an MVP. Ballinger, Yelly? Former MVP? Bellinger hit 47. Yelly hit 44 in his short and season. So there's one guy missing. We got one missing character.

Jake, tell us. Solar power, baby. Oh, yeah, yeah. So there. Wow. And tough because he was in Kansas City, right? Yeah, man. That tells me right there, the ball was fucking juice, because Kansas City is,

it's ridiculous you know no one should be hitting 47 I mean the record there I think we stock is set was like 37 too much barbecue yeah

I don't know man yeah all right anything else I'm good good play that out show music baby well here it is

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