Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - A DRAMATIC Baseball Weekend | MLB Recap | 824

Starting point is 00:00:01 Hello and welcome to talking baseball from the beast of the east. Baltimore, Milwaukee, to the best of the West. San Diego and the Dodgers? A lot of ball, Trev. Masters Weekend? UFC? Hello and welcome to talking baseball, presenting you by Seat Geek. Make sure you download the Seat Geek app.

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Starting point is 00:00:53 Save $20 off your first purchase at SeatGeek. $20 off, click the link in the description. Seekkeek, code talking. Trev, how are you? And if you could please let the people know which member of John Boy Media was at Coachella this weekend. Yes. It wasn't me.

Starting point is 00:01:11 No. Okay. I do like that voice. Say that again. Say Coachella again. Coachella. Yeah, that's exactly how you say it. The 5 to the 405 and then we're just going to... I don't want to do any molly,

Starting point is 00:01:24 but I'll probably do just like a little bit of shrooms and just feel it. Do kids do shrooms? I don't know. Don't do any of that, people. Protein shakes and hard work. That's all you need. Yes. Yes, Chris Rose was the one that went to Coachell.

Starting point is 00:01:39 He was chaperoning for his young son, Brady. That's just a hilarious image in my head is Chris Rose at Coachella. It looks like a flower crown. You know, that doesn't even drink. What was he going to do there? Thank you to everyone that came out to our live event on Friday. We did it, Chris and I in downtown L.A. on a Friday at 4 o'clock,

Starting point is 00:02:03 which is basically the worst time to drive anywhere. And we still sold out our event and had a bunch of people there. So thanks to everyone that came out. There's a lot of fun. We're going to do more of those for sure. I think that was a good start to it. I'm excited to talk some ball with you, Big Jake. Did have a good weekend.

Starting point is 00:02:18 A lot of sports, you're right. UFC, Master, Scottie Shephler doing it. My gosh. But yeah, more than anything. More than anything. I want to talk a little bit at the end of the show about some guys I want to highlight. And then I think there's a new, like, bad boy team in the sport. Ooh.

Starting point is 00:02:38 Yeah. So I can't wait to talk about it. How you doing, Jake? Forever Goose. new bad boy team. I'm good, man. It was a sports weekend. I was kind of, kind of free. Our guy, uh, uh, Jared Jones, Pirates pitcher. He's in the office right now. Uh, I can see his, his agent. Amber Sabathia is here too. So we're having a nice day at the office. I think Mitch Keller is going to come through. Um, and yeah, man, I, I, I kind of had an open weekend.

Starting point is 00:03:05 And I was excited. I was like, I'm going to lock in, watch my yanks a lot, uh, master's. everything else. Yanks got rained out Friday, and it was my first, like, around the league day. Like, Friday night, I was watching ball around the league. It felt good to be back. MLB Network has a new channel. I sent it in our chat.

Starting point is 00:03:27 It's not MLB Network. It's MLB Network, something else. And it's, like, it's the version of Red Zone I've been looking for for baseball. So it was awesome. Like, I was getting, like, Every game in the action parts of the game, it was a really, really fun night. So I, uh, I'm feeling good. I, I was laughing at some of our comments, uh, on last Wednesday or last Friday show

Starting point is 00:03:55 because we got some Ipe show hay updates. And one of the comments got me good. They were like, man, you know, Jake, A, I always get hit for saying, I don't know a lot because I don't know a lot. And I do say that too much. I'm working on it. But they were like, man, he's like, Jake didn't really know much about this Ipe's show a thing. It sounds like he just read

Starting point is 00:04:13 a Reddit thread and some articles and I was like, yeah man, I don't want to pretend that I know anything about that. So Friday night to be watching ball and knowing a little about what I'm seeing, but also people, you know your team

Starting point is 00:04:29 better than us, but it was fun. Man, the product's so good, Trev. Like there's some good, there's yes, yes. Like there's a stereotype like, oh, you know, it's 7-1 baseball game in August. And maybe there's a little truth to that.

Starting point is 00:04:46 Dude, teams are out there. Like, fighting. Like, everyone's at bat matters. And there's a little bit your personal stats or your personal stats. But it's also, I don't know, man. Teams are young and hungry and want to go. And the product on the field is really good. I think we're seeing a lot of, like,

Starting point is 00:05:04 young teams kind of take that next step or, like, get that first taste of success at the big league level. or guys starting to feel confident at the baby level. And that's fun baseball to watch because when you, you know, as a player, you're terrified of the babies. I mean, we're going to talk about Jackson Holiday. It's scary, bro. It's scary up there.

Starting point is 00:05:24 Well, then when you start to figure it out a little bit, you're like, okay, I can hang. The confidence that comes from that is it's, you can feel it through the TV screen. Wyatt Langford. You could feel it with that guy, man. I love watching that. You know, I wouldn't worry about not. not being an expert in legal matters.

Starting point is 00:05:43 I always think that's funny. Whenever we get something going on with like, you know, the law and we try to talk about, of course, yeah, we read the articles and we read through what we need to read through. But I don't know what the law says and what's going to happen. And a lot of people like to tell us about that. So don't worry about it, Big Jake. I think you did fine on the subject.

Starting point is 00:06:01 I think I did fine. I definitely didn't excel because I still don't know, man. I mean, I stole a lot of money. Anyways, let's talk some ball because that's the fun stuff. Man, even seeing big maple back on the rubber last night, eight walks, not as fun. And how about those Padres? There was a ton of interleague, so I'm actually going to kind of do an ALNL super burn and get into some ball. Wow.

Starting point is 00:06:31 Yeah. And Trev, we start off with your Minnesota Twins. They played the Detroit Tigers. These two teams kind of became the two favorites in the Central, and they end up splitting four games. Scoobel does Scoople things, five shutpiece. Mark Kana with the Homer in that game. Joe Ryan comes back the next day with six innings,

Starting point is 00:07:01 one earn of his. Myeda matches, but Jeffers Martin, the Twinkies, they get it done in that one. In extra innings, you mentioned McKinster, with the tough error late, and then he's got to wear it on the mound. That's a tough, funny one. Twins double up, Woods Richardson, Eddie Julianne, and Cole Sands with a nice showing out of the bullpen. But Detroit makes it a split in that final game.

Starting point is 00:07:28 Jack Flaherty actually gets out dueled by the nightmare a little bit, but Detroit gets it done late with the big inning. They split four up there after trailing after seven. Angels in socks, kids, socks. They lose the first one. 6.1 Shuddy. You might hear more about him. Later in the game, Taylor Ward with a big night at the office. Sox had lost four straight at home.

Starting point is 00:07:53 They write the ship. They win back-to-back games. Tristan Kosas, homers in both of these games. Bayo 5.1-2 earns. Cooper Chriswell gets the call and does enough. And socks hold serve. They win a series. They were skidding a little bit there. Speaking of, the Rangers, they do. Rangers things to Houston in the first game. They put up a 12 spot, Adoles, Evan Carter, Jonah

Starting point is 00:08:19 Hyme. I think at one point they'd won like eight straight games in Houston, seven straight. Houston, they end their own four-game losing streak. Ronel Blanco has to be the stopper. Again, it's tied two-two in the seventh, and the Astros put a seven on the board to get a dominant win. and then they win the final game to win the series. Al Tuve goes nut job. Lead off Homer. We saw a couple of those around the league. And Christian Javier with a big start,

Starting point is 00:08:51 kind of huge for Houston Astros to win that series. My, BBDs, Joms, New York Yankees, take two out of three from Chris Rose's guard dog. Could have been a swept. They win on the double header day. Get enough pitch and Cody Potit steps up. Juan Soto, Voltaire. Hope he's real, Treve, it's fun to watch live.

Starting point is 00:09:14 Last game, Yanks got it. They don't in extra innings. Those pesky guardians come back. They win 8 to 7 to salvage it on their end. In the National League, I told you Jared Jones is here. He started the first game against Ranger Suarez. 6.13 Ernie's out of him. It wasn't enough because Suarez was great.

Starting point is 00:09:35 And I asked Jared Jones, hey, any insight from the series? He said, Brandon Marsh can hit him. It sliders. I found that out. All right, humble king, handsome. Distracted myself a little bit there. Pirates, they win the next game. They end up splitting four games in that series. Cassianos gets a walk-off. Jack Swinsky, Grand Salami, and Andrew McCutcheon, your guy guy. How about 300 career yaboes? Pretty damn cool. Schwerber with the leadoff Homer, too. Him and Altuve, pretty similar guys. on the field, not as much, just off.

Starting point is 00:10:14 Braves Marlins. Marlins are about to take two out of three from the Braves. The fish are turning their season around. Oh my God, the bear. Marcel Ozuna, two outs, two strikes, yard call, flips the series on its head. Maximus Freed with a big bounce back start. Max Meyer, good day to be a Max, huh?

Starting point is 00:10:36 He gets the win for the Marlins, and if you're looking for it, Jazz Chisholm's Instagram, he dropped his new song. The St. Louis Cardinals in the Arizona Diamondbacks. Oh, yeah, Trev, go check it out. Really? They drop the first game to the Cardinals. They're sputtering a little fatt gets hit. Cardinals with a big day at the office, 9 to 6. But the Diamondbacks rally. They get a couple homers off of our guy Gibby. Zach Gallen, the Milkman with a big start. They win 5.0. on that final game. And that Padre series,

Starting point is 00:11:11 they take two out of three from the Dodgers, and we're about to talk about that one. So, Trev, you got the standings by chance? Now I'm going to Josh Chisholm's Instagram page. Is it a good song? Beaver's. You're like our young guy here. Did you listen to it?

Starting point is 00:11:28 I had check out this Instagram. We'll get the Beaves update. Again, I'm not where the line of culture, music, and sports should meet. I wasn't blown away by it, and I just know there's some baseball people that are like, you know, our Marlins were three, four, and 12, and you're dropping a song, which I don't necessarily agree on that end of the scale, but. It's a big music episode for us. Godier will be mentioned later on in the show.

Starting point is 00:11:56 Jake might sing a little hook line. I don't know. The standings. And I'm going through the AL and the NO people, because that's what I do. I'm different. Me and Jake. In the AL East, because we start on the AL on Mondays. the New York Yankees are 12 and 4. Holy snaky.

Starting point is 00:12:11 Baltimore, 9 and 6, Boston 9 and 7. Toronto, or no, Tampa Bay 9 and 7. Toronto is 8 and 8. So everybody in the ALEs is back to 500 or better. In the central, a couple 10-win teams here. Not who you expect. Cleveland, 10 and 5. The Royals 10 and 6.

Starting point is 00:12:30 Detroit 9 and 6. My twins almost got to 500. They're at 6 and 8 in the White Sox, bringing up the rear at 2 and 13 and then in the West, which we expected to be one of the better divisions in baseball. Right now, it ain't looking like that. They're all jumbled up. Texas at top,

Starting point is 00:12:46 they're 8 and 8. The Angels are at 7 and 8. Oakland, how about it? They're winning some series. Yeah, 3 straight, I think. 7 and 9, Seattle, 6 and 10 in Houston, bringing up the rear at 6 and 11. We'll switch over into the National League,

Starting point is 00:13:03 the National League East. The Braves are winning that. Nine and five is their record. The Philly is 8 and 8. The Mets 7 and 8. The Nationals, 6 and 9. Nice. And the aforementioned Miami Marlins, 3 and 13.

Starting point is 00:13:17 In the Central, Milwaukee, those guys, and the pirates. Milwaukee's 10 and 4. Pittsburgh's 11 and 5. And then you got the Cubs at 9 and 6, the Reds at 9 and 6, and St. Louis at 7 and 9. You might hear a little bit more about that team as well. And then in the West, finally, you end the standings talk. The Dodgers are at 11 and 7.

Starting point is 00:13:40 The Diamondbacks are at 8 and 8. The Padres are at 9 and 9 and then the Giants, 6 and 10, and Rockies at 4 and 12. And that's the standings, my people. Beautiful, Trevor. Beautiful. Let's reverse engineer it a little bit because it's the last game everyone saw,

Starting point is 00:13:57 if you're a baseball fan. Can I say something? Please. I haven't seen Bieber bobbing his head yet. So I don't know if that means he's not into the song or not. I've been watching for that. I'm trying to find it. Okay, that's why.

Starting point is 00:14:10 I might be able to link you. I was chatting with someone about it last night. Trev, speaking of last night. Yes. Oh, he might have taken it down. Okay. So that might tell you. Okay.

Starting point is 00:14:28 The last thing we saw last night didn't really burn through it. But Dodgers, Padres, one of MLB's Primo series. Your Dodgers, like you said, you and Chris Rose did the show before this game in L.A. Padres won the first one in extras. King and Yamamoto. It feels like these teams have been playing a ton this year because the Korea series. What's going on over there? If you just asked me where her tennis bag was, it sits in the garage, right?

Starting point is 00:15:00 Get out of here. Woman. I was kidding, I love you so much. I would never say that to her. You would never say that. I would never say that. You live in such fear of her. She's already gone.

Starting point is 00:15:11 She's so far away. Padres trailed. Seven to four into the sixth. They put a rally together. Man, Jackson Merrill turned my head in this series. That play he made in center. And it just felt like he was constantly on base. There was eight homers in the first game.

Starting point is 00:15:30 The second game has drama in it. The final game has drama. ProFar, Mr. Irrelevant with the big hit. Where do you want to go in this series, Treb? I mean, this is such an interesting dynamic between these two teams in these cities because San Diego, like, they hate Los Angeles and they want to beat L.A. A lot of teams want to beat L.A. And if you talk to Dodgers fans, they're not our rivals.

Starting point is 00:15:56 It's not there yet. It's still L.A. and Giants, even though, you know, the Giants have been kind of up and down. I guess you could probably say the same thing about the Padres. But let me tell you something. There's a rivalry here, people. Watch these two teams play. And like things happen.

Starting point is 00:16:10 And whether it's, you know, benches clearing over an inside pitch or dramatic games, like there's superstars playing against each other in these games every single time they meet. And you really can tell, like the energy really, really is here at these games. Whether it's in San Diego, whether it's in L.A. So whether Dodgers fans want to admit it or not,

Starting point is 00:16:33 like there is a rivalry here. So, I mean, things get chippy from time to time. In this one, you know, we got our guy Gavin Stone up there. I think he had retired the first 13 hitters in that second game. Profar shows bunt. Next pitch up and in. He takes exception to it. You know, which is kind of silly.

Starting point is 00:16:55 And you know what? After the game, he said, I don't know if they were taking exception to the best. but you know then he i think he thought after the game like okay they're not going to throw out me in a perfect game it was just heat he he did the moment i think i don't i don't fault him for that like dude you're competing and someone throws a ball at you up and in like your juices get going that's just how it happens um so starts a little bit of drama there a little bit of bench clearing there uh after the game and we're already selling shirts with this on it uh

Starting point is 00:17:29 Will Smith says, I don't know why we throw at him. He's kind of irrelevant, which I don't necessarily like that line from Will Smith. I like Will Smith as a player, and I've had many good things to say about him. But, you know, ProFar is a, I think he just hit his 10-year mark in the show. Like, don't call a guy that's got 10 years in the show irrelevant. It's just not true. We know what you're trying to say. Like, there's other guys in the lineup that, you know, are better than him.

Starting point is 00:17:54 And if you want to hit someone, you'd probably go after the big dogs. but there's no reason to say mystery irrelevant because what happens in the next game. Big situation, base is loaded, rerun double by the guy. So there are just times where you kind of got a sleeping dog lie and he kind of woke him up right there. But these series are great, man. Like you Darvish going up against Otani was awesome to see.

Starting point is 00:18:20 He kind of like has owned Mookie Betts and you don't see too many pitchers have those numbers against him. just, I don't know, there's a lot of good baseball being played. I actually liked watching Matt Waldron throw. You know, I think at the beginning of the year, oh, this guy's a knuckleball. I don't really see him throw too much.

Starting point is 00:18:35 Now, I've watched him a couple of different times. Like, he's not just a knuckleball. This guy can throw some, you know, he throws a bunch of different pitches. And honestly, it would be my nightmare to face him. Like, I never liked that. If a guy had a knuckleball, like Ari Dickey was kind of like that from time to time where he'd throw his fastball, a little cut piece there.

Starting point is 00:18:53 He had a great start, man. A really nice start in this. series. So just good baseball, a little bit of chippiness. We saw the fan deek everybody out with the Mani Machado Homer thing. That was an interesting interview by Buster Olin's like put him on the freaking spot. Yeah. Although the guy admitted everything right away. Yeah. I guess how could you not when it's all on camera? It was a great series. A lot of fun. Yeah, I, you know, the intensity, kind of, I was talking about that early in the show. This series absolutely had that. I mean, Fernando Tattis, in Dodger Stadium.

Starting point is 00:19:27 That dude's got some crazy numbers. For me, and again, this is a three-game set where one or two plays could have changed the first game or the last game, really. Padres have a little more piss and vinegar to them, and I don't know if that's a shilt effect. Sometimes we wonder about teams.

Starting point is 00:19:49 You heard them talking on the broadcast, and everyone's, it's one of those things I can't tell if we've made the smoke about the Padres and the dugout having weird vibes last year, or if they're weird vibes and it's kind of, you know, when Buster only, the broadcast was talking about it, which makes me think when people in baseball bring up something like that, it usually means they know more, but not what you can discuss. They're playing with some fight, and I know pro far in the Mr. Irrelevant thing,

Starting point is 00:20:24 which is crazy. We sold a handful of shirts already. For me, Jackson Merrill being looking like a guy, that is impactful. Like, that's what I was saying. This three-game series, whatever. It happened. Padres, you got to feel good. You took three or two out of three against the Dodgers.

Starting point is 00:20:44 You split in Korea that you're chewing up a lot of your Dodgers games this year. So that's massive. But the fact that Jackson Merrill is playing, that catch in center field is no joke. he was getting on base. ProFar's hard hit rate and numbers are like up and through the roof that, you know, what does that mean over 162? I don't know. I know ProFar has had some of his best seasons or maybe had his best season with San Diego.

Starting point is 00:21:11 So as you're talking about lineup depth, and that's one of the big things for the Padres to have a successful season, I don't know. It's a little bit of head till. We know what the Dodgers are and where they're going to end up. We're not sure about the Padres, but the early signs are looking pretty good. I think you nailed it. I mean, some of the younger guys or guys at the bottom of the order have been producing.

Starting point is 00:21:37 And we talked about the Padres being kind of top heavy. You have the stars. But when you can lengthen the lineup like that, I mean, it just changes the game. You know, getting guys on base and then driving them in is way different than getting guys on base. And then just getting run through the bottom of your order. Like that changes the game and that's a very obvious statement by me but it's the truth

Starting point is 00:22:00 The longer you're a lineup, the more chances you're going to have the score runs The feisty you're going to be The more comebacks you're going to have And having guys like ProFAR At the bottom of the lineup going off Like Jackson Merrill Who's 20 years old people

Starting point is 00:22:15 He's a shortstop just starting to play center field And you mentioned the catch he made Go check that up if you haven't seen it When you have these guys producing Offensively like this Aggie doing it as well like we're doing like if you go look at their baseball reference page

Starting point is 00:22:29 right now you know one two three like there's eight or nine guys with OPS Plus is over 120 like they're kind of getting it done up and down the lineup and we're sitting at 500 man like the pitching has been pretty dang good as well

Starting point is 00:22:43 Musgrove hasn't had the best start to the season but like they have they have enough there like this is this is a playoff team people well and I think Treves the beauty of this where, you know, we plan some stuff out. But Dodgers fans, you know, the bottom of their lineup, which there's guys down there, and I don't think it's a season-long concern.

Starting point is 00:23:03 But that's where they ended up struggling, the six through nine hitters, Teosker, Outman, Kike, and Lux, 0 for 13 in Sunday's game. So, yeah, and I've been seeing it around the league a little bit. I saw it with Cleveland. I've seen it with the Yankees that if you have a couple guys in the middle of of your lineup. I think one of the new rules of pitching, and this sounds obvious, but if you don't have to pitch to a Shohei or a judge or Jose Ramirez or whoever your guy's

Starting point is 00:23:33 team is, you know, I don't want to call it Blake Snell pitching because he had a tough outing. But if you can dodge the big guy in the lineup and you make the sixth or seventh hole hitter beat you, you know, that's kind of a better recipe than trying to make Aaron Judge beat you because I've seen what he can do. And I don't know. I think pitchers are just being smart about it. And for the Dodgers, it ended up hurting them in that final game.

Starting point is 00:24:00 Padre is sitting right now, sixth in all the baseball in OPS. How about that? Pretty good, man. The Braves are just ridiculous. Think about how much we talk. Yeah, I mean, the Braves, different planet. But think about how much we talked about, like, oh, Padres, go get an outfielder, go get some lefties.

Starting point is 00:24:17 And now there's pro far doing his thing, switch hitting and Jackson Merrill, man. He said, go get a center fielder. They're like, we'll just put this guy out there. Jackson Merrill was fun to watch, man. He played with a little bit of a dog in him. That was fun. Dodgers not worried at all.

Starting point is 00:24:35 I think Padre is a little bit of excitement. Still some improvement around the edges that can happen. And let's see how the season evolves for them. But, oh boy, they're about to go play Milwaukee, which I can't wait to talk about. them. We'll get there in a little bit. Let's see, Trev. National League, I think it's checking some boxes along the way. For my snakes, they end up winning the series, which they hold serve after dropping that

Starting point is 00:25:08 first game. I know Nolan gets going, which Cardinals fans need him to go a little more. The Braves, I mentioned this on the way through, but God, Jaws of Life. They were about to lose. Here comes the closer. It's the top of that Braves lineup, though. And they get it to Ozuna. Two strikes. He just got embarrassed by a slider.

Starting point is 00:25:32 Hits one into the cheap seats, turns a series loss into a win. So that's kind of everything I have on those NL series, if there's something you want to add. Jake, the Braves are hitting over 300 as a team. That's good. 301, 361, 496, for an. 857. That's good.

Starting point is 00:25:53 I mean, this team is incredible. We talk about long lineups and what it can do to you over, over, you know, 27 ounce, dude. Yeah. Like, you just got to get them and if you're not getting them

Starting point is 00:26:02 in one particular part of the order, like, you're just, it's relentless baseball. And you love to see that. Still no word on jazz chisholm song? It's out, huh? We're just... I think it got taken down.

Starting point is 00:26:15 I got, so I got sent it last night, and I watched it, and then it's... It says it's no longer there. So I don't, I don't know. I guess we'll wait on the update on that one. I will say pretty cool series in Philadelphia. I know they split, so we don't always like to go into a series that split.

Starting point is 00:26:37 I don't really know when that started, but we started that precedent. And it's been set, people. Philly's debuted their unies, which looked good. Freaking, Trey Turner took a spill in the union that scared me when you tried to plan a foot and just fell down, didn't like to see that. That was the same game that Ria Muto took, I think he got crossed up on a pitch and took a 95 to the wrist. So not a great series for the fills in that regard.

Starting point is 00:27:02 But I think you got to give credit to the pirates, man, and what they're doing. Like, they're another team that's kind of getting some offensive production from guys that, you know, maybe we wouldn't have thought of or some young guys, you know, kind of up and down the lineup. They're doing it. We're seeing, you know, Bednar came back. and after Rowdy had his back, he'd been pretty dang good. That was a fun series to watch because they're getting some good starting pitching.

Starting point is 00:27:28 Jones, like we mentioned earlier, who was in the office, and then Bailey Fultor looked really good. And then obviously Mitch Keller, the last game. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Again, back Wieler out dueling him, 70s pitch, two runs, man. They have a recipe there for, you know, a sustained winning season at Pittsburgh.

Starting point is 00:27:46 I think two games, you know, two game splits, four games. splits. They're always tough because it's like, eh, eh, but for me, it's like, we know who the Phillies are. They're the Phillies. They haven't been hitting. Schwerber has a couple big games, but Harper has been really struggling. But again,

Starting point is 00:28:07 I don't think there's any worry coming from Phillies that, you're right, the talking point would be Pittsburgh has a look to them. The lineups got some depth. Six and on base, seventh and run. on any given night, they've got some, like, real guys as, like, bench pieces. And Jared Jones, who, again, we're a little too close to the situation

Starting point is 00:28:28 because we just talked to him. And he was like, I was like, oh, dude, hop on. Say hi to Trevor before the show. He's like, yeah, I think you just followed me on Instagram. So, um... We followed each other. Yeah. Okay, Trev.

Starting point is 00:28:41 Um, he did say, and I'm, you know, this doesn't get Jared in trouble, but I was, you know, I'm giving the, how are the boys feeling? How's everything going? I was like, oh, you know, your guy's line up depth. I'm about that. And at one point, he looked him in, he's like, he's like, you know, there might be a big guy on the way at some point. Oh.

Starting point is 00:29:00 No, no. Break some news? No, I mean, it's no inside trading. But I was just like, you know, it's funny when we talk about someone like Paul Skeens and it's, you know, hey, are the pirates going to come up? It's funny to know, like, that's, I've been saying pirates, hang around. so you give that guy a call up and you can feel that rush. It's funny that, you know, they know that guy's there.

Starting point is 00:29:25 They saw him in spring training. So excited to get there. Shout out Kutch before we move on. Yeah. Hits his 300th career home run. Snaps for him. Meets the guy that caught it after the game, class act. Probably the most universally loved person in the sport.

Starting point is 00:29:45 Up there. Who else is there? Hot boy list. I don't know. Okay, okay, I can see it. You know? I can see it. He's turned into like a Zaddy, you know, like big rich.

Starting point is 00:29:58 Yeah. Bigger daddy. I like that. He can dance. What's his like alternate personality? Oh. Uncle. He's starting to get, you know, the older you get.

Starting point is 00:30:14 Was it to Larry? Uncle Larry. Uncle Larry, nice trap. Glad you had that in your place. bag. Treve, I also want to talk about before we do a little interleague. Hey, the Yankees deserve it to get a little love on your end. I keep doing this, but they haven't lost a series.

Starting point is 00:30:33 They've won every series they've played in. They were close to getting the sweep and full-blown Yankee mania. Extra hittings got to them a little bit. Guard dogs, like I was saying, might our kind of consensus scouting report. You know, Naylor Ramirez, those are the big threats. And Kwan's a great hitter. Jimenez does it on both sides. The lineup depth for Cleveland,

Starting point is 00:30:57 I'm interested to see how that develops during the season. But the Yanks, and they moved Volpe to lead off, which that was a hot topic, and, oh, you know, don't mess with the kid. We were part of it. I have a little bit of that, like, hey, if the kid's hitting down in the lineup, don't feel rushed to move them up.

Starting point is 00:31:16 They moved him up. He still looks good. And that's what they want. Like the Yankees dream, if they could say how they want this season to go. Volpe, Soto, Judge, Rizzo, Stanton. Things are starting to come together. The Yankees feel a little bit like the Yankees. They've been feeling like the Yankees.

Starting point is 00:31:35 You guys have been excited. I mean, what, since Soto came over. That's it. A little bit. And then it ran into the season. It's still going hot. So I'm very happy for you guys. Everyone seems like they're in such a good mood.

Starting point is 00:31:46 And they are a fun watch. So congratulations. Do you want to tap on any of these other series? My twins and tigers, they split. Twins win two on Saturday after getting rained out on Thursday. Some good pitching performances in these on both sides. A lot of strikeouts. A lot of strikeouts.

Starting point is 00:32:08 Joe Ryan did his thing. Is that hitting or pitching? It's bad hitting, coach. It's bad hitting. Both these teams need to step it up. There was, you know, obviously the signs of life. Tigers had a nice first game. Kana had, you know, a nice game, two for three of the Homer,

Starting point is 00:32:23 Torcosen did his thing, whatever. But overall, both these teams offensively have struggled. Their pitching has held them together. One thing, I guess I was looking at is what does Simians Woods Richardson bring to the table? Because Twins' pitching depth has been tested already early in the season. He came up and had a really nice start. Bailey Ober, after that horrendous start against the Royals,

Starting point is 00:32:45 has looked pretty good. the Dodgers and gave up a few runs early on then settled down. Now he has a nice start 16th's pitch as your own runs. A lot of people were saying he was tipping his pitches, but I don't think that was the case ever because I looked at it. So yeah, I mean, the pitching staffs for both these teams are

Starting point is 00:32:59 doing fine. It's the hitting just has not been there. And then, yeah, I think the only other thing, and I think I'm going to do it for my, or I'm going to do one of these guys for my award, but Houston, huge you know, scuffling to start the year. They needed that series.

Starting point is 00:33:19 You know, it's 2-2 in the 7th, and I think Texas had the bases loaded, two outs, and they get the strikeout, and then they put up a 7-burger, and then they roll the next day that, again, it's April 15th. But Houston needed that a little bit. The fact it was Texas, too,

Starting point is 00:33:39 Kyle Tucker and Altuvego Nuts, and Javier and Blanco, maybe more importantly, on the bump, because you kind of know what they're going to get offensively. The pitching's been the, question mark and they got two two big boy starts where would this astros team be without ronnell blanco which is crazy to say because this guy wasn't even going to be on the roster to start the year he makes it on you know because there's some injuries and all of a sudden you know he's like

Starting point is 00:34:05 your stopper he's your guy he's had just a tremendous start to the season you lose that first game of the series and you're like okay here we go again great start by him against teeny and Javier does the same thing the night after. I mean, that's... I'm not going to say this is a series that gets the a Shows rolling, but I think we all are agreeing that the Ashos will be okay.

Starting point is 00:34:27 I know it looks a little different. The injuries have really hit. I think the update on Framber was kind of like the best case scenario. Like, it's not T.J. type stuff. Like, so he'll be back. I think when does Verlander make his start? Like, very soon.

Starting point is 00:34:42 Yeah, he's in route. I'm not worried about the Asherll. You know that. Yeah. I know you know that I know that. Let's do, I think I might have found the jazz song. Let's do a little interleague baseball, and it's brought to you by Tommy John.

Starting point is 00:35:08 You know. You know people. I don't even, I don't need the sheet. Because I Tommy John every day. We had to do a couple, again, not looking at the sheet, which they'd love me to share some of this info about their second skin underwear, how luxurious it is, how it makes everything feel better down there. What I want to tell you is our socials team was like,

Starting point is 00:35:31 hey, I think we got to do an Insta story. Like, you know, do you have your Tommy Johns on? I say, yeah, every day. Obviously. Showed that in the story. I screwed up one of the, of the stories. The next day, social steam comes up to me and they're like, oh, you were supposed to say this and not this. Uh, so maybe bring your Tommy John's tomorrow. I was like, I'm,

Starting point is 00:35:55 this is no joke. I'm strapped. I'm wearing them. Every day with my Tommy John, go give them a shot and they are giving out, wow, big anniversary sale for Tommy John. Save 25% site wide. That's pretty good at Tommy John.com slash talk. 25% off for a limited time at Tommyjohn.com slash talking. There's a link in the description. Again, on the YouTube, I will show everyone. I'm Tj and Trev. As you're showing, I'm curious, there they are.

Starting point is 00:36:31 You know, the Tommy Johns have the wider kind of opening in the front, or at least the ones that I have, dude. Do you use that, or are you still pulling down from the band? For what are we talking about? Going to the restroom. I still go from the band, if I'm being honest. Still go from the band. Interesting.

Starting point is 00:36:50 I've kind of gone back and more than them. So it's kind of like a party. I don't know what I'm going to do. Yeah. It's however I feel. Who am I? So go check that out. Wow.

Starting point is 00:37:03 Let's do a little interleague. One series, I really... The San Francisco Giants went to play the Tampa Bay Rays. The Snell Redemption Series. But unfortunately, goes the other way. Snell gets knocked for seven earned runs. It's the most he's ever given up at the drop. And this was as an opponent, Tyler Anderson, with a nice bulk outing in that final game. Giants won the Logan Webstar, sure, and they put 11 on the scoreboard. Lamont Wade, Tyro Estrada,

Starting point is 00:37:38 the young prince, two homer day at the office. But the race won the series. Harold Ramirez, Ahmed Rosario with a nice homer, Paredes. We were like, laughing this morning. Harold Ramirez, big boy, he can run. Eighty-eighth percentile speed. We like that a lot. Race. Holdserve. My favorite series from the weekend. The Brewers take two out of three from Baltimore in Baltimore. God, that first night it's Jackson Holiday T-shirt giveaway, a prospect, a kid. And the brew crew spit on it. 11 to 1. Freddie Peralta drops it. Adamas, Joey Ortiz, remember that trade? Gary homers, Contreras home. Things get a little chippy with Adleris and Adley. Put it into my veins. The next day, the Orioles, they get a lead against D.L.

Starting point is 00:38:34 Hall, who they traded away. But then the brew crew bop back, Willie Adamas, Reese Hoskins, and Jake Bowers with the moon shot. So they go for the sweep. The Orioles haven't been swept since Adley's been called up and they still ain't been swept. The Orioles get a little relentless on them late. Big rally off of Abner Uribe. This whole game was back and forth. The whole series was like camping. It's intense.

Starting point is 00:39:04 Rockies went to Toronto. Kelsey Wingerst Rocks talked to her on the phone and they blew them out. Day one. Kevin Gossman, what is going on? Rockies put up a 12 spot. McMahon Rogers Jones Zeke Tovar homers

Starting point is 00:39:22 Blue Jays They come back the next two games Barrio seven innings Zero earn runs Yarrio Rodriguez Makes his MLB debut Some different arm slots We're having fun

Starting point is 00:39:34 Let's see Varsho homered in that First and second game Justin Turner three hits They get it done Royals and Mets Some fun baseball Severino and the boys

Starting point is 00:39:46 They win that first game game and the last game they survived Cole Reagan's Jose Butto Budo Budo Budo uh jakey butto on that one uh royals put up 11 in that middle game salvy Perez Homer Bobby Witt flying around the bases uh play at the plate in that last game salvi has to come out root for big Sal always reds they sweep you know that gets me excited it was the white Sox some good lefty pitching Andrew Abbott and Nick Ladolo in those first games. Ellie's all over the place, Spencer Steer, Rake Freely, and Nick Martini keeps it going. They sweep the White Sox.

Starting point is 00:40:30 The Oakland A's people, you heard before, they win their third straight series. Your guy Lawrence Butler with the walkoff in that first game, McKenzie Gore, 11 punches in the second. But then Elba again. In the final game, Hayes, 7, 6, and they win the series. And then some Cubbies, Mariners, Mariners, they win the first game. Bryce Miller drops it on them, 6.1-0 earned runs. Ty France and Julio with some RBIs. But then that Mariners' offense are the Cubs pitching Shoda and Minaga keeps it going.

Starting point is 00:41:09 Michael Bush, we're becoming Michael Bush fans on this show. He goes two for four with a homer in the next. next two games, Cubs, they take two out of three from Seattle. Seattle. Yikes. And that's what happened in the Interleague. Nice job, Jake. No standings in the Interleague. You already did them. Just everyone knows. I listened to the snippet. And?

Starting point is 00:41:37 You know, typically this genre is sort of in my lane. If you don't have anything nice to say, I was told not to say it at all. I can't wait until after this show to listen to it. I sent it in the talking baseball chat. I saw it. Maybe, maybe I'll like it. Maybe we'll see. Teddy always wants me to play rap music. He's like, that's his thing. Stop playing country music, Dad.

Starting point is 00:41:59 Why can't I? I think he thinks rap is like, almost like forbidden fruit because I'm like, hey, man, like a lot of times these rap songs have bad words and I don't really want to play it for you. But every once in a while, like, I'm feeling froggy. Like, I need to listen to some rap music. He's all right there. He loves the whole, right now Teddy loves the whole, uh, Dre, Kendrick Lamar, Beef.

Starting point is 00:42:17 Ooh. I kind of like gave him a little rundown about what that means, like what beef means in the rap world, and he's just all about it. It's all about it. It's awesome. God damn it, Teddy. There's the update.

Starting point is 00:42:29 Well, speaking of kids, we had the two Jackson's tee it up in Baltimore. I was excited before the series for this. Obviously, these teams, the Corbyn Burns trade, D.L. Hall, Joey Ortiz. You got the two Jackson's. You got the young pups.

Starting point is 00:42:46 You got two teams that are playing really. well. Man, something about the Brewers. I mentioned Friday night. My night was open because the Yanks got rained out. The feeling in that stadium was kind of gross. This was Jackson Holiday. We want to get the first hit.

Starting point is 00:43:07 His dad's here. Cal's in the building. Everyone's got Jackson Holiday shirts. And Freddie P. and the boys put up an 11 spot. Then do it the next day. We had a little tussle in this one. This was really fun. The Sunday game, man.

Starting point is 00:43:27 Brewers almost had the sweep, but that Baltimore lineup, they get it done when they had to at the end of the game. So I was, whew, I was a little, I was a 20-year-old Jackson watching this series. What does that mean? I was juiced up, man. Okay, okay, okay. I get the, hey, so this is the team I was talking about. the brew crew, I think that the new bad boys of baseball.

Starting point is 00:43:51 Really? And I think it's Reese Hoskins' fault. Like, think about Reese and the teams that he's been on, the Phillies while he was there. Very chippy. Yeah. Very chippy. Got that, like, you know, that Philly grit, you know, playing in the NLEs. They kind of had to, you know, develop some scar tissue, you know, going up against the Braves and all the things they accomplished there.

Starting point is 00:44:13 Like, I think Reese brought that over to the Brewers. because if you look at who was leading the way with the brookery, I mean, Yelie's not typically a guy that's going to, you know, be mad or upset at people. He plays very even keel. Off the field, he is a little different. Off the field, he's not afraid to have a little, you know, fight in him. But on the field, he plays very calm, cool, and collected. Willie Adomis, I think has a little bit of that in him.

Starting point is 00:44:38 But, like, I think he was tempered down, you know, a lot of the time. Like, that wasn't the team's ammo. And you know what? I think it wasn't Craig Counsel's ammo. But you bring in Reese Hoskins and you put Murph Dog at the helm and now all of a sudden we got a big scuffle, you know,

Starting point is 00:44:56 against the Mets and now, you know, whether I don't even know what happened because after the game, Willie Domas, James McCann, nobody said anything. But they're playing with that like chip on their shoulder. Like come fucking beat us. And I

Starting point is 00:45:12 love it, man. I love when that happens right now, Jake, if I to tell you that the Milwaukee Brewers were the second best offensive team in the league, would you call me a liar? You can't because they are a coach. They are almost right up there with the Atlanta Braves, 290, 358, 480 for an 838 OPS as a team. And that's without their guy, Jackson, Truro, having a great start to the year. Like their lineup is long. All those young guys they have there

Starting point is 00:45:41 are starting to produce. You know, Yelly is having, obviously, a banner start to the season. Like this team, when their back is against the wall, when they don't have all the pieces that they, you think they should have. It's like they rally together. And I think when you add in a Reese to that, I think it changes the dynamic here.

Starting point is 00:46:04 They're just playing, they're playing a little harder, if you will. Every at bat. I mean, it's part of the reason why I love the Orioles. It's just every at bat. It doesn't feel like anyone, gives in it bat away and the brewers had that i i mean Blake perkins who went to sack bunt at one point

Starting point is 00:46:25 it's kind of right over the plate and it gets called foul homers next pitch um he's been hitting like nuts brice one dot in it bryce tereng like we've talked about freelick um yeah man i i was impressed every at bat uh it didn't feel like they gave you an inch um Which, man, with the Brewers, normally it's like, hey, they're going to pitch, and Freddie did that, and even the other guys. We've been talking about the Brewers' offense lacking for years. We need one more bat.

Starting point is 00:47:02 We need something to get, like, come give us somebody. And Reese right now, 827 OPS, I think he's got more on the tank, but he's more of what the doctor ordered with the Brewers. And they're responding, man. It's a lot of fun. Anything on the Orioles side of it? I mean, they, I don't know. Corbyn Perns really had to work through his

Starting point is 00:47:28 his innings just to survive that Milwaukee offense. They kicked it to Canoe early, and he was the guy that got hit by Perkins, Dirty Craig, with a nice save on the back end. It was Kimbril. It got a little nervous for a minute. I'll say snaps to Jackson Holiday for getting his first hit. That's it.

Starting point is 00:47:51 I said when he came up, I think this is such a compelling story because either we're seeing a guy who's going to come light the world on fire and we're looking at one of the next baseball greats or, you know, a perennial all-star or, you know, like, this guy hasn't been hype for good reason. His minor league numbers, he's not just hype because of his name. Like, this guy has put up absolutely banger numbers, getting pushed along the way the entire time being one of the youngest guys in each league. When that happens, you take notice.

Starting point is 00:48:18 That's how you get top prospect status. typically those numbers do translate to the major leagues. I mean, you're going to, he's not going to one-dot it throughout his career like he did in the minor leagues, but like those, some of the skills he has will translate. But I said, you know, when you come up, the story is compelling because he's either going to light the world on fire or he's in a struggle. And we're going to talk about how hard baseball is and how difficult the major leagues is and how different it is. The pressures, you know, the onslaught of just armed talent that there is in the league. And that's what we've seen so far.

Starting point is 00:48:48 swing looks good in my opinion he's just kind of he's been overmatched a little bit and some of that is just eagerness you know a little bit too jumpy at times like i think we'll see him start to slow things down as he he collects the first hit that's always a big you know chip off the shoulder what do they call is that even the right expression chip on the shoulder wait off my shoulder wait off the shoulder that's what i meant to say people once you get your knock you say okay i can do it I bet if you look at his bat's going forward, they'll be a little bit more calm,

Starting point is 00:49:23 he'll be a little bit more selective, he won't miss the pitches he's supposed to hit. It's just something happens when you finally break through and get that knock. You feel like you belong, even if it's for a single or whatever. It's just, okay, I got it. That's done with, let's go play ball.

Starting point is 00:49:40 I think we'll see a different Jackson holiday coming up here in the next couple weeks. Yeah, I know. I was watching his red side. first game and, you know, he had a couple hitter counts and he got one or two pitches that I'm guessing Jackson Holiday in the future would do some damage on and I think he swung and the helmet came off. Like, you know, it's hard to control those emotions, man, especially when your 20. Your heart is beating out of your chest. Yeah. So I don't know. And dude, I, again, I know

Starting point is 00:50:11 I ended up mocking it just a little bit, but, you know, they don't do a lot of T-shirt giveaways for rookies making their debut. And again, this is some weird circumstance because he's top prospect. The Orioles kind of messed with his service time just a little bit, but not fully. But yeah, man, I mean, you got a stadium of people wearing a shirt with your face on it. The biggest, you know, probably the biggest crowd you've played in front of at this point. Cal Ripkin sitting with your dad. Oh, man.

Starting point is 00:50:40 That's a lot going on. A lot of Orioles fans came and have said the reason they kept him down is because, because they face six lefties to start the year, and they didn't want to expose him to that. So if that's the truth, then okay. I mean, maybe they told him that, hey, man, after a week you're probably going to be up. I don't know. We'll see.

Starting point is 00:51:01 We will see. Shout out Colton Kouser, who just... You like that. I'll be on the back burner. You don't got to talk about me. Nobody's got to talk about me. I'm just going to sit and hit bombs. He's a threat.

Starting point is 00:51:14 Four homers to start the year. He's 24 years old. hitting 441, 474 OBP right now. Like, so we talk about people. This is like the length in your lineup goes when you have the young guys come up and perform. Like, it's, Orioles need that.

Starting point is 00:51:31 A big old guy with a big old beard. Colin Couser. Let's see, Trev, when I look at this board, I think, again, the Mets are playing a different brand of baseball since the start of the year and so have the Royals. That was a fun series. Yeah, I got the highlights from this series were good. The Bobby Whit Triple Man, you want to watch someone just fly around the bases?

Starting point is 00:51:56 It's insane. One of our favorite terms in the office has been in frame, talking about where you are when you're running the bases. All of us have a mental image when you're watching baseball of where you expect the runner to be during a certain play. Bobby Wood Jr. hit a ball in the gap that I expected him to see him rounding second in making the decision. He was already foot on the bag gone.

Starting point is 00:52:30 And it's like, oh, your speed is like that. He's a different kind of fast, yes. It's real speed with like running the bases is different sometimes. And all this to be said, the Mets out survive Cole Reagan's on the last say the Mets are a game under 500 and we were basically, the Mets wanted us to bury them to start the season. And they're back in the mix. I want to give a little shot.

Starting point is 00:52:58 Well, first of all, Pete Alonzo's a dang monster. Like, he top spins balls out of the park. I don't understand how he does it. The ball just doesn't stop. It doesn't stop. I'm like, oh, that's going to get down me off the wall. And it's just like halfway up the first deck and someone's going to die if that ball hits him. It's hit so hard with so much spin on.

Starting point is 00:53:16 it's crazy. Pay the man is money. Jose I was going to I was going to put him in my award. But I have a different direction I took. So I do want to highlight him a little bit. He's at a really good start to the year. He's like a fastball heavy guy.

Starting point is 00:53:36 Throws it almost 60% of the time. He's got two. He's got a four seamer and a sinker. He's only even even have one hit on both those pitches. and that was on the sinker. And this guy doesn't light the radar gun up. I mean, he's averaging 92, 93, but it's just effective.

Starting point is 00:53:57 He's had a hell of a start to the year, a great start against the Royals. And you just don't see that too often. You go on his baseball savant page. His fastball run values in the 98th percentile, but his VLOs in the 30th percentile. And that, you know, that gets my juices going a little bit, You know, it's not always about Velo.

Starting point is 00:54:15 We got all this talk about arms and max velocity, and then you got a guy like this doing it. And, you know, the young guy, 26 years old, Jose Buda. Shout out, man. I'm almost anti-Vilo now. You give me the guy that's pumping 92, 93, hitting some corners, mixing up the pitches. Oh, yeah.

Starting point is 00:54:36 Yeah, but does he have great extension, Trev, that makes his fastball play up? No, he's in the 28th percentile. Well, you know, some guy's fastball. the seam shifted wake. All right, enough, enough before we start attacking the nerds. Because I think some of that, I think a lot of that stuff is useful. We've gone too far.

Starting point is 00:54:53 I was laughing at a Glassnow's midgame interview during the, because that guy couldn't stop being Tyler Glassnow if he wanted to. And he's just giggling at the questions. And he's like, yeah, no, I mean, information's kind of great. Like, I look at it every pitch. It helps, but guys are getting hurt. It's kind of part of the job. All right.

Starting point is 00:55:19 Yeah, he's, I think it came out this morning. Chris Rose couldn't shut up about how great he was on the Chris Rose rotation. Just talking about this, he says, it's, everyone's offered their take on elbows and fastballs and all these things. He goes, Tyler went a completely different route. He thought it was kind of refreshing to hear. So go, go listen to that interview. He says it's one of the best he's ever done. I'm excited about that.

Starting point is 00:55:41 Another note on Tyler Glass now. Big Dodgers show this is, guys. Because they're always talking Dodgers. I'm getting my hot boy list ready. I pulled a group of women. Olivia and a couple of friends. Shout out, Crystal and Emily. And I said, is this guy hot?

Starting point is 00:56:01 I showed a picture of Tyler Glassnell. And they all were like, huh? Good interview, though. Is that shocking to you? Because it was shocking to me. I think my taste in men is way different than like... The whole package makes him hot. The fact that he's like a chill guy, the fact, you know, we talk about the mic.

Starting point is 00:56:23 You don't like the hair, Jim. That's what I'm starting to realize. Girls don't like the hair. You're either all in on it or you're not. 6-8. Okay. I think that's... That's kind of all I've got.

Starting point is 00:56:41 Again, that my yellow flag is up for the Mariners, but the whole AL West has kind of been choking a little bit, so I'm willing to put, you know, three weeks in my rearview eventually, but it's just not pretty, and maybe the Cubs deserve the flowers instead of the Mariners, not. I mean, are we hearing about Michael Bush later? No Michael Bush later. Someone else in this series you're hearing about later.

Starting point is 00:57:08 Yeah, I mean, shout out Michael Bush. He's made the most of his opportunity, you know, going out of it. I think he's homered in four straight games. games. I think we're hearing about him on baseball today a little bit later. But yeah, the Mariners still offensively struggling. And, you know, Julio has got to get it done. I mean, it's a, it's a horrendous start to the year for Julio Rodriguez. I mean, Jake, this guy's got a 441 OPS right now. We said this Mariners team goes if, if Julio goes. And right now, I mean, your best hitter is Josh Rojas and Dominant Canzel?

Starting point is 00:57:44 Who just got hurt? Tough wall collision. At this point, you've got to factor in April's. Yeah. This is not an April guy until further notice.

Starting point is 00:57:55 That's true. He just hasn't started the year off ever. This is extremely cold. 186 for a 441. Polanco is hitting under 200. J.P. Crawford is hitting under 200. Mitch Garver is hitting under 200.

Starting point is 00:58:07 Dillam Moore is hitting under 200. Newk Rayleigh is hitting under 200. Like this is obviously an offensively challenged team, but like I look at it. I'm like, they could get it going, but they just have not. And maybe I'm just wrong. Maybe my perception of them is just completely off. Because on paper, I look at this team and I say,

Starting point is 00:58:27 there's a lot of different ways they can beat you. I think they can be very good offensively, and they just haven't showed it yet. And I mentioned this, I believe, at our live show. And I'm going to check it again to see if, on an update right here. Let's see. Okay.

Starting point is 00:58:45 What do they want to do in the off season? Cut down on strikeouts. What are they doing right now? Third in the league in strikeouts. 167 strikeouts to 50 walks. It just hasn't happened for them. Good pitching cubsies and Michael Bush. Trev, let's go to the second half of the program

Starting point is 00:59:03 and let's do some standout performances. Standout performances. You go first. Brought to you, by the way. warehouse games. Go check out the warehouse games. We debuted a new one slapball. Uh, the views are going up and up and the people love it. It's kind of got backyard playing with your buddies vibes, a little handballish, uh, entertaining product. People are really loving it. So go check out the warehouse games YouTube channel. It's where all our Blitzball stuff is. Slap ball, ball and

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Starting point is 00:59:50 a freshie from last night. My standout, and I'm almost not happy with myself, because I think I'm doing double pitchers again, which is kind of, it's against who I want to be. But both stood out for me for the same reason.

Starting point is 01:00:08 Zach Gallin and Jose Burrios, my guy and your guy. two right-handed pitchers. Remember that later in the show. Two guys that got it done on Sunday to win the series. Seven innings, zero earned runs from Barrios, six innings, zero earn runs from gallons. La Machina, Uruguay, Burios, the Blue Jays.

Starting point is 01:00:37 You know, I talked about them hosting the Mariners and they had to start winning some series. Now they have. And he, like, their team identity is still looking to go. They're at 500. They host the Yanks, a big series there can get them their season kind of back fully on track. And the Diamondbacks, they were in a, again, they were in basically the exact same boat. They were seven and eight, and each of these teams win their game behind their guy to get to 500.

Starting point is 01:01:12 And that's a nice feeling. Win the series, get to 500. Both of them got it done. Two of my favorite pitchers to watch, you know, a big burrios guy. He's had an excellent start to the year. And both these guys are pitchers with stuff, which is like kind of the goal, right?

Starting point is 01:01:30 You want to be able to have good stuff, but also sequence well and locate well. And both these guys have been doing that and just who they are. So I love both those. We have been giving a lot of love to pitchers and the stand-up performances. as of late. Yeah, I'm sick of it. I'm going to slow it down after this. It's easy for them to stand down. At least you pick some good ones. There are some dogs out there this

Starting point is 01:01:51 year. Man, there's some guys that go out there every single time that have no-hit stuff. I'm going to talk about some in a few. My standout is going to Nolan Aeronado on Friday. Hit his first homer the year. Three for five, drove in three. And man, I guess we did speak about him on the live show, me and Chris, and Chris kind of challenged. to him like hey you got to get going a little bit here uh i looked at the power numbers this guy has like been a power guy throughout his career you can talk about the course uh effect but he's hit over 40 homers what i think three times in his career like this guy is a 35 to 40 homer guy a 520 career slugging guy and it just hasn't really been there you know in the last couple

Starting point is 01:02:37 years uh last year on base percentage was down 315 that hasn't always been his thing but the slugging down to 4.59. This year he's slugging 3.79. I know it's early on in the year, but he's a guy that needs to be in the middle of lineup, driving and run, putting the ball over the fence. And he just, he hasn't got it going yet. Hopefully Friday is the mark of that.

Starting point is 01:03:02 Right now, interestingly enough, I mean, this guy's already been worth 54 career baseball reference war. He's a negative war player right now. I know it's early on and what does that even mean? It just means that, He hasn't started off hot. But for my Cardinals, who I picked to win the NL Central, like, he's got to be like, he's got to be the guy.

Starting point is 01:03:22 So, Nolan, congratulations on your Friday. Keep going. I was about to say that they have a quote-unquote get-right series at Oakland, but that hadn't been right for the last three teams that have teed up. The last three-two series against them, Oakland Athletics. him and Goldie 36-year-old Goldie Aronado 32

Starting point is 01:03:43 He's struggling too, huh? Aronado 32 coming off his year You can look at that two different ways Like Brendan Donovan's been playing good Mason Wins picked it up a little bit of late That if those guys can go Lars Neupar just came back If they can get right against Oakland

Starting point is 01:04:03 Off Day And then they'll host Milwaukee in Arizona So St. Louis will get tested. Tested coming up. Trev, God, there's a lot of guys. Nick Martini ended up back on the sheet. Tyro Estrada, Willie Adamas, Fernando. I wish I could do that voice better.

Starting point is 01:04:26 But everyone knows where you want to end up. Dirt Nasty's on Fuego. That means I'm on fire, baby. Like Waco. Oh my goodness. All right, people, for the series. And we talked about this guy a little bit, polar bear. Pete for the New York Mets went five for nine, three homers, four ribbies.

Starting point is 01:04:49 He recorded his 20th multi-homer game, too shy of Daryl's Met's record. If you're in left field, watch out, people. Don't take your eye off of the game when Pete is up to bet. We mentioned this guy already. Chicago Cup first baseman Michael Bush gets the opportunity. See you, Dodgers. Let me play a little bit for God's sake. Six for 12, a double three homers, four ribbies.

Starting point is 01:05:13 Four straight games with a homer. The Cubs franchise record for consecutive games is five. It's held by four players, including your guy, Christopher Morel, who did it last season. We mentioned Ozuna as well. He went seven for 13 in this series. A double, two homers, eight ribbies. He's the first player on Enfuego twice this season. Dalton didn't want to put him on the sheet, but he's just two in fuego.

Starting point is 01:05:37 Tu fuego, Papi. Masen fuego. Mass and fuego. Much. All right, for the week. All right, there's some people here. There's one guy that's not in my book. Yeah. On the sheet here. Josh Naylor is in my book.

Starting point is 01:05:53 For the week, he went nine for 20, two doubles, three homers, seven RBI. That's a 450 average. He's at a 1.577 OPS. Jose Burrios talked about him. He had two games started during this week. 13 and two-thirds in his pitch. Only six hits, no earned. runs. Three walks, two of those were hit by pitches, or are those different stats?

Starting point is 01:06:14 The hit by pitches count as a walk? No, those are separate stats. So I think it's three walks and two hit by pitches. I'm going to start, if I'm a pitcher, I go 3-0 on someone, I'm just going to hit him. I don't want walks on my record. Gross. 13Ks. He's had a great, great start to the year. He extended his scoreless inning streak to 15 and 2 thirds on Saturday. Here's the guy that did not having my book. And this is a great name. Red Garrett, with two D's. I don't think it's read. It's got to be red, right? Red Garrett. Yeah, I wish I was more familiar. I'm about to get familiar. Yeah, I'm sorry. I think his name is Reed Garrett, and that's a misspell. Okay. Okay, it's Reed with two E's. And he's... I just

Starting point is 01:07:02 Ron Bergen did it. What are you doing to me, Dahl? I know Reed Garrett. I didn't know Red Garrett. I should have caught that on my own there. I was excited about Red Garrett. I was like, who's the guy? The Red Garrett was a ball player. He sounded like a 1920s ball player. Anyways, Reed Garrett. Our apologies, my good friend, that was just really stupid of me. Three and two thirds. Hicks pitched. Only one hit, one walk, and he did strike out seven dudes. That's how you get the job done. Shout out, Reed. For the two weeks, people, this is the one you want to be on. And we might be talking about one of these guys later. But first, Yordon Alvarez, who I think is, I don't know,

Starting point is 01:07:40 maybe the best pure hitter in all the baseball. I don't, like, probably. You got somebody else on the top of your mind? Freddy Freeman, maybe. It's Freddie, it's Seeger, it's Yordon. Yoron's an absolute tank. 18 for 46, three doubles, four homers, 12 RBIs, eight walks, 391, average, 1.2ing it over those two weeks.

Starting point is 01:08:05 he's just a freaking animal man he really is Shota Imanaga we'll talk about him in a little bit he's the first Cubs pitcher since 1913 to begin his career with three straight appearances of at least four games pitch

Starting point is 01:08:17 and zero earned runs and then Texas reliever yeah excuse me yeah Jacob Plats six games pitched eight and a third only four hits

Starting point is 01:08:31 only two walks to eight case he's got a point 7-2 whip and a zero ERA. Shout out Jacob Lats. And that's his enfuego. A couple multi-innings there out of the bullpen. That can, that changes the team series. That changes their week, man.

Starting point is 01:08:50 Fantastic Infuego, Trev, per always, best segment of the show. Which brings the least favorite segment of the show, the IL update. Luckily, knock on wood. Well, I was going to say not a ton of huge names, but there's always names. Carlos Correa got banged up, Trev. And I think it's like an intercostal in between the ribs,

Starting point is 01:09:15 which I've had, and it's not as bad as an oblique, but it hurts. Just a little weird one. And Treve, oh my God, Bobby Miller. This is like... Yeah, it hurts. It hurts. This is your nightmare. A couple other guy, Marco Gonzalez. We talked a lot about Pittsburgh pitching this episode.

Starting point is 01:09:34 episode. And probably the biggest one heard around the league was Brock Burke. Pitcher punch his wall. Wasn't his pitching hand. Wasn't his pitching hand, but he still, I think he broke it. So, um, pitchers, I don't know, man. Maybe implement, like, a team punching wall or something. Like, buy a padded. Or just, like, control the emotions a little bit. I don't know. No way. I don't know. No.

Starting point is 01:10:06 It's baseball, bro. I don't want that. I get it. I've been so freaking pissed off sometimes. I understand. But punching a wall is the next level stupid thing to do. What was the most mad you were on the baseball?

Starting point is 01:10:17 The wall's never going to lose. Just so you know. Wall's there for the most part. Most mad you've been on a baseball field. Does anything jump out? I mean, a lot of times, like, just with my play, I've been frustrated. I think the maddest I ever got was,

Starting point is 01:10:32 I don't know, I got sent down maybe in like, 2011 or something like that and I wasn't good I don't even know why I was so mad but I felt like I just got called up and I got like zero run and then I just got sent down again and I'd been up and down like five or six times and last time I got so mad I actually did punch a wall so what am I talking about but it was a dry wall I pushed through it forgot about that it was right outside gardenhauer's office I was so fucking mad Everyone's got to punch a wall.

Starting point is 01:11:07 I punched the wall, but it was drywall, and I missed the stud, so I made a good indent in it. And then I had to talk with our assistant GM after the game, I said, look, man, if I'm not going to be part of your team's plans, so get me out of here. Nice. Like, I feel like I'm a big leaguer, and I'm not getting, like, a chance. He's like, you are part of the future, you are. And I am. I was. Look at that.

Starting point is 01:11:30 So I guess I apologize to everyone who's ever punched a wall, because I did it. Now you're like the king of Minnesota. man. Returning from the I.L. Kirkering in that Philippine, teal bar in Minnesota. I think Lorenzen's supposed to serve tonight for Texas. The other big one, Nick Ladolo. Not a ton of Reds love. They swept the white socks, which I unfortunately think that's a little bit of a white

Starting point is 01:11:56 socks problem this episode. Lodolo came back and he looked good, which for the Reds, their question marks are usually more pitching than hitting. So let's see what that looks like for them. Uh, Trev, let's start everyone's week the right way. Brought to you by Kelsey Winger. And the Draft King sports book. Draft Kings make sure, oh my goodness, the 82 game, quote unquote, preseason,

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Starting point is 01:13:43 Okay. Did you see on the Masters yesterday? It was Morikawa and Sheffler, and they were about the same distance I think off the green. One was in the bunker, one was on the fringe,

Starting point is 01:13:53 and they did a little tea off to see who like went first. It's fun. Flip the tea. I thought like this was hilarious. Like end of the Masters, Amen Corner and they're flipping the tea. That's just good old fashion,

Starting point is 01:14:05 fun golf stuff. Some gentlemen's golf. Yeah, so I'll take it though. Please. So mine I'm going to start with a little bit of music You know just like a remembrance of a beautiful song And we were singing it before the show

Starting point is 01:14:20 It's by the An artist Goteer Yeah Which man I've seen that Like spelled out in front of me a million times Never heard it said out loud I had to go check the pronunciation Not what I have thought

Starting point is 01:14:33 It would have been G-O-T-Y-E Got E Believe so Go-E Got E I think it's Goodye. Goatee.

Starting point is 01:14:42 Goatee. Anyways, he's an Australian songwriter, and if you don't know, he had this song, you promise you were to sing it for me. Ready? Now we're just some lefties that you need to know some lefties.

Starting point is 01:14:59 Is that what you want? Okay. Kind of. Yeah. Yeah, so that song's somebody that you used to know. I did hear it come on this weekend, so I was inspired a little bit.

Starting point is 01:15:10 by that. It's a really good song. It really is a good song. It's a really, really good song. So let me go back and give it a listen. Give this guy a couple of streaming pennies. You stream that song, I think you get like a penny each time or something like that. Anyways, yeah, as I was searching for a title for this award, I said, okay, I like that song and let's give these guys

Starting point is 01:15:30 the audience, three lefties that they need to know. Crush that. Three lefties that have been on my radar this year that you probably haven't been paying too much attention to and you probably should. I think one of them, which I'll start with show to Imanaga of the Cubs. I think a lot of people have been paying attention to him, but how closely have they been paying attention to this guy? He's been nuts, dude.

Starting point is 01:15:54 15 and a third innings pitched, nine hits, one unearned run, two walks, 16 strikeouts, 0.7 whip, 1-55 FIP. I mean, the guy has been everything and more. to the Chicago Cubs team. I picked him to win rookie of the year. I just thought there was less of a resistance there than maybe like a Yamamoto. He's been fantastic, dude.

Starting point is 01:16:22 Control, stuff, sequencing, funk. He kind of has a little bit of it all. He makes guys look bad at the plate. Guys are figuring out what to do against him, and it's a lot of fun to watch him pitch. I know Cubs fans know that if you haven't, tuned in to one of his starts, go ahead and do it. He's got like a little bit of Nestor funk.

Starting point is 01:16:44 You know, he'll change up the timing from time to time. But really, he's a pitcher. And it's nasty to watch. So there's your first lefty that you need to know. I started off with the guy that most people would know. I'll go number two. If you've watched the A.O. West in recent years, you've seen this guy. Read Detmers of the Los Angeles.

Starting point is 01:17:09 angels. Now, if you've watched him pitch, you know this guy like has no hit stuff. Like at any given moment, this guy could just go out and blank you for seven endings. This problem has been command and like, you know, kind of in a Blake Snellish way, like a lot of, he'll get into a lot of heavy counts and not be able to like finish guys and put him away right away. And then, you know, the walks will happen and he'll get into some trouble. It has not been that way this year. He's leading the league in strikeouts per nine, 13 and a half strikeouts per nine. He hasn't given up a homer yet. He leads the league in FIPP, and that by friends is fielding independent pitching. That's the stat that most pitchers love to go to. 17 in the third innings pitch. He's

Starting point is 01:17:55 only given up two runs. He struck out 26 people and only given up six walks in those 17 inning. So he's figuring that out. It's the lowest walks per nine of his career so far. The strikeouts are way up and he's another guy that's fun to watch when he's on and locating that fastball at the top of the zone it's got like crazy crazy life on it and then the the curveball from him and I don't know I don't know if he spins the crap out I'm assuming that he does that thing is so tight he might be the guy that gets the worst swings in all of the big leagues that thing that thing will be thrown 45 feet and they'll have rioties flailing at it because it's it comes out of the same tunnel as his fastball but they go drastically different ways so if you're just a guy that's like saying

Starting point is 01:18:49 okay fastball at the top of the zone i keep chasing that fucking pitch i got to get the ball down and then that pitch comes out and it just spins like a heater and it's down i'm gonna swing and all of a sudden it doesn't even make it even close to the plate. He's a very fun watch. Has he thrown a no-hitter in his career? I think he either has a no-no or combined no-no. That happened. Every single time that he goes out, there's a chance.

Starting point is 01:19:20 If he can get it and have enough pitches to get through the game, go check him out in what he's been able to do. And the last guy, by lefties that you need to know, this guy's probably the one that's not on a lot of people. people's radar and it is my guy Cody Bradford of the Texas Rangers now talk about

Starting point is 01:19:40 pitchers right here okay this guy Jake pitching run value in the 99th percentile on baseball savant fastball Velo a fastball run value 98th percentile fastball Velo

Starting point is 01:19:55 6th percentile that is what I'm talking about he's averaging about 90 0.4 miles per hour on the heater. Another guy, four-seem, change-up, curveball, all over 15% of the time. He just locates and locates and locates. Right now, 19 and a third innings pitch, 17Ks. He's faced the Cubs, Houston, and then Oakland.

Starting point is 01:20:23 And he's gone over five innings pitch in each of those. 17 strikeouts, like I mentioned, only two walks on the year for the 247 FIP. and the whip at like, I think he's leading the big leagues right now in WIP at like 0.68. So these guys are all getting the job done. They're all pitchers. They kind of attack a little bit differently,

Starting point is 01:20:44 but three guys that you need to know. My lefty guys getting it done. I wanted to shout him out. I love it, Trev. I clicked around on all their baseball savants while you were talking. All three of them are throwing the fastball 49% of the time or more.

Starting point is 01:21:00 and like you mentioned Bradford and Shota do not light up the radar gun they're both sitting actually Shota he can he's got it Shoda can't he sits 93 and he's thrown at 67% of the time it's so funny the Shoda scouting report

Starting point is 01:21:20 you know soft tossing lefty like she we heard it in spring training from guys at face him they're like this guy's fucking nasty and he's been so far and like we, you know, WBC, these guys can play now. It's not as much of a crapshoe as it used to be. The Bradford stuff is great, and yeah, Detmer's has a chance to be a guy, guy, guy.

Starting point is 01:21:48 He is 24 years old. You know, he's... Just watching pitch, and you'll be like, oh, my goodness. Has the no-hitter under him. And I like that. I was nervous about the Snell comp at first, but... It's kind of the embarrassing factor. Like when Snell's right, you see guys swing at pitches that do not make it to the plate.

Starting point is 01:22:08 And Detmer's has that too. And his biggest change kind of currently this year to last year is his fastball got hit a little bit last year. This year it's not getting hit. So I don't know if that's a change he made or, you know, it is still early in the season. But, yeah, that stuff keeps up. Um That was May 10th, 2012.

Starting point is 01:22:31 He threw a no hit. 11th career start. How about that? Welcome to the show, kid. Uh, great award, Trev. The old, the old triple lefty goat yay.

Starting point is 01:22:42 Uh, award. Uh, shout out Australia. Shout out. Peter Moylan, our guy. Um, I was totally planning mid-episode.

Starting point is 01:22:52 I forgot if I had an award. So I was planning on giving some to L2 just because he went nuts to finish off that Texas series. And then I forgot I already had an award. I had the Jason Kendall Award. Jason Kendall, very famous talking baseball episode back in the day, day, COVID times. I think it was pretty early in the morning. Jason Kendall had a big dipper in and a couple bruskees with them.

Starting point is 01:23:19 Hey, it was COVID. Anything goes. We all the chilling. Anything went during COVID. We looked at Jason Kendall's base. baseball reference, and it was like, damn, Jason Kendall was a goddamn ball player. And his famed, 41 career war from Jason Kendall. My God.

Starting point is 01:23:37 And the other famous thing from Jason Kendall was he also spent a lot of, he spent some of his time leading off, which you don't really see from catchers. Now, we've seen a couple on-base guys. I think Adley might have snuck a couple in. Teams get creative a little bit. I saw William Contreras as a DH get up there yesterday. And that's who's getting the award, BPD. William Contreras, we talked a lot about the brewers, and we gave, you know, Yelly got some flowers in there,

Starting point is 01:24:03 and all the kids, a lot of the sophomores, Bryce Terang, and William Contreras has been bawling out this year, and like BBD mentioned, he did it from the lead-off spot yesterday against his former battery mate, Corbyn Burns, and he took him up top. Hey, good to see you, pal. Hey, hey, catcher, you're D.H in today,

Starting point is 01:24:30 and it's Corbyn Burns on the other side. He goes up top later in the game he gets on, and he swipes a bag off of Corbin Burns. So he, you know, sometimes we talk about knowing guys you play with and their hints, tips, or codes. I don't know what he had, but I do know that right now William Contreras is leading the national national lead and batting average.

Starting point is 01:24:55 He's got a 1.115 OPS, and he got trone in the lead-off spot against Corvin Burns yesterday, and he brought it to the table. It's the only game they lost, but not necessarily his doing. And I don't know. You know I've been on a big catchers matter kick. I've been on a big hitting matters more than we think kick, and William Contreras is hit in every part of that. So while the brew crew are doing their thing,

Starting point is 01:25:24 I want to make sure he's getting the love he deserves. William and Wilson, Contrars, both having great starts to the year. I think Wilson has got a 395 OBP, William 455 OBP. And wasn't, I mean, I'm just kind of blank on this right now I'm going down to it. He came from the Braves, right?

Starting point is 01:25:45 Yeah. They don't need him, obviously. But I always think about, like, good players that left a team. and like what that, what would they be the same? He was the Sean Murphy trade. They got Sean Murphy, so they didn't need him anymore. Here you go, Milwaukee.

Starting point is 01:26:02 Very, I'd love to get the full story on how they swooped in in that part of the trade. Because Milwaukee really just snuck in there. Ruiz to the trade right now. A's, right? Yeah. He came via Milwaukee. I mean, they also got Joel Pyeamps in that trade.

Starting point is 01:26:20 It's been a high leverage reliever for them. So that one is some Brewer's magic, man. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, he went to the Brewers, A's and Murphy to the Braves. Oakland sends Pye Ames to the Brewers, and then a bunch of other guys, and then Estrearie goes to Oakland from Milwaukee.

Starting point is 01:26:42 So Milwaukee sent Estuary Ruiz and got William Contreras? Contreras and Pyrams. Ruiz. They sent Ruiz. Is that it? And did they... Mani Pee?

Starting point is 01:26:58 That's all they sent was Ruiz to the A's. That's it. I think so. And William Contreras? What did it know? Hold on. Challenge flag. A's already had Lange Lears.

Starting point is 01:27:08 Challenge flag. Are we missing something? People, let us know in the comments. I don't think we are. My understanding is that that's correct. Is that the greatest trade, like maybe of all time? Rooker, man. What the hell?

Starting point is 01:27:28 They also got Justin Yeager. So. Look out for that. I don't know. I don't know. That's the app. That's the app. It's got to be.

Starting point is 01:27:41 Trevor, good luck at baseball today with Chris Rose. Excited to see you in the midweek. Let's have a great week. It's short's weather in the city, 77 today. Magic sucks. Do you think our AI episode is going to go down as one of our worst episodes ever? Like so bad that it's almost must walk. I have a second line.

Starting point is 01:28:07 I think it's iconic. I think when AI takes over, that'll be the number one episode pumped. Oh, my gosh. Stay in your lane, guys. Stay in your lane, guys. Stay in your lane.

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