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Starting point is 00:00:01 Hello and welcome to talking baseball. Only three Friday regular season episodes left, Trev. Bowden Francis, come on. Let's talk ball. Shodi Minaga. Hello and welcome to talking baseball. Present to you by Seekek. Go talking 10.

Starting point is 00:00:28 Go see a game. Go see a baseball game. Go see Bowden Francis throw a no hitter. Go see Yoshinobu Yamamoto. or show to Amanaga. How about the kids? Chorio, PCA, doing fun stuff. Trev, how are you?

Starting point is 00:00:48 Happy Friday the 13th. Yeah, I noticed that it was Friday the 13th today and I woke up to my beautiful wife shaking me, not for the reason I usually like, but because there was an after shock. So we've been getting, you know, some quakes out here. Yesterday we had a 5.1er and then a couple aftershocks after that. I don't know, man. The earth is moving

Starting point is 00:01:15 all the time underneath us. There's tectonic plates. We used to be one congealed continent called pangia. Now we're spread out, but eventually, Jake, it's all going to get connected again, Pop. And that's how melons are formed, which is crazy. And I don't want to get into that. welcome back to talking talking science seismic congealed

Starting point is 00:01:40 was that the right use of that word there I don't know but I think it works I think it works Pangia always is mind-blowing we can't we always try to start there we can't start there were there mountains on Pangia

Starting point is 00:01:53 wow I would guess no right I think I think yes because like there's still plates like underneath. I don't know, man. I'm always thinking, hey, man, when's the newest mountain range

Starting point is 00:02:09 going to be formed? Because I don't want to be part of that. Yes, the supercontinent, Pangea had a mountain rage called the central Pangean Mountains. The mountains were comparable in size to the Himalaya. This is all BS.

Starting point is 00:02:21 I'm out. I'm out. This is all BS. Oh, the mountains were as big as they did. They don't know anything, bro. They know nothing. No. We know all.

Starting point is 00:02:31 We're dating. We know. Let's just say buzzwords into AI until something happens. Trev. Dude, two weeks left. There's a new playoff team in the stimulator. Atlanta is out as of today. BPD's Mets are in.

Starting point is 00:02:57 It's going to be a hostile month or something. especially you and me. I'm already sick of Jolly all. We've got a blitzball battle coming up next week. The Mets are kind of good. Yankees twins, are they going to tee it up this postseason? We'll see.

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Starting point is 00:04:40 But because it's Friday and the tectonic plates are moving, we're starting in L.A. baby. And we had a historic night, I don't know. Shoday Minaga and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who's back for the Dodgers, yo. Check out for that come postseason time. The Cubs and Shoda. got the better of Shohei.

Starting point is 00:05:05 Some fun matchups there. Shohei got one to the track, but not far enough. The Cubs took the first two games. Treves Michael Bush. Boogity, boogity, boogity, boogity, four-hit day, three RBI, belly three RBI. The next day, PCA is all over the field. And Sea Suzuki, kind of like, hey, I'm here too, guys. Like, come on, I've been raking.

Starting point is 00:05:30 Dodgers, they get the last game because Tommy E. Edmund's now just homering every at bat. Not sure what that's about. Hey, St. Louis. Cubs take two out of three and kind of stay alive. We'll get into Trevor Plufe's standings in a little bit. The Tampa Bay Rays and the Philadelphia Phillies played three in the Phillies, swept them, and Edwin Yucetta and Nick Castellanos paired up for one of the best breakdowns of the year.

Starting point is 00:05:59 Trevor Plouffe put his stamp on it. A fun one there, and then you know Castellanos with a deep flock drive to left on 9-11. Crazy. It's crazy how that keeps happening. Phillies, they win two one-run games on the bread games. Cody Clemens with a walk-off as he's filling in for them. Brewers, they take two out of three from the Giants, and that's obvious, unfortunately. How about a little pitchers do well at the end?

Starting point is 00:06:28 Frankie Montas against Hayden, Show Me Your Bird Song. Both of them allowed zero earn runs, but the Brewers get it done in Jackson Cherio. Youngest player to ever go 2020. Might be a big October for him. It's been a big second half. Snell had another good start.

Starting point is 00:06:47 He's going to be an interesting conversation. Maybe this off-season, opt-in, opt-out? I don't know. Giants. Yee. De-backs won two games against the Texas. Rangers, Walker, Jock, Eugenio, Coutel Marday, Adrian del Castillo, Randall Gritchick. They all homered in the two games.

Starting point is 00:07:08 They put up a 14 burger in game two after shutting out Texas in game one. But hey, Jacob de Grom's coming back. What's that about? Braves and Nats split two. Reynaldo Lopez leaves with injury scary, but the Braves put up a 12 spot and shut out the Nats. But then my Jake Swervin'Urvin holds the Braves down against Treves, Max Freed. C.J. Abrams with a homer in that game. They split two.

Starting point is 00:07:38 Cardinals and Reds play. Did you watch? Cardinals, they took two out of three after the Reds won the first game. Hey, Red Louter Hive, raise up, five-innings shutpiece. But then Pig O'Langell, Lance Lynn, Goldie, and Aeronado. That's the formula, babe. sunny gray with a nice start in that final game as donovan with the pinch hit homer and mason win goes big fly and the series everyone's talking about the pirates sweep the marlins

Starting point is 00:08:06 uh trab's going to tell you about valente belozo's start uh i'm gonna oller at your boy with adam oller zavion curry with the bulk in the last game uh who i saw a name johnny pareda had three hits playing catcher not in my book welcome to the the show, Johnny. You now are. Paul Skeens Day and Andrew McCutcheon-Homers. We love that. That's what happened in the national. Great job, Poppy. Great job. Andrew McCutcheon-Homers. It's mid-September, you know?

Starting point is 00:08:40 He's got 20. Yeah. Hey, shop.jomboimedia.com, if you want to look sweet like I do today. Great job with the National League. Pop, do you want the standing? This is going to be a tight show. I want everyone to know that. Jake has a hard out for a leader. meeting. I'll give me the standings.

Starting point is 00:08:58 Was that five-hour energy Reed just built for me? You and Jose Al-Tuva, who used to be their MLB spokesman, maybe still is, not sure. Not sure. But you guys,

Starting point is 00:09:08 very similar. Bebers, I'm going to give you a job while I read the standings. Please get JJ Putz's baseball reference photo on the screen so everyone can just enjoy

Starting point is 00:09:18 the facial hair. And I will get into the National League standings and because it's Friday the 13th, we're going to get spooky, Jake. real spooky and start out east

Starting point is 00:09:27 with those Philadelphia Phillies. They're 88 and 58, eight games above the Mets who are 80 and 66 who are above the Braves by a game. They're 79 and 67. Look at that thing. What do you call that, Jake? What do you call that?

Starting point is 00:09:44 Alpha. That's what you don't want to see that in the ninth inning. That's not a sole patch. Maybe that it's a massive soul patch. That's a sole tee. That's a sole t. patch and a goatee. It looks like a home plate on his chin.

Starting point is 00:09:59 It does. He's JJ Putts, John Boy Media guy. I think his, I saw him at the Diamondbacks game and his kids big fans too, so pretty cool. $38 million. What's in his basement? I don't know. A lot of sense. Anyways. Brave, 79 and 67,

Starting point is 00:10:18 Nat, 65 and 81, then those Marlins, 55 and 92. We'll go to the Central or the Milwaukee Brewers at the very moment. They have a magic number of seven. It's magic number season people. 84 and 62, nine games above the Cubs who are 75 and 71.

Starting point is 00:10:36 The Cardinals, two games over five, you got to love it. Let's go birds. Two birds on a bat. 74 and 72. The Reds, what happened to the Reds? 71 and 77 and Pittsburgh 70 and 76. Out west, the Dodgers are five games up

Starting point is 00:10:51 on the Debecks. They're 87 and 59. Debex. 82 and 64, a half game above the Padres who are 82 and 65, the Giants 72 and 75 and the Rockies 55 and 92. And as you mentioned, Jake, there is a new team in the stimulator. The N.L. Wildcard goes like this. Diamondbacks have the one slot. Half game up on the Padres, who have a one and a half game lead on

Starting point is 00:11:19 the New York Mets, now occupying the third spot. They're a game above Atlanta, five games above Chicago, and six games above St. Louis will hear what BPD has to say about them, and those are the standings in the National League. Trev, no one does it. No one does it like you. Nobody. Nobody. I'm worried about the earthquakes again. Stay safe. Holdie, my house was built in the 1960s. Right. It's like what stood the test of time. Fires, heavy rains in two. and whenever that was, 22. That's good.

Starting point is 00:11:59 Yeah. Mets. Okay. See, this is just wrong. Mets with a 55.8% chance to make the playoffs, which would make me think the Braves would be under 50% using fan graphs. It has the Braves at 56.5%. That's...

Starting point is 00:12:23 I don't, dude. Don't ask about it. Yeah, that's right. That's right. All I know is I made this point on, I guess it was, I don't know when I made this point. Maybe with C. Rose. Maybe it was on this show. I do so many baseball shows.

Starting point is 00:12:35 People are sick of me. But the Braves. It's an emotional episode. Excuse me, the Mets. Yeah. They got a gauntlet of a schedule coming up. I think this was this show we talked about. Maybe that's what is going on.

Starting point is 00:12:47 Again, percentages and I just don't get along. No. Seems to me like it's a coin flip, and I think it kind of does reflect that. Trev Yes Again great job on the standings We started out in L.A. And let's head out to L.A.

Starting point is 00:13:02 Where the Cubs are Man, it was tough looking at the standings And seeing that they're five games out I mean that's Less than two and a half weeks Like that's You need a lot of other stuff to go wrong To get in the mix

Starting point is 00:13:20 And maybe it'll happen And hey, they took two out of three From the Dodgers Which visiting L.A. that's that's as daunting as it gets. I think you're talking a little Michael Bush later. We had, again, the international flavor on the field for that Tuesday game was pretty special. What did you see out there?

Starting point is 00:13:44 Yeah, there's a good stats, I believe, on the page here talking about the matchup. It's only the second time that we've had four Japanese players facing off in the same game. the last time it happened was the Mariners versus the Yankees. And that was, let me see if I can remember this. I have it here, sorry. Ichero Suzuki, Kenji Jojima. I don't have him on a book.

Starting point is 00:14:08 I forgot about that guy. Wow. And then for the Yankees, it was Hideki and Kei Gawa, who I used to face an old AAA back in the day. I used to make him feel my wrath and went down in Rochester. So I just, I like that. And there was, you know, the respect between Shoda and

Starting point is 00:14:26 Otani before the bat which is really cool and I don't know man like I was talking to a waiter at a restaurant that I went to is I have my Shohey Otani shirt on nice and he was we were talking about

Starting point is 00:14:44 Shohei's Dodger fan he was Japanese and it was we were just talking about how guys now kind of coming over earlier in their careers over to America and how, you know, there's a one kid that I believe he's going to Stanford. And just guys coming over here and showcasing Japanese town is just, is, it's just awesome to me. And if you don't believe that that league is like on par with Major League Baseball, go check out the WBC every single year. Like, see who's coming out of that place. There's more guys coming that are, I mean, it's just awesome.

Starting point is 00:15:20 Like I am such a fan of international baseball and guys coming to the big leagues and disrupting everything. It's different styles of play. You love it. But it's not only that. It's like these guys are legit. There's some right hand over there.

Starting point is 00:15:36 I don't know his name. I only cover Major League Baseball. But he throws like a zillion miles an hour. He's going to come over here and shove it. Roki. I can't wait. Roki Sasaki. Sasaki.

Starting point is 00:15:46 I had that on a tip of my tongue. There's a chance he comes over this offseason. We'll talk about that then. Dude, I said it jokingly, Sayah as the throw-in in this conversation in 832 OPS, dude. And the other thing,

Starting point is 00:16:03 this is a little old man yelling at Cloud, and that's all right, because I'm coming to grips with that. But man, you, and I know Jimmy, Jimmy's gotten pretty frustrated with it, and I think you have too, and I think it means more coming from you. There's a lot of loss,

Starting point is 00:16:20 fundamentals in today's baseball because they went so hard into exit velo and like we'll find a position for you if you can hit and like you guys know the fundamental like put in the work on your own time and like i i hope there's another wave coming that's like hey you're a minor leaguer like let's let's throw to the right cutoff and stuff there's some weird stuff going on in major league baseball this i get it it's old it's soft whatever uh dude the show to covering first show Hey Otani running down the line, one of the fastest players in baseball. He thinks he pieces one down the line, a little 361 double play and Shoda getting to first, beating Shohay there, covering first properly, it was like, again, it's a little obnoxious. But it was like, you get fired up over a

Starting point is 00:17:12 PFP? Yeah, dude. It was pretty baseball. Okay. That's a, that's a real ball in that way. It was pretty baseball. And like, I don't know. Like, I feel. like we don't even expect and maybe this is just us attacking pitchers which includes your son now um of like dude they um i almost don't expect pitcher we don't expect pitchers no we don't expect pitchers no we do not that that's yes right like that's it's pathetic but like they don't they don't know how to bend their knees it's crazy the things that we just assume pitchers can't do and And Shodah. Like they late, we had to change the game because pitchers were so bad at hitting and didn't care about it.

Starting point is 00:17:55 Shoda listed 510. We're going to get our sources on that year. Gosh, you think he rakes. You think he rakes. Shoda. Ooh. Yeah. And Shoda hit?

Starting point is 00:18:05 Absolutely. Gosh, we need to find that out. Absolutely. Um, here's my take on that. And again, it's supposed to be a tight up. I'm not tight it's going to be pops. I'm eating. See you later.

Starting point is 00:18:16 We're yucking ball. during a season, you just don't practice fundamentals. And I don't know why that is. Yeah. Like, there's no, they're not doing PFPs during the season. They're not doing bunt coverages, first and third place relays. Nobody is doing that. I mean, you do it in spring training.

Starting point is 00:18:37 So you do it for, I don't know, four, five weeks in spring training. And then that is it. And you have all the ass, I said this before on the show, You have all the aspirations that you could ever dream of defensively in base running in spring training. You have six bunt plays, three first and third plays. We're going to take the extra base and be, you know, aggressive. And then all that goes out the window during the season. You run one bunt play, get the out, and you throw through or you hold on a first and third play.

Starting point is 00:19:08 That's it. And I don't know why. I mean, these are big leaguers. They should be able to do pretty much anything you ask them to do with the baseball. catching and throwing is part of the game but then it just goes out the window you take DEP yeah everyone's doing defensive work now

Starting point is 00:19:22 but it's not like plays it's like your hands everyone's everyone's doing the Ron Washington drill on the side of the field with their infielders everyone's doing that yeah you're going to take some ground balls throw across the diamond outfielders they don't even shag bro like they'll take a few

Starting point is 00:19:38 a few off the bat and then I'm good I don't want to tire myself out okay I don't know man I shouldn't have said. Don't get me started on bunting, although we're going to talk about bunting later in the show. This is a beautiful series. I'll say. I like the Cubs coming in, handing it to the Dodgers.

Starting point is 00:19:55 We'll talk a little bit more about Michael Bush later. Walker Buehler needs to figure it out. He said so himself. Great to see Yamamoto for the Dodgers. Really needed that outing for him. He ended up going 59 pitches, which was probably longer than I thought he would go in his first start back. So he's got to be that guy for them.

Starting point is 00:20:13 Glass now, I believe, is throwing bullpens on his way back. That's going to be, you know, they need that rotation reinforcement. Because as you're seeing here, Bobby Miller ain't getting the job done. Walker Bueller ain't getting the job done. Not saying they, I mean, yeah, maybe I am saying it's too late to figure it out. It might be for those guys. Right? They're not going to be in the postseason rotation.

Starting point is 00:20:34 There's no way. So, yeah, I mean, you got to give credit to the Cubs. They came, played all around great baseball. Cody Bellinger owns the Dodgers. I think he's won Dotting it against the Dodgers. Since he's been traded. Or did he get traded or go sign a free agent deal? He signed, yeah.

Starting point is 00:20:57 Yeah, free agent deal. Since he left, how about that? Pete Carr Armstrong, holy schnikes, bro. All over the field. Oh, Bieber, say it, Beeps. Imanagan, 327 career-played appearances, a 184 batting average with a 418 OPS, four career doubles, one career triple.

Starting point is 00:21:18 Well, two of those doubles in the triple were a year ago. So he's finding his stroke. Can he bunt? If we could... I'm in pursuit. If we could find the triple footage, that would be pretty special. Yeah, it's where I feel kind of bad for the Cubs, and it's where I was disappointed to see that five games back

Starting point is 00:21:35 because the storylines do end up with L.A. It's Tommy Edmund, back-to-back two Homer games. Max Muncie, destroying baseballs and watching it. Yeah, a lot of the Dodgers lineup questions are getting answers. While it's going to come down to Yamamoto and Glass Now and that. So that's what's going to be fun to watch. And through all of this, I mean, I know we talked about it, but Shohei is now at 47 home runs and 48 stolen bases.

Starting point is 00:22:10 People are really trying to discount the stolen base because of the disengagement rule. and I guess the bigger bases. But like, has it really made it that much more easy to steal bases? Who gets who picks off twice? Nobody picks off twice. And maybe that's what people are talking about. Or it's the pitch clock.

Starting point is 00:22:31 Maybe that's what it is. There's got to be something. And I do agree that it is easier to steal bases now. But is it one clear-cut thing? I don't think it is. I think it's maybe just a mixture of all those things. Bigger bases. So it's a fraction of a set.

Starting point is 00:22:46 second, it's going to be cut off from your time between bases. And then the pitch clock, as it's winding down, you know the guy has to go home or disengage or pickoff. That's a new word in baseball, disengage. Dude, I think, I don't know. I mean, I know you and I are kind of, you know, conspiracy theory, Illuminati

Starting point is 00:23:10 guys. I just think them even bringing those rules to the forefront, Like just reminded everyone, like you can steal bases. Like, yeah. If a double is better than a single, a single and a stolen base is a double. Cannot wait. I cannot wait. There's some billionaire son listening to this show right now who's going to bring us in for their front office.

Starting point is 00:23:35 And we're going to go, some bases are good. Cuban ballplayers. Cubans. Bring them in. but all of them. Oh, God. Yule Griel is playing first base at 42 years old for the Royals. That's what I'm talking about, people.

Starting point is 00:23:55 He's probably 45. Uly, man. Trev, I think the only series that really has stuff to bite into is Phillies and Tampa. And I mean, it's not even really the series. The Phillies sweep them, walk off Cody Clemens in that first game. Schwartz hitting bombs. But, I mean, like I said, we got one of the breakdowns of the year.

Starting point is 00:24:24 I know Jimmy, what is it, 12 and a half minutes. That's he was, when he gets giddy on something, he gets giddy on something. Picasso was in the last. I mean, he jumped into the Wednesday episode, just to say he found a pitcher tipping that led to the Cassiano gets hit. And you get a Cassiano's post game. which is always electric. Rays are dead so we don't need much there.

Starting point is 00:24:47 But I guess for your fight-ins or the whole you set a situation? Yeah, I mean, I don't know, dude. He got banged around and threw a ball at Castellanos. And I don't know if it was 100% intentional or if it's one of those things where, man, I really got to get this ball in there and I don't care if it hits him. I mean, Jimmy's breakdown does show a heat map

Starting point is 00:25:10 of all his fast balls. and there's only one outlier and it's that one the kid's guesting. Weird. Which is crazy to me, dude. Like you're so bad at your, I mean, he's very good.

Starting point is 00:25:20 He's a great year. But on that particular day, you're so bad at your job that you're just like, screw it, I'm gonna nail somebody, see what happens. Like, you know,

Starting point is 00:25:29 that seems crazy to me. I love it. How do you even think that way? I don't know. Pitchers, you know how I feel about them. I think my biggest question here is, look, you know how high I am on the Phillies.

Starting point is 00:25:41 They're one of the most complete teams in baseball. I want to know what they're going to do with their postseason rotation. Clearly it's going to involve Nola, Wheeler, Sanchez, and Ranger Schwarz, yes, but over his last eight starts, and that's kind of cherry-picking, if you will.

Starting point is 00:26:04 He's got a six ERA, man. Yeah. Like it hasn't been the same old Ranger Swarres. It's not like a guy that you can, right now, just plug in and count on. Is that going to change, you know, when the lights come on? Probably. 372 babb against some 855 OPS in those games.

Starting point is 00:26:23 It just hasn't been good, man. And they haven't really been winning his game. So you had a five-in-start against Miami that you give up no runs. Decent start against the Royals, but it hasn't been the same. And I guess we're so used to him being, I mean, lights out. went into that June 30th start when I started the numbers with a 183. And now he's posted that he's 305 on the year. He's got to figure it out.

Starting point is 00:26:51 And so I guess my question is like, you know, where do you slot him in? Well, dude, I think it's a, the good news is it's for some starters, you'd really have to worry about that. In 2022, I think Ranger came out of the bullpen twice. Like, this guy's a dog. Is that going to be the case for him? Is that really going to be it? I think you track these next couple starts. And the other thing that Ranger Suarez has going for him,

Starting point is 00:27:19 dude, in 33.1 postseason innings, postseason, 1.62 ERA. Like, the guy's been just, he hates out. He doesn't give a shit. Dude, even BBD is showing that the opener to the breakdown, they're like seeing Harper screaming and Castellanos with his just like pissed off but demure energy. I tried it.

Starting point is 00:27:40 Like, I just got excited for Philly's postseason baseball, dude. Like, these guys back at it, we didn't even talk Trey Turner who had a game with two two-run homers. I love Trey Turner. You know how much I love Trey Turner. This team is October. And it's going to be funny to see who they come up against. Because they, they're the big bad wolf.

Starting point is 00:28:04 Like, we talk, the Dodgers have clear questions. Like, what is that pitching staff going to look like? The Braves were supposed to be the big bad wolf, but they've had a crazy injury year. Right now, they're out. The Phillies are the team. They're the team. I mean, they have the best record.

Starting point is 00:28:23 No, the Dodgers have the best record in baseball, I believe. No, Phillies are two games up as of today, a game up as of today. 88 and 58. You are right. Dodgers 87 and 59. We'll stimulate some of that later. That's not a good math. That's just one game.

Starting point is 00:28:44 But hey, it's no big deal. It's never been my thing. Just straight up. It's a quick gap. We're going to fire through this thing. Hey, junior Camanero, get him on your radar, everyone, for next year. He has a three-hit day. And Brandon Lau could be an interesting on Waken Jake.

Starting point is 00:29:01 I was going into some of the free agent class, kind of last check-in before we get there. He has a team option. They're going to pick up. It's 10-mill. He has another 10-mill team option the next year. Don't be surprised if he's a trade candidate guy this offseason because he's hitting again. Versatile lefty power.

Starting point is 00:29:19 And the raise will just call up someone for 800K, get two pieces back for Brandon Lowe and reboot up the machine. See you next year, race. Damn, dude. There's 71 and 75? Yeah. It was, I mean, people have been talking about the year that it doesn't happen for the raise for like 10 years.

Starting point is 00:29:40 this just happened to kind of be it, I guess. Trev, the rest of the NL, pirates, fish, no, Reds, Cardinals, kind of no, although don't go look at the Cardinals record. There are two games over five. I know, like I'm, Cardinals, I'm happy for you. It's just not enough right now. It's not enough.

Starting point is 00:30:04 Yeah, I guess if, I'm going to talk a little snakes, but that's a two-game series. Braves Nats was two games. the only other three-gamer is your Brewers, and they take two out of three from the Giants, and that's obvious in a way. I don't know. Yeah, I mean, I mentioned seven games for seven games is the magic number

Starting point is 00:30:24 for them to win the NL Central. The bookend games are kind of like classic Brewers games, holding their opponent to two runs through the two games, you know, scoring enough when they need to. Giants open it up in the second game, Blake Snow, you know, great start. I have a guy who I'm going to talk about later that I'm going to compare to Blake Snow. Wow. Okay. And now I think I just gave it away to you. Shoot.

Starting point is 00:30:49 Yeah, I think, look, we're trying to keep it tight today. Brewers doing their thing. They've been doing it all season long. You know the bullpen is there. You know what they're about. I wanted to touch. Do I have anything on, I mean, Diamondbacks absolutely just take care of business against the Rangers. Rangers are kind of a topic on Monday.

Starting point is 00:31:09 day because we got the Kumar start, which he looked nasty. We got DeGrom and Scherzer. Obviously, it's too late for the Rangers this year. Dimebacks, talk about complete teams. You got to talk Debex. Yeah. I mean, they are, they are those guys. I think the National League has, by far, the most, I feel like it's four teams in the national league before you get to the first team in the American League.

Starting point is 00:31:36 Well, they all just. Power rankings right now? Power rankings right now. Kings. Power is power, bro. Yeah. You put the Yankees above Phillies, Dodgers, snakes, or Padres?

Starting point is 00:31:52 I don't think you do. I mean, the crazy thing is... How about the Brewers? I don't even mention the Brewers. The Dodgers team is the only team that's kind of in consideration just because we talked about their pitching stuff, but like, the snakes know what they do. Zach Gallin, five shut out.

Starting point is 00:32:06 They've got a lineup of mallers right now. The Mets have been playing the best baseball and all of baseball. The Padres love their formula, and why wouldn't they? Ooh, I got something. Okay. National League is like the SEC.

Starting point is 00:32:24 It's just really about them. Everyone else is just like, maybe that one team, maybe that one team from the Big Ten might have a good year. You know, Michigan won at all. They've got some Yeah, the Yankees might be, Yankees might be Michigan. How about that? I don't hate that.

Starting point is 00:32:39 I don't hate that. Cheaters and Michigan. comparison, right? You're great, man. You're so good at this. No, it else is great. Clinton Hall. Everyone asks. They're like, hey, I'm, I get, I get, well, my, I get a lot of DMs.

Starting point is 00:32:55 Some, whoa. But I get a lot of like, hey, Jake, coming to the city, don't know where to go. We're going to a ball game. Go to Clinton Hall. This episode of Talking Baseball is brought to you by Clinton Hall. They've got several locations across New York City. City. 36, 51st,

Starting point is 00:33:13 Fideide, the Bronx, near Fordham. The double smash burger, Trev, yep. I'm starving right now. You probably remember that as the winner from Food Network, NYC Food and Wine Festival's Best Burger.

Starting point is 00:33:28 They've got food, 20 beers on tap. They got games. If you're looking for the bar, happy hour, maybe I've spent some late nights. Turo's with horchata ice cream. Get out of you.

Starting point is 00:33:41 here. Clinton Hall, large groups, events, after work. They know a thing. This is that thing. Yeah. Oh, my. Go book your reservations, Rezi, or just go there. There's a link. Let's do some American link. And we'll start with Michigan, aka the New York Yankees who take down, who would the royals be? Minnesota, like the Golden Gophers or something. I guess Minnesota is Minnesota. Nebraska? They're kind of back this year.

Starting point is 00:34:19 Oklahoma State. Oklahoma State. Go pokes. Yankees take two out of three. They win the first game 10.4. Austin Wells, man, has become the favorite for rookie of the year by the betting people. And they don't mess around with their money. Good dancer, too, people are saying.

Starting point is 00:34:38 They blow that game open late. They get shut down by Seth Lugo, seven shut piece. He's going to throw a postseason start this year. Tommy Fam homers. But then the Yankees in 11 innings, Jazz Chisholm with the walkoff, his first ever, I believe. Yankees take two out of three. X-winning baseball is still a little bizarre.

Starting point is 00:35:04 I don't think we need to talk about that. Michael Massey has a pretty swing. Anyways, the Boston Red Sox take two out of three from the Baltimore Orioles, the Red Sox. Staying alive, man, which, man, they've got to be kind of kicking themselves because they have not been good since the All-Star break. At one point, I think there were 10 games under 500 since the All-Star break. But Tyler O'Neill, baby, how's your three-run walk-off Homer to take the series? They rock the Orioles pitchers in game one, putting up a 12 spot. There's Tyler O'Neill, Devers.

Starting point is 00:35:43 Cedric Mullins moves up the lineup, and it pays off instantly a two-homer game. Adley Rushman down the lineup. Oh, yeah, and Albert Suarez with his season-high strikeouts and swing and miss pitches. So get ready for that, I guess. Red Sox, staying alive. The Oakland A's take two out of three from the Astros, and in the first game, it comes off bunts, back-to-back buntz. And look at that.

Starting point is 00:36:11 Baseball's back. Me, Trev and Rod. Bringing it back as they win that one in 12 innings. Joey Estes with a nice start in that second game with enough offense. Astros come back in the final game. John Singleton with three hits. Their first base situation is getting louder and louder as Yiner gets a start over there. this series.

Starting point is 00:36:35 Hayes, why not? Brent Rooker, Lawrence Butler's still going nuts. J.J. Bladay. Almost gave him my award. Having a great year. You already stopped listening. Padres Mariners, they split two. Eh, yeah.

Starting point is 00:36:50 Mani Machado, most home runs in Padre history. That's nuts. They win that first game. Seattle, Brian, Woo! 6.2 to earn runs. J.P. Crawford. And Cal Rally in that dump truck, but 30 home runs on the year.

Starting point is 00:37:08 The Mets take two out of three from the Blue Jays. They win the first game three to. Tyler McGill's six-up piece. Okay, we can work with that. Big boy, big boy. Chris Bassett comes back next game, shuts them down a little redemption series, hits Pete, they smile, we like baseball. And in that final game, Bowden Francis, no, no, into the knife.

Starting point is 00:37:33 Oh, my. God. Lindor, homers, they blow the roof off of the inning to take the win and take the series and win that six two. Twins take two out of three from the Angels. Trev's going to tell you something about that series. I hope it's about Jack Coaching at which he won't tell me his award today, but he did leave a hint about a Blake's Snell comp. I don't know. Travel mentioned something about that series. I'm over it. Guard dogs, they sweep the white socks. Yeah. Yeah. And that's obvious. Bo Nailer has a big game. Lane Thomas has been balling

Starting point is 00:38:08 and after he came out of the gates. Obviously. Yeah, he came out of the gates slow for them. He's been one dotting, Aba Blately. Abba lately? Those weren't words. Uh, Rockies, Detroit. Tigers win two out of three. Uh, they would have liked to get all three, but the Rockies take that final game.

Starting point is 00:38:25 Uh, your guy Jordan Beck with the Homer. I'll let you break down his swing. And is he lefty or righty? Uh, Cater Montero, nine innings shutout. do like that. And that's what Carrie was a carpenter was Jesus. Let's get the standings. One last thing or another thing for Beaver's. I think we're going to make this an occurrence on the show. Ryan Madsen baseball reference photo, please. This is early 2000's facial. It's just we need to get back to it people. I think of Sugar Ray. You know, Fred Durst.

Starting point is 00:39:00 That's just, remember when? It's so skinny. That's the opposite of the That's the anchor. That looks like a ship anchor. Remember when Ryan Madsen was pitching in like every postseason baseball game? He's really good. 2017, 2018. I need the standings, Trev.

Starting point is 00:39:19 I'm sorry. I got the stand. It's Friday the 13. Let me get a little spooky with the facial hair. My goodness. And because it's Friday, we'll start. Is my goodness kind of a signature line for you? My goodness.

Starting point is 00:39:32 Yeah, it kind of is. It is. Nice, okay. Got to keep a PG on this show. We'll start out West. That's what I want to do. We're going to go bottom to top right here. Houston, a four and a half game lead over Seattle.

Starting point is 00:39:46 It seems like it's been four to five games and really nothing less or more than that in quite some time. They're 78 and 68. Seattle, 74 and 73, still holding on to hope. The Rangers are not holding on to hope. Although, like I said, they got some guys going back. Yeah, sweet. 71 and 76 for them.

Starting point is 00:40:07 64 and 83 for the Oakland A's and 60 and 86 for the Los Angeles Angels. We'll go to the Central now where the Cleveland Guard Dogs. Kenny Lofton does not like that name. They have a four-game lead on the Kansas City Royals. They're 84 and 63, the Royals 80 and 67. My twins, 78 and 68, tight with the Astros. How about that? Detroit, three games over 5, 75 and 72.

Starting point is 00:40:31 They're still very much in the wild card. We'll get to that. And the white socks. I feel like they're so bad. We just don't even... Like, this is a bigger story than we're making it. 33 and 114 is insane. Out East.

Starting point is 00:40:46 University of Michigan. New York Yankees. I don't know. I like it. Who are the Trojans in this whole thing? Figure that out. Maybe the Royals for the Trojans. USC?

Starting point is 00:40:56 Yeah. It's the Dodgers, no? That doesn't make any sense. Yeah. I think that just works. Yeah. not really winning anything, but always just really good. Kind of bad.

Starting point is 00:41:07 That's daughter fans don't like that. 85 and 62 for your Yanks, two games up. That's a big lead for them against the Baltimore Orioles who are 83 and 64. The Red Sox won game over 5, 74 and 73, Tampa 72 and 75, and Toronto, 69 and 78. Now in the wild card, Jake. Right now the Baltimore Orioles of the top spot. Kansas City Royals, a game. and a half up on my twins

Starting point is 00:41:34 have the second spot and the twins who are three and a half games up on the Tigers have the third spot. So Tigers, three and a half games back. They got a puncher's chance. The Mariners, four and a half games back. Boston four and a half games back. It's tight,

Starting point is 00:41:50 but it's getting to that point where even though it sounds like a small lead as we get late into September, Jake. It's going to have to take a lot. lot and the twins are going to have to really, really struggle there. Those are the standings in the AOL. Let's talk some ball. Great stuff. Yeah, your twins, those two back-to-back wins.

Starting point is 00:42:19 Like massive, Kyle Farmer. Yeah. Let's talk a little Michigan and Nebraska, the Royals and the Yankees. That's good. Yeah, because Nebraska's kind of back. Dominic Rayola. He's got the whole copying the Homes thing going on. Oh, he's like the patch of my homes guy.

Starting point is 00:42:34 That's perfect. That's perfect. The Royals are back. Nebraska's back. We're just ball knowers. Yeah, again, if you want an hour and a half on this, go check out talking Yanks as we're starting to eye the postseason. I got stuff on this one.

Starting point is 00:42:49 You just shut up. Let me do it. God, I keep thinking about Ryan Madsen's facial hair. I just, it was so good back of the 2000. We had it so good. We don't even know. Nice. Let's get older.

Starting point is 00:43:01 White 2K. Yeah. Jason Dominguez. Is that he say his name? Jason Dominguez. Jason, yeah? I think it's Jason. I think that's just

Starting point is 00:43:14 Tim joking around. Boone calls him Hassan, but I think that's just locker room talk before that got ruined. Okay. I mean, he's named after Giambi. Oh, Jason Dominguez. That makes it a lot easier on me. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:43:28 Okay, Jason Dominguez, back in the show. Yes. You guys are happy about that. Here's what I thought interesting. You know, you want to be aggressive on the base. Yes, she steals third base, but it was with a left-handed hitter up. Sal Perez behind the plate, three, two, count, two outs. Very weird time to steal third base.

Starting point is 00:43:48 But here you steal it on the pitcher. Maybe he adds some on the pitcher, and Sal throws it away. He scores. I just thought that that was an interesting time to steal third base. I don't know. That's an observation I had. Yeah, I mean, three, two, two outs. Like, if you're going to get a good jump there.

Starting point is 00:44:06 Are you? I don't know. And maybe, like, like it was a breaking ball and maybe they knew, you know, they were going to go. If he maybe saw in his hands, something happened, I'm happy for him. Right. Sal threw it from his knees. I'm just a weird time to steal. Big Sal put on a show this series, man.

Starting point is 00:44:23 I know that's, it's tough. I got some notes on him. Tough that that's the highlight we're showing. But four for four in that first game. two for three in the second. His plate coverage is nuts. Yes. Yes.

Starting point is 00:44:37 Like, Stroman made a really good pitch on him. I think it was a ground ball up the middle, some RBI. Down and away. Perfect spot. But Sal gets the barrel. I don't know. He just got great plate coverage.

Starting point is 00:44:50 Austin Wells, nice Homer first game. Down and then, big boy Homer. Big boy reaction. Got to love that. And then the Royals, game two, they win Lugo 17 straight, retired? Yeah. It's hot.

Starting point is 00:45:04 Yeah. There's the pitch down in the way from Stromen. Yeah, that's my note on this one. Just crazy plate coverage by Sal. Throughout the entire series, he can pump you to left to right, whatever he needs to do. He's just been that guy.

Starting point is 00:45:19 He got to 100, or 100 of it in. Only the second time in his career. Pretty cool. So good for him. Third game, Jazz had a great backhand of play. You guys been talking about his defense. defense. So I kind of like was looking through some of the plays. Great.

Starting point is 00:45:33 Down the line. Yeah. Tough hop. Gloves it. Gets up. Doesn't even bounce past it. No. All the way. His arms. Absolute hose. Does he have a hose? His arms incredible. Arms incredible and his range. Dude, he makes the highlight plays, like the 10 out of tens.

Starting point is 00:45:51 He can go out with anyone right now. It's just the routine stuff because, dude, he hasn't played over there. Here's the thing. Here's what I get here. Check this out. Beaver's is just on top of it with the highlights. That's not a hard or not an easy play. The throw is,

Starting point is 00:46:07 the throw is. That's such a good feeling on that throw because you're getting up and you know you got to get on top of it. So like you really are like using your whole body to pull down and then you just hammer that thing. Oh. I wanted to spit right there. I know when you said that thing.

Starting point is 00:46:25 Uh-huh. Um, so here's my thing with jazz. Yeah. Like, I kind of, like, wasn't feeling him early on in the season. Right. It was saying things. I didn't like him.

Starting point is 00:46:38 Talk trash about Miggi Rojas. Yeah, like, I just, I don't, I didn't like that whole thing. And, you know, and now maybe it's just that he was on the Marlins, and that just was a bad vibe there all around. Sure seems that way. Now he's got in a clubhouse where, like, he can't really do stuff like that because he's got Aaron Judge, who's a freaking, massive human being, like he's, you answer to him.

Starting point is 00:47:05 Some guys need that, right? And you know I love a good third baseman. So he's kind of pull me back in. He's, he's been electric. The base running's incredible, the arm strength, the high, the high level stuff. It's just, yeah, some of the routine stuff. Like he doesn't know the footwork super well.

Starting point is 00:47:24 He hasn't played a lot of third base. Like, it makes sense. He was an infielder, though. Right, right. No, I mean, it's definitely not foreign. There's some adjustments there. Last notes I have on this is we got to hurry up, Jake. Soto, the homer after the foul off his foot, took a little bit too long, but still at the homer.

Starting point is 00:47:40 Usually you say, get your butt back in the box or else you're going to be out. That's the old wives tale. He crushed that one. And then Sal had a great play at first base. Yeah. Try to tag and then he threw, who was it? Was it Labor out at home? Or Budap.

Starting point is 00:47:56 Volpe. Or Volpe. One of those guys. Yeah, he got. Trevino goes out of the baseline. They get a double play on that. A big fan of Sal. So there's a big Sal series, even though they lost two out of three.

Starting point is 00:48:07 He performed admirably. Royals, that playoff bullpen's going to be interesting. Because Erseg looks great. It is great. After him, you know, I won't name names, but that was the Yankees' feeding time.

Starting point is 00:48:26 And it's going to be interesting. Like, if they're in a wild card, you've got Lugo Reagan's Wakan singer Is Lugo, do you maybe have Lugo come out of the bullpen Because he's done that before? I don't know, interesting. No. Hit up your guy, Matt Quitraro.

Starting point is 00:48:44 You can piggyback. Yeah, I mean, they're going to figure things out. You don't put Lugo in the bullpen. That's just, he just threw seven scoreless. I guess Michael Waka's got some bullpen stuff too. Anybody can do it in the postseason. But they're pitchers. You know, we're getting to that time postseason

Starting point is 00:49:03 where all the pitchers have their cleats on. Yeah, you like that. Freaking love that. No what else you're going to like? Oh my God, I have to wear a cleats during a baseball game? What? No what else you're going to like? I think about how ridiculous that is.

Starting point is 00:49:14 Sorry. I'm just going to name on fan graphs. One, two, three, four, five, six. There's six guys listed on the Royals bench right now. Four of them are Yule Gariel. Adam Frazier. Of course. Robbie Grossman.

Starting point is 00:49:35 Yep. And then I threw Garrett Hampson in there, too. Just, you know. Okay. Garrett Hampson just fighting the good fight. He ended up at first base in one game. Royals, interesting. Royals fans, sound off.

Starting point is 00:49:48 Let us know what you want. Your three-game wild card plan to be. Coleriggins. Yanky's-106 losses last year. Yeah. You want to talk about your socks. They took two out of three. They're alive-ish.

Starting point is 00:50:04 You know, I can't talk about last night's Yankees win against them. But they held serve against the Orioles. Yeah, they helped you guys out. Rob Reff Snyder's my guy. Him and O'Neill. We'll talk about O'Neill a little bit later, but they both went back-to-back twice in this game, both times against a lefty.

Starting point is 00:50:26 I believe it was Cade Povich, which I'm not, I don't mean this in a bad way, people. But he's like, discount store Max Fried. He's young. He's young. He'll get there.

Starting point is 00:50:39 I'm not hating on him. He just kind of looks like Max Fried and Max Fried's about to get the freaking bag. God, I can't wait for him to take me out to dinner. But Ref Snyder, I know he's been good against Lefties. I didn't know he was this good against Lefties. 948 OPS this year.

Starting point is 00:50:54 Yeah. Like, hey, buddy, you're going to play in the Big Leagues for a long time. if you do that. I wish I would have done that. I was a hitter against lefties. Maybe not that good. Dang.

Starting point is 00:51:07 Santanderine that first game gets 40, the most quiet 40 homer season you're ever going to hear of. Game two, Mollins, it's all about him. You mentioned he moved to the two-hole. They moved Adley down to the five-hole, which I think is a good move.

Starting point is 00:51:20 You know, Adley had been struggling. And it just changes up, gives him a little breathing time. You know what I mean? If you're catching, or like just even during the first inning, even if you're not catching, just deaching or something.

Starting point is 00:51:34 Like, hey, like, let me like settle into the game a little bit. Let me, my heart rate slowed down. Let me see some pitches, you know, maybe come up with more runners on base, whatever it may be. There is a different feeling between hitting first or second and then anywhere down below in the lineup. I mean, those first two slots in the order,

Starting point is 00:51:50 you're exposed right away. Either you're on deck or you're at the plate, and it's just, it's, you've got to go. And if you need, if you're struggling a little bit, I think it's always a good idea to get them out of those top two slots down the lineup a little bit. Just breathe a little bit.

Starting point is 00:52:05 Slow it down a little bit. Then game three have the O'Neill walkoff, which is an absolute bomb. And our guy, full pension Piff, he is going to be rich too. Even though he's like overall kind of like mid. He has these incredible starts where like teams that can just dream upon Nick Povetta.

Starting point is 00:52:27 And he's a reliable pitcher. I don't know. That's what I got in this series. Go Red Sox, go. Man, yeah, the Adleys, some of the Adley numbers are pretty, pretty mind-blowing. 205, 283, 577 OPS in the second half. All year, kind of, verse righties. Hasn't been the guy you think. That'll be an interesting storyline come there postseason.

Starting point is 00:52:49 And I can't wait to see Albert Suarez's postseason start. Yeah, Trev. I don't mean to, I'm not trying to crush this guy. I think he's going to a great ball player, but, like, we have not. No one's talking about Jackson Holiday and the struggle bus. Yeah. Like is he going to overall numbers, Jake? Yeah.

Starting point is 00:53:13 530 OPS, 54 OPS plus? Like has it been like a lot better lately that I just don't know about it? I know he started a lot of really poor, but I got the splits up right now. Yeah, I mean. Last 28 days, 486 OPS, less 14 days, 477 OPS. Less seven days, 276 OPS. It's bad. That's bad.

Starting point is 00:53:33 Bad, bad. Bad were like, I'm asking Orioles fans, does he play in the postseason? Right. You got like a week to find out. That's crazy. I'm rooting for this guy. I'm just pointing out something that I really, I mean, I haven't been super zoomed in on the Orioles and, you know, what exactly they've been doing at the plate, specifically Jackson Holiday, but I just went into the numbers and okay. That's, that's something they have to consider. Yeah, that's the, man, are they

Starting point is 00:54:08 banged up? What's going on? I mean, obviously some of their pitchers. I mean, West, right now they're missing Mountcastle, Westberg, Kerstad, Mateo. Yeah. Yeah, Orioles fans, let us know what you want. Looking at his game logs, it seems like

Starting point is 00:54:28 just very streaky for Holiday, but how good are the good, how bad's a bad? Orioles fans let us know. Couple weeks to figure it all out. Treve, in Houston and the A's, I hit it on the way through, but the three straight bunts in the 12th, you don't see that a lot.

Starting point is 00:54:50 And pretty funny. There's only one good bunt, too. Right. Right. Dazzled a good one down, down the third baseline, and then the other ones were just kind of like, what does you do on baby Astros?

Starting point is 00:55:01 Yeah, the Narris. throw is pitchers fielding compilation. There's one guy where I'm positive. He does not know where the ball is going on a PFP. It's Hectorneras. I'm positive of that. Doesn't feel like his strength. And a lot of baseball.

Starting point is 00:55:19 You just know the guys when they pick a ball. You're like, oh, boy. That's what they say, always be ready for a bad throw. I think the A's and the Astros have the same record in the second half. Yeah. Yum. That's good. I mean, look, I'm happy.

Starting point is 00:55:36 Ace fans. You got some real players there. Brent Rooker is doing some historic things. Like, he could be the first A player to hit 300, 30, and 100 since Mark McGuire or something like that.

Starting point is 00:55:50 Like, he's, let's go. God, I love that for Brent. And then, yeah, they have some young guys turning it on. He talked to a Butler all the time. He's turned into a menace out there. And things are looking up, but I feel like that's what we always say about the A's. Hey man, you got these really good young players. Like it's going to go and then

Starting point is 00:56:06 Jay, J.J. I shouted him out on the way through. He's having a great year for a center fielder. Yeah, some of his stats are silly. Only second center fielder in A's history to hit 20 homers and 40 doubles. That's a lot of extra base going on there. How about Oakland's starting pitching? Mitch Spence Three straight quality starts JPC or six innings, no earned runs. Joey Estes, who I just learned as my buddy's cousin from Lancaster.

Starting point is 00:56:41 Pericles, high. He used to play them all the time. Six and two-thirds, two-run runs. That's a quality start. And then you have Mitch Spence. Seven two-earned runs. Okay. Framber's scoreless streak ends after 20 innings.

Starting point is 00:56:53 Casual. It's another, just a good couple starts for him. B is we're going to move on But we have any updates on El Tuve? Five hour an El Tuvei? Or his injury? He had a little oblique thing. Yeah, it doesn't look good.

Starting point is 00:57:11 Being honest. He said he's not worried, but that's not an update. Yeah. He's not worried, Trev. The last... Didn't play last night. The last big one for me in the AL is Mets J's.

Starting point is 00:57:26 and about in France is no-hitter stuff. I mean, pretty incredible how baseball can do that. A guy getting his shot because the Jay's season kind of went down the tube. So that's been cool to see. He started the year in the rotation. Then he had a bad couple stars that kicked him down. He actually went down to AAA. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:57:49 So yeah, he... We love that too. I do love that. Go work on yourself, King. yeah so he made a ton of adjustments i have him here um they said the number one thing he's doing better is just throwing more strikes with his fastball okay awesome uh but then his pitch mix has completely changed early on it was it was fastball curbstall um almost 80% of the time uh then he's like that was getting absolutely rocked so instead now that curveball is turned into like slider slash splitter

Starting point is 00:58:23 Splitter's been like a really, really good pitch for him. So he's throwing those to make up for the lack of curbaal usage. Curball's like out the window. We're not doing that anymore. So it's like four seam or slide or splitter. And if you're locating, you can command those three pitches. There you go. I know he's had two no-noes getting broken up, Taylor Ward,

Starting point is 00:58:41 and then Lindor in this one. They actually open up the floodgates after that. But he's, yeah, he's establishing himself. It's cool to see, man. We did this on baseball today. in his post-game interview didn't know he was just kind of, he's like a freak, he's a freaky dude,

Starting point is 00:58:58 you could just tell. He had like a headphone over his ear, this ear, like kind of like hipster, yeah. Yeah. Didn't know that, yeah. What was that? Not really sure. That looked like,

Starting point is 00:59:09 I like it. That looked like when you see like a UN meeting and they've got like one of those like worldly translator things like a lot of. I had to ask, I guess he was hearing impaired? I wasn't sure. Didn't know,

Starting point is 00:59:21 but don't want to make the assumption. No, he's just a hipster. Wired headphones for the win. Kids are cool. So are the Mets, man. Yeah. Fifth straight series wins. If you've watched a lot of baseball

Starting point is 00:59:35 and you see a team with the good juice. Yeah, they got it. And a team without the juice right now in the Blue Jays, a one-run ninth inning game, you kind of, I don't want to say you knew what was coming. Because that sounds obnoxious and rude to the Jays, and bout in France's. you kind of thought something was coming.

Starting point is 00:59:56 And Frankie Lindor, that second MVP in a couple of your first place votes. I mean, don't say that. Now all the Mets fans are in your mentions. Otani does even play defense, which like I love that argument, actually. Hey, man, there was a note on this document saying,

Starting point is 01:00:16 should the Bobby Witt Aaron Judge case be reopened because Judge hasn't been Homer in lately. So I don't know It's all on the table for me If you want to talk more about Metzegu Juju They take the lead on two pass balls Yeah

Starting point is 01:00:31 Then you have to swing the bat And that's this guy So serving backup catcher for Alejandro Kirk Your doppelganger He comes in I don't if he pinched ran or something Comes in the game

Starting point is 01:00:43 He's the one out one leg out guy Mm Mm First wild pitch was just an absolute Just spiked curve ball So like tough you know, not really going to get to that one. The second one, I think it was another curaball

Starting point is 01:00:55 or maybe it was a splitter or something. He just whiffed it. Just whiffed it. It wasn't a great outing for him. And then Lendor in that same inning steals like no throw. That was on the pitcher. So like, I know it looks really bad for serving, but only one of those was his fault.

Starting point is 01:01:11 Okay. Just throwing that out there right there. Go Mets go. Let's see how their stimulator goes. You're welcome, Servant. and just got you off the hook. Do you want to talk about Angels' twins or... No, I don't.

Starting point is 01:01:27 They needed it. There's friction in the clubhouse between like some of the players and possibly the management. I don't know, man. It's not good. Kyle Farmer stepped up to save the day. That's all I'm saying.

Starting point is 01:01:40 And he texted me last night a video of him playing wiffle ball and he said, give me a couple years and I'll be with you. I said, we're going to be the Bash Brothers to Blitzball baby. Whoa.

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Starting point is 01:02:53 first base man, Michael Bush. Jake loves a Bush. Four for five. A double. A Homer. Three runs driven in. Three runs scored. They're making a comeback.

Starting point is 01:03:08 Here's what I really like. I'm happy. Michael Bush has had a really good year. Overall, the numbers are there this year. Two-nine war. Good for you. 766 OPS, 115 OPS plus. Maybe he'll get to 20 homers this year, 17 of them right now. But like I mentioned with Cody Bellinger,

Starting point is 01:03:27 there's something about doing it against your old team. That just feels good, Jake. Against the Dodgers, six games, 333, 385, 750 for the 1.1. That feels so good, dude. You got to love it. as I was mentioning, nice speech right there, Trev. The trade has actually worked out for both sides. Michael Bush has been good for the Cubs,

Starting point is 01:03:55 and they sent over a couple minor leaguers for them. And our guy, Zahir Hope, an outfielder, a young guy. He's hit, it's like a 900 OPS in the minors this year, and then also Jackson Ferris, a pitcher. It's had a really good year. So I don't know. I like good trades that work out for both sides. Obviously, not sure how that's going to work out for the Dodgers.

Starting point is 01:04:15 but Michael Bush is a big leaguer and he's doing against Swarmer team and I love that so he got my stand-up performance Trev I was going to say a lazy joke at the start Michael Bush, an Instagram handle though is Lil Bush so I mean why not

Starting point is 01:04:32 I have it in front of me you want to guess I have it up to now okay oh whoa yeah do you live in Minnesota or was he just born there

Starting point is 01:04:45 because technically Teddy was born in Minnesota. Right. And also, oh, that's Inver Grove. Teddy's Maple Grove. Okay, I'm over it. Yeah, I'm very intrigued to see the second half of that trade to come through because it doesn't seem like the Dodgers would just give, give up a, you know, young prospect first baseman

Starting point is 01:05:05 who's put together a one more, or like a three-war season in his rookie year. Well, they just had no room for it. He was blocked. I know. I know, but I don't know. I just, it, it smelt fishy at the time that I, maybe your guys I hear hope is, is going to be next. But I don't, I don't know.

Starting point is 01:05:26 I don't know. You went to high school in Minnesota? Okay. Probably idolizing. Twins territory, stand up. Yeah. Why do we draft this guy? What is doing, baby?

Starting point is 01:05:36 Probably loves you. You know who I love? You might. Gino. Eugenio Suarez. Flash, Back. The snakes are starting to get a couple bodies healthy at the start of summer.

Starting point is 01:05:53 They've been hanging out a little under 500. Suarez was struggling. And sorry to bring everyone else into this, but Seattle was killing it. Seattle had a 10-game lead. They got rid of these strikeout guys, Teoscar Hernandez, Ehuyaheuhenio Suarez. Suarez, Perdomo's coming back. Like, what do we do? This guy's on the struggle bus.

Starting point is 01:06:20 Do we need to move on? Like, what's up? He kicked into gear. And since the second half, like, that, Otani's pretty good, right, Trev? He's pretty good. Aaron Judge.

Starting point is 01:06:36 Pretty good. It's pretty good. I might be talking about the AL and NLMVPs. A lot of rollovers for Judge lady. I'm not saying it. the most home run since the all-star game a Eugenio Suarez with 18 tied with otani asterisk man this guy has been so so good at third base he's now has 28 home runs on the season he has an 808 OPS a 122 OPS plus

Starting point is 01:07:13 And man, it was the other thing that, you know, Mariners fans got mad at us and now, hey, where the bullies pointing back at them. Dude, Gino plays every day, dude. He played 162 last year. He's at 142 games this year. And I think he's going to get 30 and 100 from the third base spot. That what did they get? Sebi Savala and Carlos Vargas.

Starting point is 01:07:40 It was almost like a salary dump for Seattle. And the dimebacks have one of the best hitters in the second half. He's been nasty. Strikeout rate is the lowest it's been since 2018. So that's nice. New hitting philosophy. I don't know. A different change of scenery is great.

Starting point is 01:08:06 I like that you said he posts every day. That's a big thing. Evan Longoria talked about Mani Machado posting. Of course he's commenting on Instagram. That's just what he does. But that's very important I actually did not know that Gino had these numbers.

Starting point is 01:08:19 Yeah, man. He was, and he was down bad to start the season. Like he, um, he's, you know, to one dot for a month is really hard. And he's got July. He was a 1.1 in September right now, 10 games, but he's 1.6.9ing.

Starting point is 01:08:40 Hello, Bebes. Um, he's hitting 500 in September. 38 at bats. Yeah, he's most likely going to get to 30 and 100. I mean, he's got to go a little bit, but that'll be the third time in his career that he gets to 30 and 100, and that is... Dude, I think we did this a few Epps back,

Starting point is 01:08:56 and like he's going to end up with like 300 career taters. That's more than that. He's 274 already, bro. He might get the 400 homers. He's a little older than you. Oh, no, he's 32. 33. 33 in July. Okay, whatever.

Starting point is 01:09:11 But still, that's a crazy career. Let's just say he plays five more years. And, I mean, he averages 31 for 162. Let's just knock that thing down to 25. That's 125 more homers. That's going to get him to 399. Nice math. You've got him short.

Starting point is 01:09:33 Yeah, he's not going to get there. Gino does not get there. Give me some old thick D.H years. Let's get him to four. Give him to 500? Does he make the Hall of Fame? That's Coachino. Trev, we could have talked about your guy, Rob Reffmore.

Starting point is 01:09:48 We could have talked about Michael Harris' deuses to Homer game. Cater Montero. Caterman. Telling people about this guy. With the complete game. Can I say something about him? Yeah. I guess we, yeah.

Starting point is 01:10:01 Cater. All you got to do. He throws too many pitches that are just non-competitive. I always say you got to be productive at the big league level. as a starter over and over. You got to tunnel your pitches or you got to throw pitches that are out of the strike zone

Starting point is 01:10:17 that end up in the strike zone or start in the strike zone and then end up out of the strike zone. You get a trick hitters. He throws just pitches out of his hand or balls. Yeah. And then when he's in the strike zone, it's just like starts and stays in the strike zone.

Starting point is 01:10:28 Like if he can just command a little bit better, he's got the stuff. Okay. That's all I'm saying. Okay. He's got a weird leg kick too. I don't know. Maybe flesh out some mechanical stuff.

Starting point is 01:10:39 I'm with you, dude. I'm a catered guy. I've always been. You've always been. And you've always been a Corona extra man. Let's get to the best segment of the show. Dirk nasty's on Fuego. That means I'm on fire, baby, like Waco.

Starting point is 01:10:56 Jake, we're going to start off in Los Angeles. For this series, we talked about this guy, Tommy Edmund. Tommy two times, six for 13. Four homers, six runs driven in. Four runs scored a stolen base. He recorded multi-homer games in the final two games of the series. He's recorded this fifth multi-homer game of his career, and he had never recorded multiple multiple home run games

Starting point is 01:11:18 in the same season, let alone in consecutive games. Nice, dalt. His four homers are the first four homers he's hit during the season, only had three extra base hits in 75 plate appearances before recording these homer games. So now, basically, what we're saying is he's catching fire at the right time. You're getting that extra in, baby. Lane Thomas has always been that guy.

Starting point is 01:11:39 We've been trying to tell you, six for 13, two double the homer, eight runs driven in against the White Sox. He's batting 390 with five doubles, three homers and 14 runs driven in in the month of September. Prior to that stretch, not so good, but he is turning it on as well. How about Cody Bellinger mentioned how good he's been against the Dodgers in the series, two homers, six runs driven in. He has 81st and 82nd career homers in Dodgers Stadium, third most among active players. So he's still, he's like, dude, I'm just going to keep adding on to this.

Starting point is 01:12:10 Just because I'm gone doesn't mean I can't be the home run leader at Dodger Stadium. Love that stat. For the week, how about Nate Lowe? Early Settler? He was there. Nathaniel. Oh, yeah, they didn't say Nate back then. That's disgusting.

Starting point is 01:12:26 Why would I say that? Be proper. Nathaniel Lowe. Six for 16, two homers, five runs driven, and seven walks. You gotta love that. Riley Green's been doing it. He's a stud. 11 for 25, a double, a homer, a truck.

Starting point is 01:12:40 triple eight runs driven in, six runs scored, stud. Two weeks, it's the list you want to be on. Victor Robles. Yeah. Really good for Seattle. Pretty cool. Really, really good. You got the extension, right? And he's doing his thing up there.

Starting point is 01:12:55 16 for 35, four, double six runs driven in 10 runs scored, six stolen bases. Over the last 30 days, Robles is a 375 average, which leads Major League Baseball. In our organization that we'll run, we are still going to like batting average. Yes. Like not that much,

Starting point is 01:13:14 but we're still going to like it. We like it. Yeah. Like who was that team that said, I don't care how fast you throw a ball for? The Nationals. Yeah. We're going to say,

Starting point is 01:13:23 we still kind of care about your average. Know what I would? I'm a big, what does the opponent not want? If I'm a team, if I was playing against a team that had a lot of high batting average, I wouldn't like that.

Starting point is 01:13:37 Me neither. Dude, one day. One day. Say some guy with a bunch of Bitcoin right now. Just buy the team, hire us. It's not a big deal. We're crypto guys. I won silver stock.

Starting point is 01:13:50 Go on. Seth Lugo. 21 innings pitched in his three games started. Only 15 hits, two earned runs, 23Ks to two walks. Yummy Daddy likes. He's tied the Major League with his 16th win.

Starting point is 01:14:06 He had won 15 games over his last three seasons combined. On Tuesday, he threw seven scoreless 10Ks in the same game for the first time in his career. He recorded 10 plus Ks for the fourth time in his career. And all of those have been in 2024. The Royals opposite of what is you doing, baby? You did. You nailed it. You nailed it. Then Edwin Diaz has been great for the Mets in the seven games in these last

Starting point is 01:14:31 two weeks. Three saves, six and a third innings pitched, no earned runs, only one walk to 12 case that's is hot. But now, for the guy that just did a little bit extra, our Corona Extra, player of the app, oh my gosh, never seen you two in the same room.

Starting point is 01:14:50 Boston, outfieler, Tyler O'Neill. Eight for 26. That's a 308 average, but Jake, what do he do with those eight knocks? I don't know, two doubles and five homers. Nine runs driven in. Seven runs scored on Monday.

Starting point is 01:15:05 He recorded the seventh multi-hom. game of the season that's tied with Yordaun. Don't even need to say his last name for the most in 2024. And a little cherry on top here. He tied Jim Rice and Manny Ramirez for the most multi-homer games in a season in Red Sox history. The stats are astounding on the season for Tyler O'Neill. 30 homers, only 59 runs driven.

Starting point is 01:15:37 in, which is nuts. Who cares about that? He's got an 897 OPS on the year, 144 OPS plus. And you know he's sick with the fits, Jake. That's our Corona Extra player at the app. Cheers to everyone and Tyler O'Neill especially. Corona Extra who loves the game beyond the scoreboard. Corona, the fans who never lose. Wow. Get yours at order Corona.com.

Starting point is 01:16:04 21 plus relax responsibly. Corona extra. imported by Crown in Portugal, Illinois. There's a link to find Corona if you can't find it. Also, just DMBD. Yeah? DMBD, and also... DMBD, why he only has 59 runs vivid in

Starting point is 01:16:21 with 30 homers. Yeah. That's nuts. That's nuts. It's hard to do. That must mean that he's got 20-something solo shots. Nobody on base. We'll get R&D on that.

Starting point is 01:16:36 Trev, great job. The best segment of the show followed by the worst. Luckily, it's a short one. Man, we never laugh at an injury. Anthony Rendon, back to the aisle. That's mind-boggling. Ben Joyce, don't like that. Hitting 105.

Starting point is 01:17:02 DJ LaMayhew for the Yanks, probably out for the 6th. season. Might be funny business, might not be. Rinaldo Lopez and the Braves injury luck. Initial test came back clear, but we'll see on that. Luis Castillo for the Mariners. Didn't know about that one. Sad. Kind of sad. I think he'll be back. Returning from the aisle is what we like. John Birdie, some Yankees death. Sure. Brewster Gratterol. Hello, friend. Yoshinobu Yamamoto. We talked about that. Lance Lynn. with five good innings.

Starting point is 01:17:37 And Manny Margoe for the twins? Coach Ballgame's favorite player is back. That's big. That's big. It was a Tide IL, which means we get to start off everyone's weekend. Awards. They're brought to you by Draft King's Treve. I'm excited to hear you.

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Starting point is 01:19:16 We'll see her next week. Very excited about that. My award is called Play It Cool Award. Now, use that phrase in instances where you don't want people to know what you're thinking. You don't want them to know that you're excited about something. Yeah, play it cool. Play it cool, Daddy-O.

Starting point is 01:19:41 I feel like you live there, bro. You're always excited, but you always got to tone it down a little bit. Don it down, Daddy-o. Play it cool. Say Coleriggins. Call-Rigons. Nice start. Looks good.

Starting point is 01:19:57 I got a pitcher in mind that I think that every opposing team should play it cool with, but go absolutely get this guy. I'm serious. Let's try it. and why don't you throw in this guy? Yeah, you know, yeah. You can get him, right? I don't know.

Starting point is 01:20:16 Like, yeah, we'll take him, fine. Whatever it is. You can, like, fantasy football. A lot of people play that. Sure. A lot of people that listen to this show play fantasy football. The guy that you actually want, you never really mention. I was like, yeah, you know, I don't really need this guy, but I guess I'll give you my guy,

Starting point is 01:20:31 you give me this, whatever it is. You got to play it cool in these acquisitions. Okay. I'm actually a bad negotiator. Like, Olivia, like she negotiates. everything for me. Like better pricing. Like I just like yeah I'll pay whatever whatever and she's just like not about that life. So she's like she's been negotiating our relationship. I'm not. The guy that I want every team to go after. A guy that's just had such an up and down career. And I know the

Starting point is 01:20:58 Angels fans are not going to like this because they don't like anything that I say about their team. But he hasn't had like real success there. It's Redetmer's. Okay. If you ever watch this guy pitch, he has no-hit stuff because guess what? He threw a freaking no-hitter as a rookie. So, like, he's got that feather in his cap, right? But the most confusing thing is, why can't this guy be a front-of-the-rotation starter? Because he obviously has that type of stuff. But it fluctuates from year to year.

Starting point is 01:21:35 Now, yes, he walks too many people. he's erratic with his location but I think like this is stuff that you can figure out with the guy he's only he just turned 25 years old there's plenty of miles left on this guy he's a left-handed pitcher

Starting point is 01:21:51 that like again watch him pitch and it'll shock you at the swings that he will elicit against him but it just it doesn't work out whether it's the third time through the order whatever it may be like it just his overall numbers

Starting point is 01:22:07 Jake, 463. Yeah. In his time with the Angels, he's got a 5, 6, 4 this year. He was down in the minor leagues this year. You know, he's come back. He's made two really good starts.

Starting point is 01:22:22 Who were they against? I just had it up. Let me get that up. Okay. Oh, it was against the Dodgers and then against my twins. So against the Dodgers, you go six teams pitch, 10Ks, two earned runs.

Starting point is 01:22:35 Against the twins, six teams pitch, 20 runs, 8Ks. Like he's got this stuff and he's seeming the like starting to find it I guess but if you're some team in the off season of the Brewers like this is the guy the thing that's really surprised me and I've watched this guy pitch a lot done the games against when he's pitched against the twins and every time I see him I think the same same thing like what's going on here each pitch if you go by run value over the last like couple years has just completely flip-flop like it'll be good one year and then bad the

Starting point is 01:23:05 next and I don't understand how that that is like you know need some consistency in his life. In 2022, four seen fastballed a five run value. Positive. Things were looking good. Last year, in 2023, I had negative 10. This year a negative 5. His curveball this year is at negative 11.

Starting point is 01:23:23 Last year is at positive 4. Like, something is going on with his preparation, with his mechanics, mentally. Something is going on where, like, he just can't find the consistency. see, but this guy is like the ultimate diamond in the rough in the big weeks. He's still, like I said, 25 years old. He's still not even ARB eligible yet. Making a league minimum this year. Like, this is the guy that you go after.

Starting point is 01:23:50 If you're looking for starting pitching, you might have to give up. Overpay for him is what I'll say. Right. I don't think the angels are shopping him. Force their hand. Force the hand. Go overpay for this guy. Put them in your system.

Starting point is 01:24:02 If you got a, if you got a system, a development system, and that you think you could fix pitchers with, this is the guy. I don't know what's going on. I want him to stay with the Angels. I want him to have success. But if they can't figure this guy out, then I think a lot of other teams can.

Starting point is 01:24:21 Play cool. Go get Redembers to the offsees. Tough segment for Halo's fans, but they'll probably agree that, yeah, if the offseason comes and we hear Redetmers to the Brewers, redetmers to Tampa. read Detmer's.

Starting point is 01:24:38 I mean, the one that was making me laugh in my head is like, read Detmer's to Seattle. Like going, why don't Seattle, why don't Seattle start doing that? Go, go trade one of your guys for three hitters and make Reed Detmer's good. That, yeah, man, it's, uh, and dude, I know this guy's kind of not a part of the, dude, him and Patrick Sandoval, both had really strong 22s. Um, and both have, have not.

Starting point is 01:25:06 Since then. Tough for Halo fans. You think you got two young lefties to pan in your rotation for the next four or five years. You do. You have them. Right. You have them.

Starting point is 01:25:19 You do have them. I don't know. Maybe, maybe, okay, on the flip side, play it cool angels and go get a new pitching coach or find somebody that can unlock the clear potential that is here in Reed Denver's. And maybe they have. Two starts in.

Starting point is 01:25:36 Right. Maybe we're back. Good. Maybe we're back. I'm just saying, man, every time I see this guy pitch, and you know I'm pretty good with this. Like, I'll... Yeah.

Starting point is 01:25:44 Louis Ortiz, Cater Montero. You can see him. Like, Reed Detmer says, like, I don't think this is like a far-fetched thing. No, no. Because, I mean, he's had the stuff in games. I mean, you know, no hitter, like you mentioned. And yeah, some of the swinging misses,

Starting point is 01:26:00 you're absolutely right. Like, you're... For Blake's Snellish. Yes, it's very much... If you're what... watching the game, you're like, wait, why is, why is that guy swinging at that? But it's what you talked about with your boy Kider. Him and Snell have the stuff that looks like a strike for every hitter in MLB baseball.

Starting point is 01:26:22 And then it's in the dirt. Makes them tough. Let's see. Tap into him, Angels. Trev, great stuff. I'm also on the West Coast today. I didn't, I didn't know this. that both of us are.

Starting point is 01:26:41 I'm giving out that I can buy myself Flowers Award. A, I know you like that song. I love that song. That gets you vibe in a little bit. Miley's my number one. Miley, uh, electric. Her energy is tough to match. Jazz Chisholm.

Starting point is 01:26:57 Trev, we, you know, we give out. That'd be an electric couple. He's too young. I don't know. Uh, we do the all J.M. team, the most prestigious awarding in baseball pretty much. And man, oh man. Salvador Perez behind the dish this year.

Starting point is 01:27:17 Big Sal, we talked about this episode. Four for four in one game. He's electric. Treve, he's been playing a lot of first base, a lot of DH, Freddie Furmeen, been hopping behind the dish. The good people of Seattle, come back to me.

Starting point is 01:27:33 Cal Rally, big dumper. 30th Homer on the year. He's been hot recently. The 12th catcher ever to have two 30 homer seasons? What? One of eight players in franchise history with multiple 30 homer seasons. Griffey Arod, Nelson Cruz, Jay Buehner, Brett Boone, Richie Sexton, Kyle Seeger, and Cal Rally. Big Dumber.

Starting point is 01:28:06 Behind the dish. Switch hitting. now he is weak against lefties, and that's okay. We know that, but that means he's stronger versus righties. A 775 OPS versus righties this year, which again, I know that doesn't jump off the page, but for catchers, that's pretty good. 4.2B war. Cal Raleigh might be buying himself some flowers or maybe a pedal

Starting point is 01:28:28 because I think he's coming for that best a L. catcher spot, a little bit of circumstance around it, but he's, He's an awesome watch. I love Big Dumpur. A couple of his offensive numbers earlier in the year were kind of like, but with him picking it up recently, I think he might get my vote coming up. We'll see.

Starting point is 01:28:51 Yeah, no, he swings big, hits big. I think that's the knock against him as he chases, he whiffs, but he also barrels 96 percentile and barrel percentage. Also a great framer. He's been throwing guys out, which is good. So he gets a little prowess for the defense. there as well. We love them. We love them. I hope he does

Starting point is 01:29:12 come to sneak this September 1 because really, if we're being honest, the only All-JM award that truly matters is September. Right. It's all that really matters. I'll get it in September. That's all they remember. That's what shows up.

Starting point is 01:29:27 On the baseball reference. We remember. Babes hit that music. Let's be tight about it. Stimulator season is bad. on. Let's start out in the National League. Yeah, sure. Why not? I just clicked away from the postseason bracket. Good job being quick, Jake. Okay, as of today, let's start with the new people at the dance. The New York Mets would take a quick flight to Milwaukee for three.

Starting point is 01:30:02 Ooh, Mets. The Mets, the Mets, the Mets, the Mets, the Mets. They're high. And a reminder, this series keeps flip-flopping. As of today, Arizona would host the San Diego Padres. Padres. Who! Pitching. That means the Dodgers and the Mets, New York, L.A. It's the Mets.

Starting point is 01:30:28 Ho! Ho! Ho! Phillies! They're going to face San Diego. Wow. Oh, Phillies. Shelfie Cohen, Phillies went out. Phillies in the Mets for a chance to go to the World Series?

Starting point is 01:30:47 That'd be a hot, it'd be a hot series. It'd be a hot series. And it's the Phillies. It would be the Phillies. I mean, Jesse Winker, though, in that series? Are you kidding me? Winker and Castellanos? Each of them win one.

Starting point is 01:30:58 The Please Bang My Wife Series. In the ALE.L. Houston, host Minnesota, The Twins for three. Houston. Houston beats the twins. Sorry, Trev. The Orioles post Kansas City.

Starting point is 01:31:17 Kansas City. Wow. Wow. Strong pitching. Yankees. Face Kansas City. We just saw this. Yankees.

Starting point is 01:31:26 Okay. The Cleveland Guard Dogs play the Houston Astros. Houston. Yeah. So that means the Houston Astros and the New York Yankees are going to tee it up again. Yankees. Whoa! Oh, yeah, right.

Starting point is 01:31:41 Whoa. I just put it in. New York Yankees versus the Philadelphia Phillies, your World Series winner. The Phillies. Congrats to the fighting Phillies. The top alpha dogs.

Starting point is 01:31:54 Thank you to my alpha dog, Trevor Goof. Everyone, enjoy your weekend. Watch some ball. Watch some sports. Enjoy some nice weather. My God. Touch grass.

Starting point is 01:32:05 For love of the game. Thanks, everyone. Chick sucks. Oh, man. I got something to tell you after the show. Okay. Excited. Hopefully, Beams, I'll leak it on the internet again.

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