Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - Are These Teams Turning It Around? | Series Recap

Episode Date: May 5, 2025

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball. We had some historic grand slams going on. A couple big sweeps. Trevor Plouf calls one team dead. You'll have to listen to find out. Let's talk ball. I don't think I'm going to call team dead. Almost.

Yeah, you are. Yeah, you are. Charlie Morton. Byron Bucks in. Oh, the buck stops here. Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball presenting you by Seat Geek, Code Talk in 2025. Jake Storelli, Trevor Plouf.

Rob Sharako producing A Johnboy Media production Should we get one of those noises? I think we've got a new noise this episode I can't wait for that, Trev. You're going to be surprised. Rob was cooking something up. Huge weekend of baseball.

It's May. It's Cinco de Mayo. May the fourth be with you, all the bad fake American holidays. I guess Cinco de Mayo's not. That's a real one. Trev, how are you? What?

Yeah, happy Cinco to Mayo. We're going to get into more of that later. I'll let you know what's going on for that pop. Yes, may the fourth be with you. I did watch Little Star Wars with the kids this weekend. They don't really get it. I want them into it. It just became a Fortnite thing,

so they want to be into the Star Wars world. I didn't grasp them like I thought it might. So we're going to keep trying. Which Star Wars did you show them? I went for the old school. Right. Yeah. Episode four I started with.

you know that's what you're supposed to start with which doesn't make any sense yeah yeah i still think they're a little too young to appreciate what star war that star wars was at its time like they're so used to cool stuff like i don't know that's the problem now there's just so much cool stuff right to do and to see like the internet is ruined like like like a beautiful sunset people like i whatever i've seen that online like no you know teddy look at a real sunset teddy teddy's all like like but I, old Star Wars or Daniel Schneeman highlights. And that's what he should be watching. Historic Grand Slam.

Treve, let's talk ball because there's a lot of good series. A lot of guys we got to talk about, a lot of dudes ball. A lot of lit stadiums. The Kyle Stowers audio, we're going to play that. Let's do some American League baseball. And it starts with the American League powerhouse that's known as the Detroit Tigers. They take three out of four from the Los Angeles Angels.

Casey Mize have a great start to the season. The only thing that got in their way was Kyle Hendricks, who I promise you you're going to hear more of slinging 85 miles per hour up there. But these tigers are playing amazing baseball. Trace Sweeney and Carrie Carpenter with four hits on the final day. Scooblo and Netto going at it? I love it. Pump it into my veins.

Detroit winning a lot of baseball. Ball Angels, I said I'd treat you fairly for a couple weeks. You've lost a lot. Kansas City Royals, they take two out of three from the Baltimore Orioles. Couple shutouts in the first two games. The Orioles behind Dean Kramer shut them out. Then Boobich in the pen, they shut down the birds. And here comes a baby bird.

Jackson Holiday two homer game. The Orioles. Oh no. They give up seven home runs in the final game. game and lose the series Big Michael Masseybaum. Birds. Ereles winning.

Rays take two out of three from my Yankees. Max Fried. Where would the Yankees be without Max Fried? The answer is bad. The answer's bad because the Rays, they come back late in game two. And then Jonathan Aranda. This guy can really hit.

Big final day. Rays win 7 to 5 and they take the series from the New York Yankees in the Bronx. The Guardians, they take two out of three from the Blue Jays after dropping the first game. Bassett, George Springer, with the big hit. After that, all Guardians. A couple big outs from their bullpen. That's what the Guardians do, people.

And how about Daniel Schneider with the two homer walkoff salami? Wow, historic. And we saw it. We saw it. Well, it actually goes with Stowers. Anyways, Guardians take two out of three. three. Twins! Trev! Twins take two out of three from the Boston Red Sox. A very what the Red Sox have been this year. They win a very nice game. Bayo looks amazing. They win game one. Bregman can't

get out. They run into the nightmare, Bailey Ober. And how about a dream for Cody Clemens and Raj seeing his son do it at Fenway, unfortunately to the ire of Red Sox fans? And then they lose that the final game on Crochet Day, spinning their wheels, Sox fans. Mariners are not, they're just winning, Treb. They win two out of three. They're having Texas Rangers fire their offensive coordinator, which that's always something. I'll tell you what. Brian Wu is something. You're going to hear more about him later. He had an amazing start. Rangers salvage it on the final day of the series, and they put up runs. That's what they've been looking for. And your last American League series. Well, the

Astros, they must have, oh no. The Chicago White Sox take two out of three, and it was almost three out of three, if not for a historic Jake Myers' performance. Hey, how about the White Sox? Trev didn't like the Unis. I did, so we're kind of beefing on that. Luis Robert is showing up.

Where could he be showing up later this season? Maybe somewhere else. Astros, a little scary. Go, White Sox, Go. That's what happened in the American League. We got to talk about the uniforms, but first, Pop, I know what you need. You need the American League standings. And I got them for you.

I'm going to start out east. You asked where your Yankees will be without Max Free. They'd be 500 because they are 19 and 15. He has four stopper starts for them. They are on top of that division. Boston Red Sox 18 and 18 in second place. Two games back. So 500 team in second place in the ALEs.

The raise 16 and 18 matching Toronto's. record. They are also 16 and 18. And those birds are the baby birds anymore. They're not. Oh, interesting. Not they're pitching. Not they're pitching. No. No. Those are grandpa birds. 13 and 20 for the Orioles in the central two teams kind of doing it. Or three, oh, three teams. The Royals. Okay. Detroit, 22 and 13, uh, top the division. One and a half games above the guardians who are 20 and 14. The Royals, you're right, man. They just keep on winning. 19 and 16 for them after a pretty bad start. They've been hot, Jake.

And then my twins, 15 and 20, the White Sox 10 and 24 out west, Seattle. Okay, Seattle, 20 and 13 at top of the division, two games ahead of the athletics. Or 19 and 16. Houston, 17 and 16, Texas Rangers. If there's any team that should have an offensive coordinator, it's a team out of Texas. It makes sense. they're 17 and 18, and then the angels who you are mad at, the bottom of the division at 13 and 20,

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I'm coming home, I believe from Teddy's basketball game on Friday. And there's a lemonade stand set up in my neighborhood. And that happens from time to time. These kids, they should be doing it all the time because, man, they're making cheese in these lemonade stands. So we stopped because I see. a sister of one of Teddy's teammates who always like hangs with my daughter Ila like she's

great so we stop like for sure we're gonna get lemonade a hand her a $20 bill we get two lemonade's and like keep the chain what ball in so we're doing that and then like we're kind of like we're getting ready to leave and then I look out the side of my car and I see who else is there and it is the Kardashians and Kim's daughter. So they're running this lemonade stand. And I'm like, okay. And I drive away and I go, I just gave $20 to someone that doesn't need my $20. You gave the Kardashians 20 bucks? Thank you. Thank you guys for watching talking baseball. We'll just call it. Just call it. We gave it our best and we landed short. Wow. Okay. Get some, get yourself. Let's talk some ball. Let's talk Detroit Tigers.

Because Trev, they are currently the best team in the American League. I think with Detroit, it was a question of offense. They are fourth in run scored. They are fifth in home runs. The pitching is all around elite. Carrie Carpenter is special. Riley Green with two homer games this past week. Like, Javi Bias, we talked about it last episode because the Friday happened.

it's overwhelming Treff I had a lot of questions about Detroit coming into the season and maybe I was naive and maybe I have some AOL central bias of the twins or something to do but I questioned I knew the bullpen was going to be good

we knew that that's fine and we knew like the starting pitching I had question marks about it because there were some legit questions but they've been excellent as well obviously we knew scoobble was going to be good flaredy I should have given more credit to because of, you know, the success he had in Detroit last year.

And then the other guys behind him, like they've rounded a nice rotation. The bullpen's been great as we expected, but it's the offense. You're right, Jake. It is really, I think, changed things in a season outlook for the Tigers Torkelson getting it going has been great. We talked about, um, have you buy as you're right.

I mean, look at the slash line. 309, 350, 479. And what's, put them, put them wherever you need them. He's just good. It's it's it's it's everybody on that team. They are playing excellent, excellent baseball man. And I don't know. I guess I just missed or or they're just playing better than like, I don't know.

I guess I missed. That's the bottom line. It feels like it's all come together. And we laughed last episode because, okay, yeah, McKinstree having an amazing year. Byas like people, people would have questioned, question the show. if we came on in the preseason we're like, you know who's going to be baller, Javi Baez? It's rhetoricals.

I mean, we talked about if he should be cut. And now he's, it seems like he's bought in. It seems like the guys are about it. And I guess Trev, we're focused on the hitting because the pitching makes sense. And it's also the best in the American League right now. So as we're saying, okay, Tiger's hitting, hitting, hitting. Well, it is originally fueled from the pitching, and they've been the best.

I also did have Dylan Dingler with an 800 OPEO. We're doing it. Get in, get yourself. And then Andy Dirks and Jason Benetti? Like, do they have just a complete squad? It's all coming together. It's all coming together. Oh, AJ Hinch, huh?

Dingle Jam, 25, you're in. You don't want to go into the Netto Scoob's beef? I'll listen to what you have to say. say I love it. That looks like you and me out there. If you're going to sit and watch a homer like he did, which was a nice majestic homer, he does that by the way. Netto can hit some majestic homers.

You know, you got to expect Scoobes to do the same thing to you when he strikes shot. The give and take, I'm fine with. And I think their quotes after we're fine with it. That's just a couple of dogs. Those are two dogs. Hey, give me nine nettoes and nine scoves. Who wins?

I win because I have those guys. Oh, you got one team with both of them? I thought they were facing off. I thought they were facing off. That would be a great team. That would be a great team. Treve, I mentioned the Detroit Tigers, and I didn't realize maybe it's just a central year.

The Tigers have the best pitching in the American League. The second best is the Kansas City Royals, eight and two in their last 10. And the boomstick came out. This team that was not homering at all, and it's going to be an interesting thing to see in a couple weeks. Did the Royals get hot or did they face Baltimore's pitcher? I think it's more of the latter.

You know, the homers aren't going to be there for the Royals. That's not the way the offense is constructed. They're going to have to manufacture runs. But every once in a while, yeah, you run into somebody, a team. Look, I've been on teams like this that just get your offense hot. Maybe they run this and maybe, you know, we're going to see like an offensive output over the next week from the Royals. but yeah, mainly I think what we've been seeing from the role is the series they've been winning has been because their starting pitching is legit. Their bullpen has gotten the job done when they need to.

And yeah, the Orioles, they just, they can't seem to find their footing, Jake. Trevor, I'll be honest with the, so we have a talking baseball document that Don Philly fills out and we go through and there's all sorts of notes. I also, I recommend for any baseball fan, if you're if you're getting lost in the. sauce this year. A, thank you for being with us. Subscribe all that good stuff. We love you. The MLB has 10-minute recaps that I like to watch, that it pops in, and you know, you get a minute from every game, basically. Quick math there isn't right, but whatever. Trev, I was watching doing Sunday 10-minute recap, and it's the Orioles, and I see Jackson Holiday Homer, Jackson Holiday 2nd Homer. And I literally, I said out loud to myself, I was like, they needed that.

Like they need another young breakout. They need something to hang their hat on for a little bit. And then when I saw they lost that final game and they gave up seven homers, I did want to call them dead. There's still too much baseball left. But they're doing everything poorly. Their offensive batting average and on base are bottom three. And they can't pitch it all that I don't know what to do with these guys.

It might be Jover. I also don't know. I mean, Kobe Mayo comes up. I don't know if they're looking for an offensive. of spark there. It's, it's, it's too early to call it a lost season, but it's trending that way.

And man, I just, from where we were to where we're at now with these birds over the last couple years, it's just completely changed. And look, a lot of Orioles fans are going to point to ownership and not going out and spending or making trades. And I think that that's fair as well.

because you can't continue like this and expect different things to happen. You need to go out and shake up this roster in a major way, or else we're going to be sitting here in the end of June, and they're going to be looking towards 2026. That's not what you want. Yeah, again, I know a lot of teams can do this,

but they got a whole, the problem is, they have a whole rotation on the IL. Braddish, Bethlyn, Greyrod, Rod, Trevor Rogers, Tyler. 100% Those are MLB. If that was the Orioles rotation, I think we'd be like, watch out for the Orioles.

But we need, every team knows that there's going to be injuries. So you had to go get some depth, which they did not do. Yeah, or they tried. And I mean, Charlie Morton is getting,

Charlie Morton is getting hit a lot. Yeah, look, if Charlie Martin was pitching like he's pitching years past, maybe we were talking about, what an awesome signing by them. Obviously he's going to be that.

Instead, we're talking about, hey, man, he's 42 years old. Like, obviously he wasn't going to pitch well this year. Father time's in a catch up. So I don't know. I agree. The injuries are obviously a massive part, but the Dodgers also have a ton of injuries, and they still have the best record of baseball. Yeah, I mean, that's a little apples and oranges, but yes.

It's not, though, Jake. I know. They're two major league baseball teams with billionaire owners. I mean, Dodgers, look, it's... Let's move on. Okay, let's talk about the Yankees. And hey, if you want to talk about Max Fried, that's cool. Yankees, talk about depth.

The depth of the Yankees is now getting tested. Their bottom of their lineup yesterday from 6 through 9 was J.C. Ascara, who might not be in a lot of people's books. Pablo Reyes, who might not be in a lot of people's books. It was Oswaldo Cabrera, who, like, guy and having a solid year. And then it was Oswald Parraza, who also might not be in a lot of people's books. So the second half of their lineup is getting a little thin, a little banged up. And dude, they've got two guys in their rotation right now who can't give a quality start.

And the raise, the rays did that. Zach Lattel looked really good. And they have some beef in their lineup, Aranda, basically. Yeah, I mean, they have also like Chandler Simpson coming on, the speed that he has shown he comes into pinch hit. What is that? That was in the top of the eighth and the second game that kind of went to arrive for the Yankees there. He comes in promptly steal second and third base, I mean,

to put the pressure on. So you have to love that. I do want to talk about that. Can we get the Volpe air up, Bobo? I don't know how quickly you can do. I should have let you know before the show. My bad. I want to talk about that because a lot of people were saying,

oh, this air on Volpe, but I think Viva. screwed him up. Oh, okay. A little friendly fire. Because you see this ball here. Viva seems to be going to the bag right there. That ball's on the shortstop side of Seguer base. Where are you going?

Interesting. Interesting. So look, right here, like Volpe typically right there would go field that ball and toss. He sees Vivas, I believe, in the corner of his eye. Now he's like, I have to field this ball, change my momentum and go straight instead of, you know, kind of just flipping. And I think it just screwed him up. And obviously that led to the Yankees losing that game.

Like, Vivas is not where he's supposed to be right there. Yeah, I think the Yankees needed the double play to get out of it. So I think Volpe knows if, hey, maybe Vivas should be there. I'm not going to fight you on that. I think Volpe knows the only chance that the double play is him fielding and throwing that. But it's also raise speed, man. That's Caballero getting down the line. Yeah.

That, you know, that that gets in your head when you're playing the Raisin. Dude, Simpson is a different type of speed. He's, we were laughing on talking Yanks yesterday. Like, he looks like he's returning kicks or so. It doesn't look like baseball speed. It doesn't look like short and choppy. So, yeah, the race put pressure on you in that way. And Volpe did bang up his shoulder to play earlier that inning.

So a couple things there. but hey, the race, the race just snapped an eight-game stretch of scoring four runs or fewer. So the fact that they're coming out with a series win in the Bronx, good for the race. I'm also going to be highlighting a few

Mexican ball players later on in the show. How about Jonathan Miranda what he's doing? You mention him in passing a little bit, but the slash line's incredible. 316, 414, 561 for the 975 OPS. 178 OPS plus. It feels like he's always making good contact. Yeah, he's good.

Guy that can play pretty much Infield position, pretty much every single infield position. Jonathan goes a round of bases. Ooh. Sorry. Sorry, that was Chris Rose humor. Speaking of, Guardians, Blue Jays,

Guardians take two out of three a little bit of dramatics involved in it. Yeah, I've got a new annoying name, Daniel Schneeman. second player in MLB history to have a multi-homer game on the road that included a game-winning grand slam with his team trailing and down to its final out. The other was Boston's Babe Ruth in 1919. Yeah, we got, I mentioned we got some facts on the sheet. Trev, what would you see from your guard dogs?

So, talking about Schneeman, I thought it was interesting because in that second game, he puts the raise or excuse me the raise he puts the guard he's got a little raise in him kind of makes sense guardians raise puts the guards uh on the board uh three to they're down three to one he hits the the solo shot it was only the second hit of the night for cleveland this is how cleveland wins baseball games all the time by the way this is nothing nothing nothing then someone comes up and does something it's crazy second hit of the night in the top of the hit three one then he comes up in the top of the ninth hits the grand slam It's the same exact pitch sequence on both at bats.

Got to try something different, Blue Jays. The first, the first was Yimmee Garcia, I believe, or was he the second one? No, first was Chad Green. Chad and then Yamiya. Slider for a strike, fastball, 95 miles an hour, middle in Homer.

Yemi Garcia, curball for a strike, fastball 95 miles an hour. The exact same location, Grand Slam. if you pull back both hummers if you want to do it if you're a guards fan go check it out they are in the exact same location same sequence

and he's obviously seeing the ball really really well right there and that's just again look what the guardians do in one run games they play in a lot of them they know how to win them and they showed it again this series they take the series to one run

wins they're a they're a demon It is crazy watching them play baseball. Well, and there's a little ripple effect here too. Jeff Hoffman has been so good for the Blue Jays. He pitches back-to-back nights,

which gave the Blue Jays three in a row. Yeah, it's one of those baseball as series and seasons go on, you know, getting a blowout win here and there so you don't have to use your good bullpen. Like, you know, we could be saying a very different thing if Jeff Hoffman comes in the game and pitch how he's pitched this year. we'd say, well, how about the Blue Jays got a nice series win over these guardians

who win close games? Instead, Daniel Schneeman's show. The Daniel Schneeman show. Say it the right way. Daniel Schneeman. Got a nice stroke, bro. He better fucking put some respect on his name. He's putting respect on his own name.

I'm not, people don't look for me for respect. Speaking of disrespect, you're twins, Trev. Walk me through it. They win two games. against the Sox? This is kind of like, did the twins win those games or did the Red Sox kind of like the Red Sox? This is kind of what they've been doing all season long as well.

Like opposite of the Guardians, they're like finding ways to lose games. I believe again, I read the standings 18 and 18 right now. They should have a better record than that. But they are just, they're finding ways to lose games. The twins found a way to lose the first one though.

Eddie Julian made an air on a Devers ball actually they called it the base hit but like it was a one one one game ends up as a two run single that he probably should have fielded would have been one one maybe the twins gonna sweep if he fields that ball

I'm being hard on my guy Jules because I expect a lot out of him and that one wasn't very good I think the best part of this well shout out Bailey Ober for another quality start like this is what this guy does It's all quality starts. He has one blowup start at the beginning of the year. Then he goes on a run.

He did that again. But Cody Clemens, that was really cool, man. Twins, you know, they brought in a ton of guys because their depth was being tested. Cody Clemens being one of them. Yeah, it's the two-run Homer in front of his dad to put him up three to one. Very, very cool moment in Fenway. You can tell, you know, Clemens was feeling a certain way. That was a bomb, too, by the way.

Roger and Cody. celebrating at Fenway. Very awesome to see. Happy for your twins. Seeing, seeing, see, see, Raj, nice Kentucky Derby hat, too. Do you think Cody was around for, he wasn't around for Roger at Fenway? Ooh, I'd have to cross-check the years. I doubt it. More like Yankees and Astros, Rod. Maybe some blue jays. I don't, I don't know. God. Oh, no. Those are some images. The frosted tips, Clemens. That's

Cheat co. The frosted tip. Where would the Twins be without Harrison Bader, people? No one cares. Where would, would you, if you were managing the Red Sox, are you putting that first basement mid in Rafi's locker or what? I think you kind of have to. Who else is going to play there?

I don't know. And dude, sucks for Casas. You know. Yeah, that was, it sounds like a, like a brutal. Very bad injury. Taurus. tendon? That's your kneecap.

I don't like that. And it was, I will say this, I believe he was wearing molded spikes, man. Oh. And molded spikes are so nice,

because they're so light. And it is feel really good on your feet. You know, you're wearing metal spikes all the time. Sometimes you just need a break, put these molders on. Let me tell you, man,

those molders can be slippery as shit. I used to like to wear them and then you just slip a few times on that base. I'm not sure if that's what happened here. kind of looks like it's what happened. You know, he like lunges for the base, steps kind of like on top of it,

his knee kind of extends. I don't know, man. If I'm a, if I'm a ball player, like it's the molded spikes are out for me. They really are. I'm not, I'm kind of blaming, I guess.

Yeah, you kind of are. Yeah, tough. A guy that's dealt with injuries early on his career gets this one, which, I mean, in baseball terms, is freaky. I think you have to look at it like this

from a Red Sox fan. perspective and I like I don't want to be I don't want to dismiss the injury I don't want to make it like I don't know but I think this could be the start of like the youth movement I know they haven't called either those guys up Anthony or Meyer up but maybe this is what causes that and maybe they go on a run because that Breslow did say neither of those guys will play first base so it does make sense that it would be devors you're not going to move story over there. Yeah, it's, I'm interested to see, man, and I, with a little bit of salt, I will say, it was funny seeing all the Red Sox fans on the internet yelling for Devers to go to first base when that used to be Yankee fan trash talk. It was like, oh, Devers was killing the Yankees, so Yankee fans would chime back with, you know, the chunky third baseman to, oh, he can't play third, blah, blah, put him at first.

and it's funny seeing Red Sox fans being like, Rafi, like, hey man, the third base pride stuff, that's really cool, whatever. And that kind of went away. I don't know, Rafi, if you like being on the field, grab that first basement and stay out there for it. No, I'm a DH, guys. You made that really clear.

Guys, I just don't think I can do it defensively. I've really wrapped my head around this DH thing and I'm feeling pretty comfortable here. Didn't really have a say in that, so. We will. Vive'I'll see. Vive us. Trev, let's do some mariners quick because they deserve some love,

and I know they're getting more love in this episode, but I want to give my AL Best Western Road Warrior to Brian. Woo-woo! Brian Wu, with an amazing start against the Texas rain. I mean, getting people fired type start from Brian Wu. 6.1, 1 hit, zero earn runs. You like this, Trev, zero walks, 8Ks against the Texas Rangers.

Over 75% of his strikeouts come on fastball. Coming at you. God, people aren't slugging against him. No low gill, no George Kirby. Someone need to step up. And Brian Wu did. He's a stud. I love the series for the Mariners.

Uh, bookend games kind of just blowouts 131. The first one, you mentioned Wu, his performance. Mariners get to lighter, which is he's been obviously very good for the Rangers. Uh, it was game two was the cool game for me. Uh, first pitch Homer by J.P. Crawford, our guy. Yeah. Try. J.P.J.P.J.

Uh, and then there was, uh, nothing for the Mariners offense until the night. Jorge Polanco pinch hit lead off double. And then our guy, Rowdy pinch hit. Yeah. To bring him home, two to one, the end of winning. And we're going to hear. hear more about the back end of that bullpen a little bit later, but the Mariners are on a freaking heater.

It's making me very happy. And I can only imagine what Mariners fans are feeling. Seeing their offense perform like this, it's like, where has this been for the last three years? Well, Edgar Martinez. Randy Rosa Rain, a 28 game on Bay Street. Texas, man, every quote that's coming out of there feels like sadder than the next. and every team goes through hard times.

Their offense is feeling mariners-ish. Yeah, it's interesting. There's some good players there, and they are working hard. They have a good culture there. I know the guys, you know, are doing everything they can. Sometimes it just happens, by the way, Jake.

Tough sport. Tough sport. And the Astros also found that out this weekend. White Sox. Take two out of three. Lou Bob's hitting a little bit. I can't believe you don't like the jerseys, trap.

A couple things. Yeah, shout out White Sox win the series. Great. Lance McCullors comes back. You know, that's pretty decent in his return. I have mixed feelings on Lance McCollers. Oh, that mixed feelings. Okay.

I have my reasons. Jerseys. Okay. And I don't want to hate because I know a lot of work goes into these. They're just too bullsy for me. I said that before. They kind of looked like the Yankees gave away the... That's the whole thing.

I know. It's too much. Too much. I didn't think that was going to be your answer. Yep, the whole thing is... They're the bulls. I know. It's too much.

Okay. Like... That's the whole thing. Like, their franchise is down so bad. They were going and drawing off of the 96 bowls. Like, that's what we're... we're doing. Well, so that's, that's the hilarious part is that, I mean, the Bulls as a basketball franchise have not been very impressive in recent years. They're dialing back the clock.

You know what would make this better? What's that? If they all wore number 23 when they wore those jerseys. Oh, okay. I'd be into it then. MJ night. Wow. Lakers do a Kobe night. I like them. I think it's fun. I'll be honest whenever I see like on Instagram and it's like, imagine if teams did this. I think all the sports should just like support each other. Like that's such good sports promotion. Yeah, I get that. Like, I, uh, I just like the other ones better too. Like the south side

ones are great. If the Rockies rolled up in Broncos unies, I'd be all about that. Um, you would. Rockies winning some games. It's a national league, pop. Let's burn it. No who's burning it. You're San Francisco Giants.

And there's Willie. Willie Adamas with a couple big boy swings to get on the board at home for the first time this year. Giants take three out of four from the Rockies. Rockies won that first game. They were starting to get hot. Things slowed down for them. San Francisco, back to their winning ways.

We'll see where they are in the standings, add. Phillies! They take two out of three from the Diamondbacks, and boy, did the Diamondbacks know how to put on a show, which is code for that bullpen is horrifying. and the Phillies have a little bit of the same that went into a crazy final game. D-backs end up getting it in the 10th, 11-9. But the Phillies, they won the first two behind a good Aaron Nola start.

And Baby Jesus out there too. Max Kepler talk, you know that gets Trev going. Nationals, they take two out of three from my red. Sinty, we want to believe in you. But you can't do it after you drop the final two games to the national. Luis Garcia getting his hands in against the cutter. I do like that. Matt Rosario, a little redemption game.

Talk about turning on a homer. Hunter Green doing Hunter Green things. 12 strikeouts in that first game. Hey, good for you, Nats. Good for you. Speaking of, actually, I'm going to save them. Dodgers, they take two out of three from the Atlanta. Braves.

Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Six shut piece, that's all he's been doing this year. Freddy, welcome home. he homers against his old maids. Austin Riley bails out the Braves. Two homer. All of the Braves runs. Dodgers, take two out of three.

Cubbies? Cubbies fans are starting to feel themselves, Trev. Colin Milwaukee, Wrigley North? Whoa. Whoa. But they can do that when they win 10-0 in the first game. PCA hitting homers to my doppelganger. We might talk about that.

Speaking of doppelgameres, Caleb Durbin. My short, Fire Hydrant King with the big hit to help them salvage the series. Shoda banged up. Talk about that. Mets face the Cardinals, and the Cardinals take two out of three. Hey, now, baseball can happen to you. Double-header Sunday. Cardinals get two one-run wins.

Michael the Grie with a nice start for them. Victor Scott with the big robbery. And then Willie and Brendan Donovan hitting in that other game. Mets, you'll be okay, maybe. Ace. Take two out of three from the Marlins. An Electric Series, I talked about historic Grand Slams. Kyle Stowers, Stowers Powers.

And also, listen to the crowd in Miami. It was lit. They want good winning baseball. They don't get it this weekend as JP Sears. And your guy, Goner Hogland, with the big start. I'll let you talk about that more. And your N.L. Road Warriors, it's the San Diego, Padres, they sweep the pirates in Pittsburgh.

And how is your bullpen, Trev? Because it's not better than the Padres. They are first in bullpen ERA. Suarez, 06 ERA. Jason Adam, 09 ERA. Estrada and Morehon, helping them out. This Padres bullpen is real. They are on a five-game win streak.

And that is what happened in the National League. I always had you as more of a Yo Hel Pozo guy myself But you've seen his body I've seen it I'm looking at it He looks He looks like he's smuggling stuff out of the cafeteria

Shout out Pozo you want the standings pop because I got him The National League We're going to start out east Yes the Mets did lose two out of three But are still top that division 22 and 13 Two and a half games above

The Philadelphia Phillies Max Kepler Hot I'm trying to tell people that 19 and 15 for them The National 16 and 19 The Braves 15 and 18 And those Marlins We want winning baseball

I need to go to Miami Wasn't F1 just there You love Miami and you haven't been in a while That's some good times They're 13 and 20 for the Marlins In the Central You're right about those cubbies 21 and 14

Three games above the Brewer No not the Brewers Three games above the Reds who were 18 and 17, one game over 500. Milwaukee, one game under 500 at 17 and 18. St. Louis, 16 and 19. And then those Pirates, 12 and 23.

Out west, it is a gauntlet. 23 and 11 for the Dodgers, top of the division, only a half game above the San Diego Padres, 22 and 11. The Giants, 22 and 13. Arizona, two games above 500 at 18 and 16, and then

it's the Rockies at 6 and 28. If you just got those Broncos jerseys, maybe they would turn things around there or not. Kyle Farmer though. Shout out my best friend Kyle. Those are the standings pop. Shout out. Your best friend Kyle.

And I guess we'll stay with Rockies for a little bit. Treve, I don't know how deep we need to dive on a lot of these NL series. I don't want to say chalk. The Giants after they went through their first kind of real side of the season, Again, maybe this is a case of the Rockies being the best medicine. But Willie Adomis, two homer game in San Francisco, that feels important. And dude, Robbie Ray, seven-in-in-in-shutout. Robbie Ray, Logan Webb doing his thing, the left side of the infield,

just getting into it, chappy with the big Homer or Grand Slam, excuse me. That was a funny highlight to watch. Okay. because I don't know who was pitching for the the Rockies at the time but instantly it's base is loaded obviously Grand Slam Chabin hits the ball like center field

and instantly the pitcher just starts jogging to back up home plate and then he's like oh shit it's a homer that's hitter bullying I'm going to be honest trip that's hitter bullying you're doing that pitcher's doing his job

I guess but let me chime in it cracks me up that that's part of the pitcher's job. You just give up a double in the gap and now you got to back up third. That's such crap. And you've got to cross pass with like a base runner. That's such crap. That makes me so happy.

You're bullying. I am. Giants do what you're supposed to do. They took three or four from the Rock. Hey, and not going to be a ton of Rockies love this year. Kyle Freeland, the most career starts in Rocky. franchise history. That's That's cool. He's from the

area. Yeah, he's got a good quote. I actually like whenever he speaks I like this guy. Right. I know you like a lot of guys on the field in Philadelphia. Bryce Harper with his signature opposite field homer and I think our guy, Shelfy, tweeted out like he's like when that Harper swing comes out, that means he's about

to hit $450 for the next two weeks. And try the final game I was laughing earlier on this season because I think the dimebacks and the Cubs had a crazy game the dimebacks and the Reds maybe or someone else had a crazy game and then they end up in another one here and I was laughing because I was like,

man, you want good baseball in one episode you were just like, that means they're bullpens, man. If you're playing electric games, that means you're giving up runs late. Yeah, and they are. I mean, the Phillies say the first two games, Kepler with a couple big homers there. It's nice to see him kind of,

like settle in. There's a bunch of talks of platooning and Kepp was like, now, how about I just hit homers and then you don't have to platoon? How about that? Yeah, then the last game, look, we knew, I mean, shout of the snake's friend of winning this game, but Shelby Miller, who's kind of getting the first crack,

I guess, at the closing job as Puckin and Martinez are out. You know, he gives up his first two runs of the year. Yeah. Tough, Bob. Tough time to do it as you finally get the ball when you want to get the ball. Um, Yeah, I mean, the Phillies, Harper, I think, is maybe the biggest story here.

And he really hasn't been going. So a lot of those guys on the Phillies offensive side, like it's just been like pedestrian. And they can't be that way. If they're trying to catch the Mets and they're trying to, you know, be the team they want to be, Harper needs to like lead that charge. He needs to be an absolute force, which he hasn't been. I also want to shout out Nola, two great stuff. starts in a row after a really tough start to the season.

That's got to be welcome for the Phillies. And then, you know, you get Suarez back. It gets banged around a little bit. But it's just good to see him also back in the rotation. When Ranger Suarez is on a baseball field, that's good for baseball. Love watching him field best. Yeah, and Treve, it is interesting. A lot of the Phillies are doing fine,

but they kind of need to turn it up. Whether that's Bryce, whether that's T, whether that's J.T. The only guy who is, it's Schwarbs leading baseball and home runs. He's, dude, his swing is so, I don't know what I was watching.

It was like an intentional talk clip. I'm the new Kevin Miller, if you don't know that. And they were talking to Schwabes and they were talking about like, what's different from now, from when you were a rookie and they started showing rookie highlights of him.

First of all, the swing looks exactly the same. Really? Except he was taking daddy hacks back in the day. Like that's good. It's in way more control than his Cubs homers because those things he was just like, I don't know if I've seen a person swinging the bat as hard as he was swinging it early on in the Cubs days, dude. Remember when he was leading off?

Is that, how's history going to look at that? Like, should I just be over it? Like the lead off position has changed. No, it's awesome. Get on base. It's awesome. It is awesome. Swings. Oh, yeah, Bobby's trying to show some of the Cubs swings, man. They're just so aggressive.

He wants to swing so bad, which I like. And reminder, if you haven't watched these clips, he was in the choir in high school. Just go watch it. Might not even a choir. What's the, what's when you're in like a quartet or something like that, like a barbershop quartet? Okay. I think it was more of that. Okay. You get everything here, people. including the Nats taking two out of three from the Reds. I kind of talked a lot about it on the way by. Anything you have, Treb? Well, shoot.

I want to talk about the Nats, but Hunter Green doing Hunter Green things is crazy. 12Ks through six. The 12th K was against Ruiz, and he threw his bat, like, and it was just like, utter dominance on the baseball field. he's got, I think he's leading the National League

and whip right now. The walk rate is down. The homers are the same, but the walk rate is down. He's having a phenomenal season. And then shout out the Nats. Shout out the Natch. Your guy, Ahmed Rosario, huge game.

Yeah. In game to do it. God, I just want to talk more about the Reds a little bit because they are in second place. They are in second place. In the Central. And Santiago Espinal has been phenomenal for them as well. So they're getting a bunch of contributions.

Obviously, James Wood, huge game. I talked about Ahmed Rosario. Nats are fun to watch. They can be fun to watch at time. Take the series from the Reds. Great series, Nats. That's all I got. Yeah, man, we just want the Reds to be better. I know. It's like I'm excited about the Reds. Ellie's got a hit streak. Sorry, Nats fans.

McKenzie Gore. leading the majors in strikeouts. That's really good. That's really good. Padre sweep. Trev, there's a lot of baseball, man. I'm overwhelmed. I don't think we need to go too far into any of these series right here.

I mean, at least this one, Padres, just get the job done. I mean, this is what you're supposed to do to the pirates. Gavin Sheets continues and does his thing. But this is, the Padres are just a much better baseball team than the Pirates. Like, they're just better. Pirates are the second worst team in the National League. Third worst team in baseball. Like, what are we doing, Pittsburgh?

You have a dub every fifth day. You do. Yeah. I don't know. Like, I guess great job Bailey Falter on game two for the pirates, but then Nando scores the winning run on a freaking... It's not a pass ball. That's a wild pitch.

It's not a pass ball. I... It's a wild pitch because it hits the dirt first. We're yucking today, Trev. We're rolling. We're knocking down the walls because we need to watch this Fernando clip. Because it is insane. If you read a box score and you see, oh, because I don't know what it says. The catcher could grab the ball from the other hitting box.

It's interesting because you know he's getting as big a lead as he can at third base. And as a third baseman, you've got to be jockeying him back. Shout out Kentucky Derby. That's good for me right there. You got to do some things, whether you're faking a pickoff. I used to do like fake signs. Evan Longoria taught me that. That was awesome when you got like a rookie on third base.

And you just like flash some shit. And he'd be like, what the fuck? You like go to his third base coach. Love that. You got to do something. Nice. So he's getting off as much as he can. And then I really there, he's going to break.

As soon as that ball goes. in the dirt, and then he's reading Bednar, who, like, just gives a little slow reaction. Like, there's no way he's beating him. I don't think it is even a slow reaction. I'm not going to pitch or dock him. He throws the pitch. He kind of does the pitcher, like, land, and then he runs home. Fernando's just faster and better.

That won them a game. I also like that he went in feet first there. Me too, Trev. Trying to tell our kids, all our kids on my youth team want to slide ahead first. I'm like, why? You have no reason to slidehead first. And you don't even know how to do it. You're falling.

When you're a kid, it's so exciting to slide head first. Dude, I was, yeah, I don't want to get into that right now. Let's not then. Tough second game for the old SoCal Padres. Trev Dodgers, Braves, I'm talking some more Yamamoto labor. So I'm going to save that. But I'll let you, Chef. What do I have on this series?

kind of more of the same. Obviously, you're going to talk about Yamamoto. Hey, shout out Grant Holmes for kind of like matching Yamamoto until he didn't. And then the second game, the big three really got it done. Muki, Shohei, Freddie. And then you're right, yeah, Austin Riley, Sunday Night Baseball, all four runs driven in. Dodgers tried to make it a game or did make it a game.

And then, you know, Braves held on to that. I don't know. Dodgers good. Brave still like we're chugging along we're trying to find the footing doesn't help that you know you're playing the Dodgers and they are a very good baseball team but I feel like they're closer than than farther away like they're on their way Dodgers seven game win streak uh get snapped yesterday so they are they are who we thought they is this just a freaking yeah we need a kunia thing oh interesting is that is that the spark that that

that offense needs? I mean, the guy won the MVP, so like, that's, we're wondering if that's great analysis. It would be really nice. Well, I mean, yeah, there's a lot of really good players on that team.

There are a lot of good offensive players. I just think, not only do you want what he brings on the field, but it's just like, it's just something new coming back. Just a shakeup, if you will. He's,

you know, he does that, not just his ability, like he's a pole, rising player. I think sometimes that's good for a team, just a little shock. Yeah, Atlanta, it's kind of, it's what we're saying about the Phillies before. Like, no one's going nuts.

Like, you need that guy who's, you know, got the one dot going on and can carry for a little bit. And hey, maybe Austin Riley's about to do that. Because we, he kind of was that guy and we haven't talked about that in a little bit. Ronald would be great, too. They're playing the Reds for four. You know we'll be locked in on that.

Treb, I think the last series to really say, sink our teeth in. Cubs brewers. I was on record saying like, hey, I need Milwaukee to get, Milwaukee's been so good in the Central and it's so early in the season. I didn't want to get overwhelmed. I've been saying that word a lot. Overwhelmed with how good the Cubbies have truly looked this year.

Like the Cubs have looked amazing. Like almost like five stars, no comments. That was me leaving a fake review. I don't know what that was. They head to Milwaukee And I was kind of wondering I was like, is Milwaukee going to do one of this? We're going to look at the sheet on Monday.

Milwaukee takes two out of three. They win a couple one-run games. The Cubbies punched them in the mouth, man. And it's their new party trick. Pete Crow Armstrong is everywhere. Three homers in the first two games. Ben Brown with a big start. Like, the Cubs look amazing.

They do. I want to give them, you know, the flowers they deserve, obviously a couple guys who are really doing it for them. I mean, Michael Bush coming over. He's been great. He grew Armstrong. We know, I mean, he got pissed that we didn't name him to the All-JM team.

I don't know if he's going to win the fan vote. And this might be one of those things where we kick ourselves because he might win every other month and not get the Silver Daisy. Follow along that show if you don't know what the hell I'm talking about. That's our All-JM team. Here's a thing, though. The Cubs are obviously just a much better baseball team than the Brewers right now.

They are. Yes. But are the Cubs going to be able to survive these injuries to the pitching staff? Obviously, we know about Justin Steele. Now, Shoda goes down with a hammy. Like, are they built for that? That's my question. Trev, there is going to be an arms race at this deadline. Man, hey, maybe this is going to be the silver lining for Pittsburgh.

I don't know if it's Heen Dog. know if it's Keller. Dude, the price tag for starting pitching is going to be nuts. Yankees are dying for any starting pitching right now. Cubs are going to be looking for it. I mean, every team always is, but teams with real world series hopes are looking for guys that can throw any innings. Because they've been relatively healthy. They've only had six guys start games for them, you know, steals out. Now, you know, I'managa should be, it depends on the severity of it, but probably a month because you're going to take two weeks to let it heal, then you got to throw.

Let me read you the names in that rotation then. Tyone, Matthew Boyd, shout out. His season's incredible. We just went follow for follow on Insta, by the way. Did you? Me and Matthew Boyd, yeah. I think I'm, he followed me too. Did I follow him back?

Not sure, I got to look at that. Tyone, Boyd, Ben Brown, who's got like nasty stuff, but kind of inconsistent. Colin Rea, like, that's not, that doesn't sound like a World Series. to me. But I guess what do I know? I do assume that there's plans either to bring somebody up, not familiar with all of the prospects. I know they have one of the best systems and all the baseball.

Is somebody on their way up? Or do they have to go and make a splash soon? Yeah. It's going to be one of the storylines. They are, they look amazing. They look amazing. You can't squamines. this season.

No. Like you have to just go make whatever, because number one, obviously Kyle Tucker is a rental. They got to figure something now. Hey, and I want to do, if you're at this point of the episode, um,

and you're enjoying this. This is a little old school talking baseball. We're probably going to go a little long today. Comment below. Say you're about it. Um, because we're, we're trying to play the YouTube algorithm game.

We're open with the people, Trev. Um, and YouTube wants it a little shorter. So if you like it, share and all the good stuff. Um, because yeah, I mean, A, Trev, have you seen my doppelganger yet? I mean, insane.

Insane. That pretty good arm. Pretty good arm. I, it turns out he is a college wrestler. Um, in shock to no one. Um, got tagged a lot in that. Um, and a compliment to myself for still looking young. That guy's in college.

You do look young. Like right now, that's a, you look like you look like you can. could be in a frat and you look exactly the same. And that was a great F-bomb by that kid. And dude, if you live in Wisconsin, wrestling is your thing. Right. I feel like that's perfect for him.

Yeah. If I was next to him at the game, it would have been like, oh, look at these twins. So I don't know. Maybe he can spark the brewer's season. Let me tell the people about Shady Ray's. As we move on to our second half of the show,

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That's code talking at shady rays.com. Go get yours now. Is it time, Bob? It's time for performances. This guy stood out for Trev. Was that you in the lab, Rob? That's Rob's voice, all of those. One of them is Jake.

but yes. Oh my. That's, that is pure radio. Yeah. That is pure radio. So we don't have to say that anymore because that's kind of was always like.

You want to listen to it again? No. I'm going to tell you about Jake Myers who saved the Astro season on Saturday with a four-for-four game. He had a double. He had a triple. Oh yeah. Two homers and seven runs driven in. The only

victory of that series for the Astros as they were visiting the White Sox and I think if you get swept by the White Sox or the Rockies or maybe even the Orioles. You're out. Your season's done. So congratulations to Jake Mars. Honestly, what a game. He did it against like lefties,

righties, sidearmers, everything. Went opo, went pulled. It was just, he was absolutely locked in that game. And for a guy, I guess like doesn't get a ton of love. I wanted to give a little shadow tour guy, Jake Myers, huge game. Yeah, the broadcast was being honest,

but it was kind of backhanded. I think it was his first hit with two strikes. Yes. I think it was his first home run. So everything they were saying was like good, but it's because you've been bad. Wins them that game. It was a historic nine hole, like 13 total bases.

I think there was the second most ever out of a ninth hole hitter. And we love a Jake here. Yeah, we do. Come on. Trev, I'm going to, and it was watching his confidence build, which with each swing, that was pretty fun. That was pretty fun. Trev, I'm going to go, well, I'm going to half double because there's, it's just a clip I need to see. I need to, Rob, if you have the Kyle Stowers Homer with audio, because again, Miami, I don't know if they turned up the mics, but also sometimes when you have a half empty stadium,

you get a little more echo and the cheer like gets there. Because the people in Miami, God, it should be a baseball town. Treve, we need to get involved. That should be your Colorado. Here it is. Stay red hot. Swinging a ball lifted in the air. Okay.

I'll give it to you. I'll give it to you. Know how the Rockies are my retirement job? I think Miami. I think the Marlins. Yeah. Okay. Maybe it's just like an off-season thing.

You go there. You're there through April and then you're out back to Cali. I don't know. I'll let you. I'm going to rehire Skip Schumacher and I'm going to bring John Jay back. Number one, number two, bam. New City Connect debut for them as well, which is interesting. Every.

Yeah, Sauer's great. He's actually been crushing the ball. Last 20 games, 366, 396, 62 for the one daughter, 21 runs driven in in that span. Miller's command was all over the place that inning. He just jumps on the fastball because he couldn't throw his off-speed pitches for strike. So he understood the assignment and got it done.

Kyle Stowers 321, 387, 928 OPS. Where'd they get him from? Where? Baltimore. Oh, that's right. So that's, hey, dangerous times in Baltimore all around. Remember when the Cardinals, it felt like every, every outfielder doing good things in baseball got traded from the Cardinals. We're not there yet, Baltimore.

Like literally every single one. That was crazy. That was nuts for a while. Trevor Rogers. Nice. Yeah. Everyone loves a Trevor. Trevor.

I told you I'm Dublin and I guess I'll keep this tight even though I don't want to. It's Saturday night. I'm watching ball because I'm about it. I'm about that lifestyle. I see your guy, Jack Flaherty. I'm like, you know what? I like watching Jack, snapping curve balls and, you know, trying to strategically use his fastball to get to the slider.

Like, I love watching Jack pitch. On the other side was Kyle Hendricks. 7.2 innings pitched, four hits, one earn run, zero walks. Man, watching the, we talked about dogs earlier, watching this old dog Go at it. He's not going to sneak 90. No 95, no nothing.

Trev, I was laughing. They were talking about his cut change, which is just code for a cutter that's not fast. Man, watching him make up pitches on the fly. Here's 70. Here's 81. And it was also kind of full circle. teams need pitching. Kyle Hendricks is probably going to end up

on a contender this year. I don't know what he's going to do, coach. I'm not all the way in. But to have almost eight shutpiece in you for a night, teams can use that. We just talked about Chicago needing pitching. I don't know. I don't know if he's high on anyone's board right now.

Right now. We're still in a swing and miss era. But no, that's awesome to see. Little shades of like elder Jared Wee. And I remember, like, you know, obviously he used to throw that pill pretty, pretty hard, you know, mid to upper 90s. Then towards the end of his career was more of what we're seeing at a Hendricks topping out at 88. I'm glad you mentioned Tim. Hey, man, I'm just telling you, I'm watching, I'm watching Cookie Carasco twirl it for the Yanks right now.

Yeah, I know. That's interesting for you guys. The league is needing pitching. So if Kyle Hendricks can throw a couple more of these, uh, 86. past your face. And this was against the mighty tigers who he talked about. I can't believe he didn't mention

Gunner Hogland debut. I know. Little Jeremy Helixen in that windup? I don't know. Six names pitch, one and run, zero walk, seven Ks. I mean, Trev, maybe we hear about some more of these guys.

And Flago. Dirt Nasty's on Fuego. That means I'm on fire, baby. Like Waco. There are some guys on here that need to be on here, starting with our guy Austin Riley, five for 12 in the series. We saw the two homers and the four runs driven in.

He's actually done well with runners on base this year. He's hit in 386. That's the second best in the NL. They need him to go and go fast. Michael Garcia for the Royal. Speaking of a team that needs some offense and he's been playing better baseball, he went six for 11 in the series,

two homers. He's hitting the high fastball well, Jake, 440. on elevated pitches this season. How about Loris Goreal Jr. 5 for 11, a homer, 3 runs driven in. Trey Sweeney had some big knocks in that series, along with Kerry Carpenter. Combined these two dudes.

Went 14 for 30, a double, three homers, and 12 runs driven in between them. That's a nice little series. It was a four-game set. For the week, is this your favorite player in baseball for all the Pardomo? One of the most likable.

I don't think so. Mine's still Ozzy Albies, I just watch him take care of his fish tank. It has nothing to do with what he does on the baseball field. Draw the Perdomo, 10 for 21, three doubles, eight runs driven in. He's driven in 14 runs late in the late innings this season. That's tied for the most in the major leagues. Love that from your shortstop.

He's also hitting 417 with two outs this season. That's best in the National League. Brandon Nimel had a big series. He had 11 runs driven over the last week that leads Major League Baseball. We talked about Willie Adom. Thomas, eight for 21 with three homers in this series. Ryan Jeffers went eight for 20. Two doubles, two home runs.

He's slugging 682 with runners and scoring position. Second best thing, A.O., we need more out of that from the rest of the twins. It's good to hit with runners and scoring position. Did you know that? Wilson Contreras goes nine for 24 with two homers and eight runs driven. I'm going to give you some pitchers because that's what I do too. I'm fair. We're talking about who's going to pitch in Chicago.

How about Ben Brown? Because he went six in his pitch with no earn. runs only four hits allowed for the Cubs on Friday we talked about Gunner Hogland nice debut from him I love listening to Dallas Braden gush over him Robbie Ray seven innings pitched eight case only two hits zero earned runs he's done seven innings and back-to-back starts for the first time since 2022 how about that Aranola we mentioned two really really nice starts after a tough start to the season this one was six innings pitched eight K's no earned runs against

those who were they playing against what was that Diamondbacks that's who they were playing again sorry and the last one I got Reese Olson a lot of tigers on Enfuego five and two thirds innings pitched 8Ks only three hits no earned runs

he's allowed an OPS Jake of just 344 on his breaking pitches this season as the best amongst qualified starting pitchers in all of baseball Trev, if people are watching on YouTube, I want them to rewatch that segment. You sent me to a dark place because I was just trying,

who is my favorite, like, non-Yanky to watch? And man, I don't know. I feel like I need to make. Oh, I thought you were frozen, so you were just thinking. Oh, dude, I was like, I was in a daze. I was going through like every player on baseball reference. And I was like, wow, I really like watching Nolan Aeronato play defense. I was like, ooh, man,

Mani Machado and his swing is nice. Pete Crow Armstrong, cutting balls off in the gap. I don't know. I guess everyone comment below who's your favorite favorite player to watch not on your team.

Because I think, yeah, I'm going to have to craft up a list this. Dude, Pete Crow Armstrong was just, some of the stuff he does defensively is so dumb that it doesn't look like anything and it's something. You think we're going to look stupid for our all-JM pick.

I was on, Pete. So you can feel... Your show, too, don't blame me. Right. I will blame you. I will blame you. I got my receipts out. Trev, we then put him down to pick him up. Batters who are struggling these past two weeks.

Our guy, Brent and Doyle, it's been a tough go for him recently. Five for 44. The lowest on-base percentage against right-handed pitching this season. 2-1-2. Let's snap out of it, Bren. Let's have a summer. Let's have a summer.

Matt McLean. My king. Six for 48, batting just 0-71 on pitches over 95 miles per hour. That's a tough scouting report. Keston Hurstead. Heston, you're starting junk on the field. You got to be doing better than five for 37. Slugging 114 on the road this year.

Lowest in Major League baseball. Trevor Story. Ah, our guy, batting 026 on pitches out of the zone. You. God, that's tough. Were you a good bad ball hitter, Trev? No. No.

It's got to be there for you. Yeah, put it over the plate. I'm going to mash you. Who's the chase? Who's the best bad ball hitter you played with? Rosario? Yeah, he's a good one. Yeah. He doesn't care.

He's just going to hit it. Let's go, Trevor. And then our guy in Tampa, Cameron Meisner, Tampa player generator, was balling out. Seven for 42, 095 with runners on base over the past two weeks. So, hey, it's just to remind these guys, the two weeks are done. This can be your marking point. Let's put in our rear view. Let's get hot.

Also, coach, the injuries, some big names. You mentioned Shoda at the end there, and the Kossus year-ender, pretty brutal. Tommy Edmund goes on the IL for the Dodgers. Watch out for what that means for them. Walker Bueller for the Boston Red Sox, right? Shoulder, they're hoping it's going to be a minimum. Austin Hayesman keeps getting banged up for Cincinnati,

and he's been contributing when he's out there. ICF for the Pirates' right hamstring three to four weeks. Ramone Urias for Baltimore, he'd been playing pretty solid. He's got a hammie. Otto Lopez for our Marlins as we're trying to turn that franchise around. Let's start picking things up. Brandon Lockridge is back for San Diego, playing wherever they need him.

Cattel Marte for the snakes. Let's get hot. Tyler Stevenson in Cincinnati, him and Connor Wong, and Nick Fort. Catchers are back. Corey Seeger is back for the Texas Rangers. That could help. You mentioned Ranger Suarez and Lance McCullors,

a couple of your dudes. Bow Brisky and Matt Brash, twirling the pill, and Brandon Marsh, part of the potential platoons coming in Philadelphia. Those guys are back. We are back. Let's start everyone's week.

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And especially in Los Angeles, where we have a huge Mexican-American population. population. I wanted to give a shout out to those people. Mexicans, Mexican Americans who I've just grown up around and a couple different things. General observations from being here. There's no one that cares about family more than Mexican families, which I think is awesome and I love.

And I wish it was more part of like what we did of my family. Just, you know, they're always getting together. No one's going to work harder. the Mexican Americans. We've seen that time and time again. And dude, these dudes play baseball. We see it all the time here. When you're growing up, especially playing youth baseball, there are teams, you know, you could say, like, for instance, like we play against a team in Cam Rio, who is mostly Mexican American. And these dudes are freaking ballers. I'm talking nine new baseball right now. But I just love it because I played with a bunch of these guys. And their love for

baseball is such a huge part of their culture as well. And you just really see it all around here. So I wanted to give just a shout out to the culture, man. The culture is really, really cool. And I guess, I mean, Mexican Americans are kind of everywhere in the country, but we just, I just around them so much more here that I have so much respect for them. I wanted to give a shout out to one of the Mexican baseball players that's in America right now, who's absolutely bawling out.

There's a bunch of them. Isaac Paredes, Alejandro Kirk, even Randy Rosarena. It's like technically sort of. Sort of. Yeah. Citizen.

Yeah. I'm going to go with Andreas Munoz. Of the Seattle Mariners, who has been perfect this year. Hasn't allowed a run yet, Jake. Not just like an earned run, hasn't allowed a run yet. 16 innings pitched.

only five hits on the season, 20 strikeouts. So he's pitched in 16 games, one inning at a piece. There's only been a one inning where he didn't strike somebody out. Every other time he's pitched, he struck somebody out, again, to a zero ERA, 12 saves, and we talk about the Mariners. Oh, my gosh, the offense is there. You know, what are they doing? You know, it's so awesome to see that.

Where would they be without a guy like this closing games out? We see other teams that don't have, shout out the Diamondbacks who lost their closer. What does that mean for you? They know, Andres Munoz, to be able to close out these games has been such a huge part of why the Mariners are where they're at. So I don't know. It just felt right to shout out the Mexican heritage and baseball and then highlight one of their players, man, because this guy's been an absolute stud. and I think we're giving a little bit too much credit to the Mariners' offense

when we can also be spreading that love around to their clothes or at the back end of the games because he's been phenomenal. A 1-88 whip or FIPP, excuse me, on the year as well. He's been doing it. He's awesome. Man, something about the way he throws the ball, the kind of falling off the mound that it looks like, it's a little bit out of control that I think that's,

I think there's some sneaky mental warfare there for a hitter. You see a guy throwing like that. there's just something uncomfortable about it. Like when a guy lands like Mucina or Maddox, it's kind of like, okay. But when a guy's throwing the ball like that, and it's a hundred, and then he gets obsessed with his slider sometimes,

um, nobody's hitting him. No, the sleeves are always a good look to. Hmm, okay. You got arm warm. He's, uh, hey, shout out. And yeah, I opened up the show and you were like,

what was that? I was, I was more so reference, A, made the, the fourth becoming a national Star Wars holiday is pretty ridiculous. And I'm not trying to be a hater. It's just like, wow. Like, look at our society. And then how a lot of Americans treat Cinco de Mayo was what I was referencing.

Although in a Monday this year, that's kind of tough. But I'm sure the college kids and the youth will still find a way. Great standout, Triv. Great standout. I guess it's a pitching day, which that always feels. feels awkward for us. I'm doing the break glass in case of emergency award. There is a few different ways I want to go about this.

I was looking for any excuse to talk about Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who you mentioned regrets we might have for all JM. He had the best ERA, but he was a start short of some of the other guys, so he kind of got outvoted early on this year. The ERA sits at 090. in his seven starts this year. 40 innings, 49 strikeouts. I did this a lot, but I'll bring it up again,

and it's just weird how baseball works. If you remember his first start for the Dodgers last year, he got knocked around. It was the game overseas. If you take out that one game last year, Yoshinobu Yamoto was 17 starts to a 253. This year, he's doing better. guy got paid the most of pitchers ever gotten paid.

And Trev, I don't know. I do think there's something here that he gets overshadowed by Otani a little bit. Because, okay, in a world where Otani doesn't exist, I think this guy's a superstar. And why did I call it the break glass in case of emergency? Because I honestly wanted to do this just to hype him. Listed 510-176, like the whole... There was questions if this whole thing. thing was going to work. It's working. And I brought up his baseball savant and I was like,

okay, you know, I know the splits got to have good numbers. 098 against the splitter. So that's pretty damn good. Fastball is 163 batting average again. So yeah, I mean, that's working. What blew my mind, he's only thrown, and this gets a little tricky with cutters and sliders. It says, he's only thrown 18 sliders this year. 86 miles per hour. So the speed's different than his cutter, which sits at 90. He's thrown 18 sliders this year, which, okay. So that's two a game, like three a game?

Nobody's hit it yet. So when he needs it, hey, I just happen to have this fifth pitch that you haven't seen yet. And nobody in baseball has hit it yet. So whenever he's got an emergency, here's the slider, you're not touching it. He needs to be discussed more. I agree. He's been phenomenal. And I believe none of us picked him for the Sy Young draft this year, even though he'd never received Syung votes.

That was just a massive mistake on our part. A couple things, he doesn't walk anybody, which I think is awesome. So you're not putting extra runners on base. and then the mechanics, which Robbie kind of highlighted there with that last clip of him throwing all three pitches. The mechanics are incredibly sound and everything comes and looks exactly the same out of his hand. And that's when you're just, when they're focusing, they're trying to limit, okay, two pitches. I got to really look for the split, but the fastball's still good. And then they throw the slider, which you're just not really expecting.

I mean, it just puts you in a whirlwind as a hitter. But I think it's the arm action and the repeatable mechanics that get guys. I mean, look at those pitches. Yeah, I don't know. What are you going to do with that? It's all coming out the exact same. Ugh. I'm not doing anything with that.

He looks great. And as far as getting overshadowed by Otani, he's a big deal in L.A. for sure. And obviously in Japan as well, I think that, yeah, maybe we need to be paying more attention to him. I think you're right. As far as, like, you know, on a national level and, like, baseball zeitgeist,

like, Yamamoto needs to be, like, on the tip of everyone's tongue when we're talking about best pitches in the league. And I guess he isn't right now. And this was his first start on five days rest this year. Because that's something the Dodgers were watching out for. And yeah, I don't know. He kind of got sandwiched a little with Shohei.

And then they signed Sasaki. So there was excitement over that. And yeah, I don't know. He was really, really good last year. And now he's probably been the best pitcher in the National League this year that, yeah, it kind of might be must watch. I might add him. Maybe he's my favorite player.

God damn it. Okay. God damn it. Hey, Coach Trevor Plouf, Rob Serocco. Thank you to everyone who tuned in today. You guys are the absolute best.

We will be back Wednesday for the midweek. Series recap, all of it. Baseball. It sucks. Oh, a little bit. Wade Miley. Homer. Every pitch.

It doesn't matter. Did you get wet? We're really hungry right now. I'm really hungry. You look more thirsty than anything.