Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - Bryce Harper Moving to 1B & Rays are STILL Undefeated | 649

Episode Date: April 14, 2023

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Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball. The Rays won't stop. We got some catcher walk-offs. Ajections. Harper gonna play first. Woo! Let's talk some baseball. Oh my.

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$20 off your first Ciki quarter. Trevor, I'll give it to you. How are you? Jake, the only constant in this world has changed. These ain't your daddy's twins. How many times have you heard that? Joe's texting me yesterday. And this is not going to be in this show because it's a different series. But as we know, the twins beat up on the Yankees last night. And Joe's text me said, make it stop, Trev. Make it stop. Yeah. I said that to him. So this ain't your daddy's twins. He goes, man, I heard that so many times. But it's a little different this year. Carlos Correa said, I'll take a few games off and I'll come back for that New York series

and throw up that nine spot in the first. Anyways. It's a shame we can't talk about it more. The same we can't talk about everything that went on in the game. It might come up on Monday. Anyways, I am doing great. It is Friday. The weekend is upon us.

I'm excited, man. There was a lot of fun stuff that has gone on during the week. I'm just all about baseball right now. I don't know if it's the pitch clock. I don't know what it is, but it's become a little bit more fun for me to watch. It has. I know we kind of talk about that every episode, but I'm just kind of shocked that, you know, April 14th. You know, I'm still kind of like usually it's opening week and then it's like, okay, we got the season.

Let's like get through it. But now I'm like looking forward to watching all these games. I really am, man. Do you feel the same way? I think I had the first realization, and I was talking with Dalton, who's doing stats with us, that, like, you know,

every starting pitcher coming through for the third time, like, Corbyn Burns went out and shoved, and it was like, okay, you know, this Corbyn Burns is back. Like, you know, you're... I'm sorry. Yes, if the question is, am I enjoying the baseball season? Yes, except for, like, 30 minutes last night

where your twins, I mean, We can't talk about it. We just can't talk about it. It just wouldn't stop. Treve, I did, before we get into it, we're going to burn the games, focus on some of the big topics. I did want to ask you, because, you know, A, pitch clock, you talk about being on the other side of that,

whether you're either one of the teams or in the broadcast booth, you know, that game last year had a chance to wander on for three hours, 45 minutes, and it's still, you know, at least you have that now. I guess you've probably been on both sides of the table. If you go down and one of those first innings happens and you're down 6, 7, 8, 0, I mean, can it be tough both ways? Like, is, like, your brain has to,

you don't view the game the same way, right? I mean, it depends on what side you're on. If you're on the side that scores nine runs and you're one of the guys that already got a knock in the first inning, the rest of the game is gravy, baby. Now you go for the homer. You didn't hit one in the first inning. You got your knock, though.

Now let's get some extra base hits. That's how you feel. Pitchers, they kind of relax a little bit more, let their defense kind of work. On the other side, your down nine runs, it sucks. Yeah. I mean, I've been part of a lot of games where you start down and you have to work your way up.

It just makes everything so much more stressful. You're in the dugout and say, no, just chip away, guys, a lot of game left. Let's get one here. Well, it's like, fuck, we got to get one here. and then four somewhere, and then three more. And then we also got to stop them from scoring. So it's just, those games kind of suck, to be honest with you.

Yeah, man. If you have no idea and you're listening to the show, Yankees 11 in the first is their biggest blowout in the first in it. It was nine, right? Nine in the first. It was their big, most runs given up in the first inning since 2000. Like 23 years. That was crazy.

So yeah, and I was going through the players' emotions on both sides, and I'm like, this is bizarre. Like, you know, almost like the twins. I guess you spun it in a good way for me, because I was like, are the twins miserable for the rest of this game? Like if you're a pitcher using your bullets in this game. But no, like you're saying, go out and let it eat. And if you get some more pie, it's a good thing.

Yeah, and you know, the only bad thing is sometimes when you're up that much, you know the base coaches are real protective of the runners and you'll hit like a double and the guy would like barely get the third base or a single for the guy in second you're like bro I need the ribby he scores standing bro we can't be disrespectful

the pitchers you think a pitcher is not trying to strike you out in a tie game but we got to be we got to be cognizant of his feelings when we're up too much Gosh, man. Treb, I, uh... Sorry.

I love all of that. And I was loving... I woke up with a Rye Grin this morning knowing that you had pretty good ammo on me all episode because the twins just fucking embarrass the Yankees like they had it in 23 years. So, um, let's get into it, shall we? Yeah.

Boogie that shit, man. Cool. And Trev, it's a good thing we can. can't talk about that Twins Yankees game because the twins took two out of three from the White Sox. And that's what we need to be talking about. White Sox tried to give away the game they won. Twins scored all their runs after errors in the inning. But they hold on to it.

Hanser Alberto, Trev, your boy boy doing it. But that's all the White Sox we got pretty much because a fun game too, a back and forth first inning. Luis Robert. it in the ninth, but your twins come back and win, and then they do it again on the final game. No Correa, and Kyle Farmer, scary, hit by a pitch in the face. He has to go, like, straight out of there. Absolute chaos. Twins win the series, and Trev, they haven't lost this series.

I think we talked about that a little bit. This series, I don't know, man. My Yanks were in it, and Guardians fans, Chris Rose's Guardian, sound off in the comments. I don't know. It's kind of a, yeah. The Yankees came out. Big number. First inning of the first game. Looks like they're going to put up a six. They don't. Guardians come back and then they shut it out the rest of the way. It's three, two, guardians win. Weird game. Yankees blowout game two. Cole and the boys, they put up 11 big number. And then a little comeback win by the Yanks, that final game that allowed them to enter, though we haven't lost a series club. Franchi Cordero season? Have they tapped into something?

Weird one. Go check out Talking Yanks. And go check out your Baltimore Orioles because they can score in a hurry. You might hear about Ryan Mountcastles, 9 RBI Day. You might hear about Adley Rushman's walk off Homer to win it in the final game of the series for them to take three out of four games against your Oakland Athletics. The A's, they won that third game. Brent Rooker, getting another look for the Oakland Athletics,

putting up some big numbers. I turned Canadian for a second there. Orioles, they can score in a hurry. They change my mind a little bit. Ray sweep the socks. Oh, my. They won't stop. They do it every different way.

One-nothing in the first game. Brandon Lau. A lot of people not happy. I didn't put him on my top 10. second baseman list down in Tampa. They win 1-0. And then the rest of the series, they do it the other way, Trev. 7-99.

That's what they score, including the comeback in that third game. Oh, by the way, Tosh Bradley, one of their prospects. He makes his debut. He looks nasty. Four-game sweep of the socks. It's hitting Looney Tune Time in Tampa. The Texas Rangers take two out of three. from your Kansas City Royals,

Royals, man. Really struggling a hit early on this season. They get it going in the last game, and Vinnie P. Starting to put it together. But, yeah, they lose 11-2 to the Rangers in that first game. The Heen Dog got cranking, breaking records

while the boys were bopping on the other side. And then Jonaheim walk-off, catcher walk-offs. Former Daisy pedal winner, Jonah Heim in the 10th, gets it done. for them. Thick-neck Josh Young with a big day at the plate in that one, too. Oh, DeGrom, didn't even mention him seven innings, nine-k's tour and runs, okay.

Your Blue Jays, keep rolling, Trev. Two out of three from the Tigers, it's what you'd expect. Tigers making some headlines for the wrong reasons. We're going to talk about Javier's running goof or gaffe. You sound off in the comments. How about Kevin Kiermeier, showing off that new wall and showing off that high testosterone that he's going to bring to the boys up north this year. Man, it all clicked in my head after watching that highlight.

Boba Chette with the big play, and the second one that helped dictate the game. Tigers are sad in sending messages. We're going to talk about that a little bit. And that's what happened in your American League. Trevor, ploof, the standings as they lie, raise. 13 and 0, buddy. The 8 and 5 and 8 in 5. keys and jays, 7 and 6-0s and the 5-8 Boston Red Sox. The AL, those standings feel a little real.

The twins are 9 and 4. Let's go. Guard dog 7 and 6. The rest are under 500. White Sox, Royals and Tigers. Texas Rangers and Angels are both 7 and 5. Astros are 6 and 7, the 5 and 8 Seattle Mariners and the 3-10 Oakland Athletics. Trevor, like I mentioned, you know, We're going to clip a few of the series in some of the big topics. I think we have to go back. Razor now 13 and O, and I think your giggle gives it away, man, that that's silly. That's silly.

I'm on their baseball reference page right now. And what I like to do during the season is go to a team's page, click on schedule and results, and it kind of just goes through the splits, the teams, the divisions, you know, game-by-game schedule. it's so pretty right now for the race it's all 1,000

67 positive run differential through 13 games like these games haven't even been close and like you said like they'll win the one nothing game because they have the pitching to do it but they'll but they're swinging the bats dude like they're hitting the crap out of the ball and that was the one thing we kept saying going into the seasons

are they going to hit enough like we know they're going to play d you know they got a couple guys in there they can bop it a little bit, but like one through nine are they going to do it. They are saying, what were you guys even talking about? Of course we're going to do it. And man, it's been so impressive to watch. 13 and 0, they go up into Toronto now, I believe. And I mean, you got Barrios, who hasn't been the ace that I thought he would become. You could see them doing all right, especially with Rice Muson on the bump. Then they get Kucci and then they have three

interesting ones in a row after that. It's Manoa, Hunter Green, and Nicolodolo. Like, I don't know. Like, I'm looking here. Like, I could see how they might lose one of these games, but against Banoa, they got Shane McClanahan pitching. So, like, that's an equalizer. This team, I mean, they're going to lose eventually.

But right now, they look so good that it's hard to look at the schedule and actually imagine it. Right? Like, usually you can look at a series and say, okay, I think they're probably going to win two or three or, you know, there's a tough one. They just match up so well. You talk about, you know, putting up Menoa against them, but then they have the answer right there. So it's been very, very impressive.

Bullpen, starters, offense, defense, every freaking thing is clicking. And I hope, like, we continue to talk about the race like this. And it's not just like, oh, remember when they started 13 and O and now they're just going to, kind of floundering. They, uh, I hope we all took the over. I'll say that.

I don't know if we did or not. God, I hope so. Might need a check on that people, because yeah, it's like that ticket, cash that ticket out. Cash the ticket already.

Draft Kings is offering buybacks on it or not. Treve, uh, and dude, think about this. Like even the other thing the race have always been good at, but it's feeling a little different this year. And hey,

13 and no make anything feel different. But Alex Menoa. You know, in previous years, lefties hit a lot better off of them. Lefties are hitting off of Manoa well this year. There's less shifting. You know, some people thought he could be a little bit of a regression candidate. Guess what? If you need lefties, if you need righties, like the raise will come at you however they want.

And they've got that empowered player mentality that it's scary. And it goes with their pitching that is constantly there. I mean, Jeffrey Springs goes on the I.L. think about how much we've been saying his name to start this year. I mean, they follow him out of the pen. Some guy makes his debut, and he shoves down the Red Sox's throat. I think there's a few things that can be true. I think this race team looks like they're really good.

I think we thought they'd be good. They look really good. Sure. I think there was an easy schedule, yes, but to go 13 and 0, that's different. Like if you go 10 and 3, that's an incredible stretch of baseball. If you go 8 and 5, that's solid. Okay, I'm getting too far away from it. What they're doing is gross.

And I'll say this. The hitting is what can make it different, Trev. Because we've seen Ray's teams pitch. We've seen raised teams play defense. The hitting can make it different. And I do want to see these upcoming tests. And it could be a little unfair, but that's where we're, we're out in the season. Because if the Red Sox are anything this year, it's going to be led by

their offense. I think that's what anyone would tell you. So if you're still going through these teams, the pitching they've faced is not your highest quality. It doesn't take away from what they've done, but let's see, let's see how they do against some of the big boys coming up. And by the way, I'm not saying like I'm betting on the other guys. I just want to see what it looks like. I'm looking at some of these stats. I misspoke. 67 positive run differential is not even right. Baseball reference hadn't updated it yet. It's actually 71. Thank you. So there you go. 13. Thank you, Sarah Lings on MLB.com. This is my favorite stat of it, okay? Because I don't think we think about the race as a power hitting franchise. We really haven't. No. I mean, when's the

last time we thought about the raise as being bombers? Never. Except when G. M. Man, and Choi faces Garrett Cole. Yeah. He could have talked about that a couple years ago, but he's not on the team. He's with my guy Bay, so we'll talk about that later. They are hitting homers. 32 home runs through 13 games. They have hit, excuse me, 32 home runs, and they've only allowed in 13 games, 30 runs.

They've hit more home runs than they've given up total runs. Yeah. Think about that. that is that's the difference for me because you can get out to a hot start with some of your guys and you know string together some runs couple singles couple doubles when you're hitting the ball over the fence ain't no defense for that and that's really i mean talk about an analytical view of the sport let's pitch let's strike these dudes out let's play a little bit of defense and let's hit homers that's the analytical dream and they're doing it right now and they're 13 and out I mean fuck dude and Trev think about how often we talk about you know whether it's Joe Madden

or the race front office and now they run the Dodgers too like all the guys the other thing that has to happen players have to ball out Brandon Lau Yandi Diaz Randy Wander Franco

I mean Perettis like know the guys on the race because they're the ones doing it and they're nasty. You know, you're not pointing at a shift. You're not pointing to a weird theory. You're not pointing at a clock that comes out of the bullpen. These guys are freaks, man.

They throw from every different harm angle. No, dude, these guys are nasty at baseball. Could they lose every single game going forward and still be 500? It seems like likely. I'm talking about in April. For the month, it's probably close, right? That's nuts. Probably play 26 games.

games, just rest everyone. Don't even show up for a week. I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the Maroons and the Gothams. I feel like we got to mention that those teams. And they've gotten more shine out of this than maybe the race. Once's the last time someone said Maroons or Gotham, and all of a sudden, every single episode we're talking about. Whoever's got the rights to those jerseys.

I mean, they're slinging them right now. By the way, we got a fire race shirt in the shop. Yeah. Dot.jomboomboimmedia.com. That MLBPA thing has done well for us, I think. Those, the shirts are, opens up the board a lot. Flames emoji. Interesting.

Who came up with that idea? Okay. Only took us three years. You really, you want to do that on the air? Trev, the other. This is, hold on, hold on. What? Someone in the chat here on our amp.

If you want to, like, be behind the scenes and listen to us to do really stupid stuff before the show, go on AMP and join us. These people, our guys here. We're treated with some stuff that I forgot we were on AMP before the show. Tom A says talking 1880s baseball with the Gothams. We should do a segment where we go into, you know, you get your 1880s voice on. Yeah, that one. Yeah, right. And we talk about the Gotham's and the Maroons, maybe.

Just a little bit of light on those two teams because, you know, it's not fair that we don't highlight the individual players on those teams. Imagine the freaking names that we could get. from those rosters. I think next midweek we bust those out. Okay, I like that. Yeah, the Jimmy's and the Jowels. Trev, the other big AL topic

before we chew through some of the series quick, Javier Baez, hey, Tigers fans, welcome to the season. Tough time to join the party, but Hobby Baez is running, loses tracks of the track of the outs, gets doubled up, gets bench,

and, you know, A, we haven't been talking a lot of tigers since their, remember their first season with Hinch, those resurgent tigers that were coming up and Torkelson was on the way and they made moves in free agency, Erod and Baez. We haven't been talking about them a lot since then because it hasn't been pretty. But, you know, Hinch and he admits it, which we, at least like that, he's like, you know, I benched, Havi, because I'm trying to send a message. You know, it's early in the season, and that's not going to go down. Trev, you know, you're always going to run into one or two of these a year.

I guess for this whole circumstance, where are you at? It's interesting because Bayez also had some quotes. He goes, I understand why it happened. But he goes on to say, if I was raking and we were winning games, I wouldn't have been pulled from the game. And that's, it's an interesting quote, because it's true. Yes and no. No, it's true.

It's 100% true. It looked bad. Obviously, in a way that they played the last couple of years, like you mentioned, and they're trying to set a standard there. And your best player, your most exciting player, like, has to lead by example. So I understand where a hint is coming from as well.

But that quote for bias, I mean, it's reality. Okay, like things get put under a microscope when you're losing games and you're having tough seasons like this and you're seemingly kind of, what's the, turn on looking for, like swimming in place, running in? Okay. They ain't going anywhere right now. Right.

I mean, they can't find their footing in that organization. So, look, Hinch has to do something about it. He probably was, like, happy that it was bias, because if it was some young kid, it doesn't have the same effect as it does if it's hobby bias. So I'm kind of on both their sides here. Hinch has got to do something. you know I'm not the biggest Hinch supporter I don't like

how we handle the Astro situation and this situation's like I don't know I don't know what this guy brings to the table that everyone loves so much I just never really figured that out I know you went to Stanford him and I are you know

alums sort of of that university shout out the tree I don't really have much on this it's just it's a silly situation I mean bias obviously you've got to know the outs I fucked up though and I didn't get benched. There was a time I was in Anaheim, Kevin Sully was pitching, one of my dear friends,

I wanted to make every single play behind him because he was really nice to me. Shout out Sloe. And we went to turn a double play. I mean, it's Taylor made double play to end the inning. And I'm at second base and I catch the ball tag second and I just kind of start to run off the field. I don't turn it. I thought there was two outs. I didn't get benched.

And we weren't even playing that good. Right. So it's like, you know, these managers kind of pick and choose. the times of when they do this. And this was definitely to send a message. Yeah. To try to instill the culture. We didn't really have that problem on that team particularly. You know, we played hard and we did our best. This is the message. And I don't know if it'll be heard. I don't know, man. These things are, these things are strange, to be honest with you. Like, throughout the clubhouse, like, I think Hinch probably thinks he's saying this message is going to reverberate through everyone.

But at the end of the day, it's like they're going to play another game tomorrow and or today. And if hobby bias goes and fucking hits the home run Hinch is going to give him a high five and they're going to hug and everything's all good dude yeah it's uh you know Trev I do this for the joke but you know Hinch Hinch hasn't been as good of a manager with the Tigers for whatever reason

the team just isn't winning as much games as when he was the manager in Houston um you know it must be that's been my take on managers this entire time like you're if you're a good manager you got good place No, and it's a thousand percent right. There's never been, no manager in the league could grab the Tigers or the A's

or the Nats right now and make them, like, win the division. That just ain't how it works. Like, I don't want to talk crap about Buck Showalter, because I think he's a phenomenal person. I really, really like Buck. But it's like,

everyone's, oh, Buck's the best. Well, you mean, just look at the roster you handed this guy. Right. I mean, come on, guys. I think, you know, over the course of, there are certain things people do, yes. Yes.

Yes, I think it can add and subtract a little bit. But yeah, you need a lot of the ingredients. You know, you can't just, I was going to make a cooking joke and I got out of there. I will give it to Hinch because you did say it's not just about bias. They've had some gaffes on the basis the last couple games and it hasn't just been biased. They've been kind of messing up. And his quote is, it's not even really about hobby. If you look at the last couple series, we've made a couple of mistakes.

and the one thing we control is our preparedness and our readiness. I mean, this is like straight from the managers at handbook. I feel like I've heard that exact quote from a manager before. Trev, can I say something that's not helping the situation? Coming off of the offensive season they had last year as a team. As ugly as it can get and you come out and we're 13 games in or whatever, they are 30th in batting average, 30th and on base, 30th in OPS, 30th, and run score.

There's 30 teams. The vibes ain't good. And I don't know what you do, because Trev, if you want another good laugh, I've dropped this over the offseason. You know, Hobby Baia is not the most beloved guy in Tigersland right now. They gave him the big contract, and he hasn't performed, and the team hasn't performed.

By war, and war's not everything all the time, he was their best player last year. So like, and, you know, hey, Eric Haas in his 110 games, I think he's got a good argument. After him, nobody does. It's crazy how bad they were last year. It sucks that it's now leaked into this season. And Trev, I don't know, man. I've got a little bit of World Baseball Classic still in me.

Just who Baez is and how he feels when he's playing. And remember when he got traded to the Mets? and he went nuts for those final 47 games. Feels like this is a guy that feeds off playing in, like, the intense environment. Like, he wants that. And it feels like he's as far away that as he can get right now that I don't know where this relationship is going. And hopefully it's an overreaction.

And maybe Javi Baez has, you know, an 800 OPS this year and puts in a nice year because it's just been 12 games. I don't know, man. I'm getting like squirly. We might have to figure this out and maybe Uncle Steve eat some money at the deadline and bring some back or something. I think the Tigers will be up for that.

I know that. Tigers will be up for that. Every once in a while we get a topic on talking baseball that I just know everything about. I feel so confident in what I'm saying. Playing ball on a bad team, I know all about it, David. What do you want to know?

What do you want to know about hobby bias and how he's feeling? I'm not saying I'm hobby bias. I know it was. This guy's electric. He's got the tools. What I'll say about kind of, it's tough to get up for games, man. They know they're not going to make the playoffs, dude.

Think about that. Like there's a handful of teams that know that. We know who they are. We don't have to go over it. We don't want to rain on everyone's parade, but they know they're not going to make the playoffs. Trev, I'll add a little fuel for you. Baseball, you can even have this littlest sliver of hope.

Like, I think the Pittsburgh Pirates right now are a young team that are like, we can make the playoffs. This Tigers team has zero belief in that. Okay, now you're going to make me name the teams that can't make the playoffs. No, no, no, no, no. We don't have to do that. I'm just saying the emotion that you unfortunately had to feel one year, I'd have to imagine that is brutal.

It's tough, man, because every single game, it becomes more about you than the team. Baseball really is a team game. And that's when it's really fun. And that's when you flourish is when you can like, hey, man, the pressure's not on me today. Like, there's other guys that can pick me up or like, hey, like, we won this game. And would it even play our best baseball? The Tigers have to play their best baseball games or get extremely lucky.

And I've felt that before, man. Like, talk about getting up 9-0 with the twins. Oh, yeah, I'm bringing that one back up. What I would have said back in the day, let's keep scoring, bro. Yeah. Nine might not be enough today. That's keep going. That's a difficult place to be as a ball player.

So I'm not giving excuses for Baia. He's got to go play. They paid him a lot of fucking money, man. You got to go put up, you know, do your thing. I guarantee he'll say the exact same thing. But my experience with it is it's just, it's difficult, man. And we're only in April. Travis.

It gets to freaking June, July, and you're sitting in your 20 games back. And it's like, holy crap. We have another three months. months of this or just getting beat down, it becomes very difficult to motivate yourself to, yeah, I mean, let's move on. I can't, you're bringing back bad memories for me. In the nicest way, like, you are an expert in the field and it's kind of unreal. Like, you're opening my eyes to a lot of things.

Like, you know, the Yankees went down nine nothing. But guess what? If they were playing the Tigers and the Yankees put up a two in the first, I would have been like, okay. Yeah. You know, why don't we put up another two? see what happens. Where if you're that other bad team and you think,

you think it can happen to you, sometimes it does, man. And that's one of the worst feelings in sports. Uncle Steve, take the bill. Throw them at third. Take a couple prospects with them. Why not? Can I get some shoutouts to some guys in the other series

before we get to the National League? Yeah, I guess you're twins quick. They haven't lost a series yet. Who deserves love over there? I mean, everybody, the entire roster, because they've already dealt with a bunch of injuries. I mean, Kepler has been out, Gallo, Polanco has even played yet, Correa's had back spasms. Now Kyle Farmer's out. He got, I mean, snaps for Kyle Farmer because he took one to the face.

And Lucas G. Alito had a tough reaction to it. I mean, he did not feel good about that. We love Lucas here. But the twins have been doing it, man. Like, their starting pitching has been good. They've been finding, you know, Michael A. Taylor has kind of stepped in and calling him mini Buckston. A.

A. And a lot of people are saying is he's, we got Buxton at home is Michael A. Taylor, baby. So we love that addition. Julian comes up and he makes his debut. He hits a homer last night. Like, they're bringing up some depth. And I think that's, you know, Miranda's been able to do some things. That's where the twins have faltered in the past is not enough depth.

And I think that's where a lot of people, you know, going into the season, looking at the roster. Even our guy Eno Serra said it. This is they're going to be relying on some depth and this is the best depth they've had in a while. So they've had to use it and tap into it already and things have been going good. You haven't lost the series. Open the game last night with a series

victory or playing four against the Yankees and they got game one. So things are looking good. People are happy with the twins and I had a little test with Valley Sports North yesterday. It went very well.

I could be talking and glowing about these twins pretty soon. That's crazy. I was like you kind of had a face for radio, but that's exciting. You know that's not true. Karen Jack, I kind of want to give a shout out to him in that series against the Yankees. He had a big outing there and kind of went off and even made Terry Francona say, hey, man, like I wanted to do that too. I don't know if Terry really means that or he's just got his guys back.

I'm not too sure there. That's a great. answer by Terry because you can't question it but you just keep it moving i um yeah he i don't i was a i was kind of like off karen check but i don't know like sometimes i'm like okay bro like you really are this yes it's genuine some really some relievers make it up that's james karencheck there's no doubt like he scares me a little bit oh yeah he's yeah I don't know, man. I just wanted to get him a shout-out

because that was pretty... It was intense. And sometimes when you see like intense things on the field, he gets you going a little bit. Got me going a little bit. He's kind of like went right at Stanton. Right.

Like he's got, you got to be a little off to like... I think Karen check is like, would unfortunately be ready to throw fists with Stan. And I think it would be unfortunate. But I think Stan's like, I'm okay. Up until the moment, yes. Stan would be like,

no, dude, I don't fight fucking nut job. man. Yeah. Got a lot of money in a really good life. You got a fucking blade in your shoe? Yeah, that series, go listen to Talking Yanks.

It was a weird talking Yanks. It was a weird series. Guard dogs, we're not going to put any peltz on our wall. We'll see you next time. Go listen to baseball today, not talking Yanks. Happy for your twins.

The Orioles, I think they're going to get some more love in a minute because they had some big boy performances. Wink, wink, wink, nudge. I do actually have something on the Orioles because Kyle Gibson leading the league and wins. Whoops.

Texted me a picture of you at the Orioles home opener and says, wow, thanks for saying hello. Wow. I can't believe you didn't go say hi to Gibby. Old school talking baseball, friend of the pod, labor pods, Ghiby. And you didn't even go say hi to him?

I'm going to talk Orioles in a minute. And I didn't realize how many fences I have to mend. Yeah, you do. bro. You do. Shit. Okay. What else? Let me go through. Let's see if we got anything else. We talked about Tampa. I mean, Boston, you got to get it going a little bit here, boys. Yeah. I have some pitching thoughts. I think I'm going to save them for later in the episode.

But yeah, I've been, you ran into the bad guys right now. And they don't, they're not ready to dance with them yet. I know Yoshita got her, our, our weird injury. segment that appeared at the end of the show let's get rid of that that's scary yeah there's a lot going on there i don't like that as of yet's um go matt chapman ao player of the week the first week still going off blue jays are doing their thing they look i i like the blue jays a lot if wasn't for the raise you know stealing the show i think we'd be talking a lot more about the blue jays and what they're doing also the i mean the yankees are pretty good too like the rays are just Hey guys, the Rays are more important than your team right now.

It's a special start. It's a special start. And I think people know... No shots fired at Rays fans. I think everyone knows we're not doing it for the clicks. But good for them. And it deserves to be talked about. Rangers beat up in the Royals.

Like I talked about, they hadn't been hitting it all. I don't know if they beat up on. They walked them off one night, man. And they were down a couple runs and they came back. My boy, Scott Barlow, gave it up. The first game, and all the hitting numbers were sad, the vibes were sad, but in that last game, Witt, Melendez, and Pasquintino,

which if you're watching Royals games this year, that's why they do it. But yeah, how about Jonah Heim showing up? We'll catcher walk-off action. It was a bomb, too. A little slide-piece. Yeah. I like that.

Trev, I think, you know, when we give out awards and stuff, I think we're going to circle back on a few of these. Heen, dog, I see you. Let's get through the National League. Yes. And speaking of teams that don't lose series, your Arizona Diamondbacks. America's team, the Galaxy's team?

People are asking, they take two out of three from the brew crew. We're off to a strong start this season. Corbyn Burns does this thing in game two, and Trev made it seem like you could hear about him later, but nothing you can do when he's just, being Miley Wade in the first game, gets rocked and lost to Zach Allen, who should have been on our side.

Young draft, Trey Jameson gets his first start. Lordus Correel is balling out. All these guys are balling out. There's speed everywhere, Trev. I don't know. People are drinking the Kool-Aid in the desert, and I might be one of them. Tori gets tossed one day. That was a good one.

maybe a breakdown coming off that. Gus Farland, don't throw that to Corbyn. Carol, get out of here. Snakes, two out of three. Marlins take two out of three and a little bit of Marlins' history, your first ever cycle. Trev, I saw you on baseball today. I had the same reaction.

How is this the Marlins' first cycle? Unreal. Luis Arise, why am I screaming? He was their big trade acquisition this offseason. gets it. He's in the history books for them. I was just screaming so loud. Phillies, 15 runs in that first game on Sandy Day. Maybe that's why I was yelling. Marlins, they get the next two. Lazzardo, and they win in 10 on the final game. Jorge Saler with a game-tying solo home run. Man, how about it, Fishies? Philly's?

What's going on up there? Bryce Hart. Harper playing first. That gets me going. Mets take two out of three from the San Diego Padres in the big city. Mets win the bread games while the Padres took the meat. 5-0 on Scherzer Day. And then 5-2, Snell versus McGill. Big Tyler McGill is out there twirling it again.

Big game, McNeil and Lendor in that first game. Bogart. He's been hitting for the Padres. My word. Two-run Homer in the ninth in that second game, the game they win. Good for you, Mets fans. Go listen to Shea Station, Jolly Olive. Got some notes from him on the games.

Braves sweep the Reds. Not shocked by the result, but all close games. You know, we go to extras in that first one. Braves win 5-4-7-6-5-4. Three wins for the Braves, three-one run wins. Uh, that's tough. Sean Murphy, walk off two run ding-dong. Welcome to Atlanta where the players play. A little bad news down there, Arcia, he hurts his wrist. He's going to be out. Um, man, Eddie Rosario in that last game, Treb? Feel like we haven't talked about him in forever. Braves roll. Cardinals take two out of three from formerly My Rocks. Rocky's won that first game. Trejo's going. Ontario. These aren't your father's Rockies. Let the kids play.

But St. Louis, they come back in that second game. Aronado ties it up. Nolan Gorman with the pinch-hit solo home run. My goodness. Jordan Walker keeps hitting Trep. Unreal. There's some storylines around this league. Hashtag this league.

And your Dodgers. They take two out of three from the Giants. We asked if they were going to turn it on. and Max Muncie has in a big way, and does he love playing the Giants? Some of the stats that were coming out about him versus them. Holy smokes. Ureus drops it in the first one.

Kirshaw on the back end. Well, hey, how about the Giants shun them out in that second game to get the win? And that's what happened in the National League. Trev, your standings. Thank you. Thank you. In the National League,

Braves are 9 and 4. Shocker. I feel like we haven't talked about them, and they're 9 and 4. Mets are 7 and 6. Marlon, 6 and 7. The Phillies and the Nationals are both 4 and 9. Uh, interesting. Okay. Brewer's 9 and 4.

The Pirates are 8 and 5. I wish someone bought their stock in their TPP, and already trying to cash out of it. Cubs are 6 and 5. Reds. 5 and 7 Cardinals, 5 and 8 Cardinals. D-backs 8 and 5 on top of the NOS like we expected. Dodgers, 7 and 6, Padre 7 and 7, Giants, 5 and 7, Colorado Rockies, 5 and 8.

Trevor. Yeah. Are you day-trading the pirates? Is that what's happening right now? You bought it low, still and high. I mean, I'd see what they were offering. Yeah, I would do it. I'd see what they were offering.

Cash out. See what the cash out's offering. Trevor, the biggest story in the NL, and Ian Hap's contract extension, which I was going to say, we need to talk about our guy Ian getting 20Ms a year. How about it? I called him nine figure Ian. Because I thought it was going to be like a six to seven year deal.

I put his AV a little, I shortchanged him on the AAV. He said, no, bro, I want to make 20 a year instead of 15 like you were giving me. Yeah. Congrats. I texted him. He hasn't texted me back yet, so he's big the crap out of me, yeah. No response. You think he has your number saved?

Do you think that's the problem? I think that because he's been waiting for that bottle of wine for three years, he's probably just like, man, this guy's kind of a loser, so I won't talk to him anymore. Or he could just be busy because everyone's congratulating him on being a multi-millionaire now. What are we going to do when he's around the office and stuff? I think I'm ready to fully sell out. Like if he wants me to be his turtle and entourage. I think I'm ready.

He doesn't seem like an entourage guy. He's too buttoned up. He's a real small circle. No, he would shudder at the thought that I just threw out. Of me being around him constantly. Ian Hap likes a dose of me. Let's talk about Ian Hap. Hold on. I want to get some thoughts off my head.

I'm his flu shot. Like he enjoys it for a little bit. He gets sick and then he leaves. Ian Hap. is a businessman. Okay, he does, he represents some athletic clothing brand that if anybody else did what he does on their social media with this athletic clothing brand,

I would be laughing at them and doing it. What are you doing? But Ian Hap looks so good in these, like, ads and these commercials that he does for this thing. He's a different person, man. Yeah. Like, he's kind of got a little bit of everything, professionalism to the to the max yes this guy's buttoned up no no loose strings anywhere with

Ian but also I think he can get down with the boys if he needs to like I think he's a got I think he's got a little bit of both man he's become a leader there in Chicago I'm happy to have him sticking around for that long but yeah dude I'm just really excited for him it's really cool I told him I said it's got to feel really really good because finding that 60 M's coming your way, man. It's awesome. Congrats Ian Hap. 61.

Thank you. And yeah, if he times it right, he'd still be 31 at free agency. So I don't know. I haven't talked to him yet about it. Oh, he big leagueed you too? I, you know, let's not focus on that. Treve, we weren't even going to talk about the Cubs. No, dude, you're kind of right, though.

Ian Hap, like, you're like, okay, Ian Hap, you know, you play baseball. He kind of checks every box. Like, when you step away, you're like, yeah, if he does a modeling shoot for like men's athletic wear, you're like, yeah, good-looking guy. The hair's looking good. He's in shape. Like, podcast, yeah, knock yourself out. Gold Glove, sure. If he has a two-run game, you're not shocked.

Like, he's got a cover. What's wrong with him? He's got so much time on his hand. You know what he didn't have right here, buddy? Yeah, I'm sorry. sick of this dude. Yeah. Piss off. Trevor, the National League. Not a ton of massive topics. I mean, the one that I just love is a topic in general. I wanted to save it for Wednesday, but I think the news cycle will move away by then. Harper playing first. That kind of blew my mind,

man, because we've talked about it a lot. There's the old stigma of first base. Like, I don't know, throw the big kid over there and let him play first. First base has become one of the, of the most athletic, important positions on the field. And for a Hall of Fame guy to even offer that, to be like, you know what, I know it might not be pretty. This experiment could end quick, but I'm going to go for it. Because it is not easy to go from outfielder to infielder, to play first base, to have rockets hit at you.

Never mind worry about the scoop on a double play or throw in a second. Like I, dudes like that, and you already knew it, but Bryce Harper loves baseball. And the fact he's willing to do that for a team man, pretty cool. We can go a million different ways with this. All the things that you just mentioned, scooping out of ball, making a throw at a second,

those are all the easy things. Like learning how far you can go into the hole before getting back to the base, you know, bunt plays, you know, relays. There's a lot of situations where you have the ball as a first baseman. And if you don't play there often, you can get lost pretty quickly. Yeah.

And I think, you know, with the shift being, with the shift being gone, it actually helps first basement out because when we had this shift, first baseman essentially became second baseman. And what they would tell you is get as, like, if you have a shift and your second baseman is a pull for a right-handed hitter, your second baseman is going behind second base. And you'd be essentially in no man's land. you go as far as you could go where you could get back to first base

and you wanted to have range so you try to go a little bit further and you just have to hustle it was a bad deal for first base and I think this the no shifting has actually helped first base amount defensively but for Bryce dude

my first thought on this thing was fuck he's bored like he's sick of rehabbing dude he wants to get in there as soon as possible when you're rehabbing you want to play and you don't want to just hit

like I want to go play and I think that's what he's really thinking is like okay if I can play first base I can free up the DH position we got a couple of dudes out there that really shouldn't be playing the outfield if anything they're gonna need some days off and if he's in the line of every day at DH

that means no Swarber no Castellanos getting to DH so if he can be at first base which obviously Reese not going to be there this year Derek Hall is going to miss a bunch of time so like they're kind of just piecing it together over there. If he could be at first base,

opens up the DH spot. Now, you know, what can they do roster-wise? They can put one of those guys at DH. They can also go out and get, you know, another outfit or maybe a defensive-minded outfielder or a guy that at least is serviceable out there, and now you can plug him in out there

and not just tie up the DH position. But like you said, it's going to be a long road. And they have Bobby Dickerson there, who's a great infield coach, and he's going to be working with him. and it could end before it even starts. If they get out there and it's just like not looking good or he doesn't like it or whatever.

But I think for the most part, Bryce is, he has that mentality where if he puts his mind to something, he's going to go finish it. Because it's worked every time. It's worked every time in his life, Trump. Yeah, I can see him like being out there for like an hour, hour and a half every day,

just getting his ass kicked by Bobby Digger. but loving every second of them. Yes. Because the alternative, Jake, is fucking sitting around twiddling your thumbs rehabbing, bro. So he's like, he's like a dog,

a puppy dog. He's like noodle when you've been gone too long. He wants to fucking go on a walk. Bryce Harper wants to go on a walk, dude. He wants to go on a run. Take me to the dog park, Jake. Athletes, they love their sport. Like, Kevin Durant is a baseball loser.

Like, he watches, like, he goes home, he watches games. Bryce Harper is a baseball guy. He's going to, he's probably going to be around it forever. Like he might be a coach and stuff. And again, he's got, he's going to end up with like 500 million in his bank account. So he probably doesn't need to do that.

The dude loves baseball. And yeah, you're right. Dude, this story could be gone. Dombrovsky could trade for a first basement. And everyone goes, whew, all right. That was close. But the fact he's willing to do that, man, because guess what? When you hear a guy get kicked to left field or right field, you know, you get a fly ball.

And let's see how it goes. It's not always easy for everyone. But you might not get another ball the whole game pretty easily. It happens. First base, if you start having a bad day, that can be a very long day. A very long day. So I love that.

Marlins, you won the series and a rise had their first triple. How the hell, first cycle. How the hell is that possible? They've been a franchise since 93, I believe. What? They're the last team to do it. That's what Chris Rose told me. I don't know.

Sometimes I don't trust all Chris Rose is really. research, but I think it's true. They're the last team to have a cycle. It did shock me, but it doesn't shock me that he's the guy to do it. He's been great for them. You know, I think, again, like, we talked about it when the trade happened. Like, this could be, this could be the win-win trade, you know, that he's always are going for. Like, I don't think team, I mean, I guess you'd want to fleece the other team in a trade,

like you'd want to send someone that just sucks and you'd get someone good in return. Obviously, it's probably the best case for that. athlete them. Like, you want to send them like a top starting pitching project who becomes like a good reliever for them. And you're like, yeah, you got something. This has been great for both sides. Yeah. So Lopez is doing his thing in Minnesota.

Rye's doing his thing down in Miami. And yeah, I mean, he's impressive, dude. I think he's hitting like 600 or something. I'm going to go look at his stats right now. Oops. Let's see. It's a casual six, you think? It was 587 the last time I tried.

It's 500 now. I'm sorry. Thank you. 23 hits and 46 at bats he's already amassed 1.3 war baseball reference war his OPS plus is 238 he's worth two and a third people so rise bro that's that's fun man I'm curious to see like what numbers they come up with in like arbitration for him he's making 6.1 this year I believe this is his first year of arbitration then he's got two more 24 and 25 and then he's a free agent

so starting out at 6-1 I mean usually they kind of double this guy's got real potential man to like get paid and I love it he's a good dude too nasty I love the way he hits it's violent it's contact while being violent that not many guys can do

otherwise you'd see more guys do it I think it's really hard to do by the way I think he looks great in the Marlins uni I don't know if it's just the uni Or if he got it fit in well If he changed the numbers up He looked good I was like whoa, that's Louisarise

He kind of looked like Diesel We're on the Twins Oh, that kind of good Like it fit them well I once Diesel might have been Overstepping my boundaries But you were like Okay Luis Arise

We're on the Twins it was like Okay, this dude just hits everything I don't know I sound off in the comments for all our Louisa Rye's body people. Trev, we are in it, man. I guess what any of these series do you think you need to, what do you need to scratch on?

Scratch and itch on. I want to snap to Jordan Walker, who had his 12-game hitting streak, snapped yesterday. After going 0 for 4, he's 20 years old. Yeah. He doesn't look. I mean, like, he kind of does have a baby face.

Like, when, uh, Kelsey did a rapid fire thing with him and he, like, when you, when you, when you hear him talk, like, okay, he's still a young kid. But he's just so massive and he's so, like, um, intimidating in the box that he doesn't look like a 20 year old. But I think it's, I mean, look, dude, that's, that's incredible, dude. It's incredible at any point in your career to go out there and have a hit for 11 straight, or 12 straight games. Like, that's, you feel like you're on top of the world.

But to start your big. career like that. I mean, talk about confidence, dude. And we kind of, we touched on this on baseball today a little bit. He's been really aggressive on the fastballs. And a lot of teams will approach a rookie and say, all right, here's fastball out or third. What are you going to do with it? Teams are going to stop going to do that. They're going to stop doing that to him. I even think the Brewers in their series started flipping up first pitch, breaking balls to him. It's going to happen. I think now you celebrate this 12-game hitting streak and you're happy and you have confidence. I want to see the little micro adjustments that he's going to have to make.

And I think he will make them. I think he's good enough to do it. He's got enough veteran leadership there with Goldie and Aeronauta. They can really help him get through stuff like this. But I want to see those. And that's like one of my favorite, one of my most favorite things to watch young guys go through is that little transitional period where it's like,

teams start to have a book on you, pitchers start to figure you out. They don't treat you like a rookie where they're kind of like trying to get ahead of you to fastball. Like they have a game plan now and then it's up to them. It's a chess match, man.

We always talk about it in baseball. Like what are you going to do? You got to think ahead. That catcher, they have all, they have so much information on you. So much information on you. Where you're hot, what you're,

I mean, right now, like the biomechanic aspect of like, game planning is nuts. Where's his swing plane? Okay, well, let's not throw it there If your swing plane is a little bit more vertical Well, guess what? We're going to go top of the zone with you, motherfucker.

If it's a little more flat, we'll throw the sinker. You know, like it's, everything comes down to that now. So the adjustments are even more paramount. I want to see him make him. I think he's going to. Trev, you could show me a picture of him and I guess I would, I don't know,

I'd guess he's somewhere between 18 and 25. You know, he's a big dude. He's in shape. like, sure, I don't know when you talk about his age. That interview with Kelsey, that was a mature man. And at 20 years old, that always blows my mind. Like I'll give athletes to 25, 26 to kind of start changing the like you got to grow up. Because, you know, you live a different life, Treve.

I said, you know, you skip Stanford. You got the signing bonus. Like, you know, you play baseball as a career that life's a life. little different. And I mean, some guys are built from it. Some guys have to grow into it a little more. Some guys don't.

And there are some of the outliers that you can probably name a guy or two from your guy's favorite baseball team who it didn't work out. And it seemed like the stuff happening not during the games was part of the problem. Like, Jordan Walker, give me as much of his stock as you're selling. Go watch the interview with Kelsey. I mean, that's a, that's a dude. That's a dude.

They got to start winning some ball games, right? Yeah, five and eight Cardinals. Let's go. They'll be all right. They'll go. Jay Flair hot on Instagram. He's something else, man. Let me tell you, that guy, he's really coming into his own as a man.

He is. I can feel it. I can feel it. Like, he showed up in an outfit that was very much, some guys when you see like the NBA baseball whatever sport you watch when they show up in their outfits and you're like you're trying too hard

Jack Flaherty is like now so comfortable in whatever he's about to do that he's like look at I'll be that guy I know what I am that guy and he is and he is he's something else a couple things I wanted to mention before we get to the IL

where is it I had it up here right here Philly's offense finally gets going that's nice you mentioned they put up a bunch of runs on Sandy they got to get going Bryce and Stott they moved to the leadoff position he's been having a really good start to the year so they put him first trace second Schwerber third I think that's interesting I wonder how long that sticks Mets kind of a nice series

a nice job against a really good Padres team doing their thing Scherzer has a really nice start there There's something else I wanted to mention from this game Alonzo's still hot That's there's something else I forget right now Oh I'm patting myself on the back

I know you are dude you're David Robertson baby I keep telling people this dude This guy's filthy and we're getting him on one year deals And obviously you don't want Edwin Diaz out of the freaking off the roster That sucks But between him and Adam Ottivino

I guess they had like a meeting saying hey, ain't no ego is here. We're going to pitch when we pitch. High leverage situations, depending on when they come. Whoever matches up best, we're going to go do it. I think that's awesome when you have veterans buying in like that, being able to do different situations. And they're going to stay afloat because they have these guys.

You were cashing in your Robertson ticket. And I think there's a little more merit than me cashing in my Pirates ticket. It's a little early. he's been fantastic and he's got the track record. But, you know, to fully cash in that ticket and X out my face, that was, I don't know, Trep. I did X out your face. I don't know. You know, that might have been a step too far.

That was a last minute decision for me. I was like, you know, fuck this guy. Boom. Braves do your thing. That was awesome. Yeah, A. Rosario went off the last game with a homer and a double. Shaw Murphy, welcome. And then you mentioned the RCA News. you got Von Grissom waiting in the wings. I think a lot of people wanted to see him win this job to see what he could do

because he's like another one of these homegrown guys who has the talent. We're going to see it. Yeah. No, I think there might have been brave fans or I think even we were surprised that it wasn't Vaughn out the gate. But guess what?

Like baseball happens. So the 22-year-old Vaughn Grisham will get his chance to prove what he can do. Last thing, before we go to I.L. Max Muncie brought back the step back. I know he likes it against the Giants and like, you know, when you feel comfortable against a team, like sometimes results happen because of that. But there was an adjustment made. He brought back the step back, which is people don't know. It's the beginning of your load. Instead of just kind of like loading up in your hip, you physically, literally step back with your back foot. And that kind of gets your load started and just kind of gets you more grounded. You feel like you're using the ground. You hear a lot of hitters talk about using the ground. The stepback will do that. Kind of gets you loaded, preset almost.

He brought that back. Sometimes I don't know why guys get away from certain things. He did that at the end of the last season. I was at the game. I was like, what the hell? Max Muncie's doing that. That's like a Chris Taylor thing. That's a Rob VanSkoic drill, the hitting coach that he would do.

And Muncie got away from it in spring training for some reason. It started off slow. Nice back. 1.019 in 75 games versus the Giants. So he's been an MVP in about a half a season of baseball versus the Hyantes. Trev, let's burn through some I-O. Some interleague action. Houston at Pittsburgh and Houston, they take two out of three.

We'll get that get them going. Trev, my favorite little tidbit. You know, we get into the early season reaction mode. Houston, the last three seasons, has started six and seven. So if you had your Astros take lined up, ready to shoot, hey, it's early. G-Huan Bay, walk-off Homer, looking sexual. You might hear about him later.

Astros, Erkidi, in that last game, shut down. down while Yordaun and Tucker and Framber. Yep, that's their formula in the first. Cubs take two out of three from the Mariners. We already told you. They signed in half. Times are good. Plus, they win the first game, Smiley versus Castillo.

That's a fun little pitching matchup. Cubs had a 2-1 league, and then Kelnick. And then, ooh, Horner. In extras, is the Kelnick breakout happening? Nelson Velasquez hits a grand slam. happy for him, first of his career. Man, a lot of people are talking Kelnick. Talk Cubs, winning record.

And they win this series over Seattle. And then, Halo's Nats probably won't be our deep dive. I'll tell you what, Patrick Corbyn got a win. And I was happy for him. It's not as pretty, but hey, it's a win. And then the Angels take the next two. Otani Day, so he shuts them down, seven shutout. One hit, reminder.

He also hits real good. and then HALOS take the last game. Renfro, nice game there. And I think Trev, that is what happened in the interleague. So I got in my Astros fun fact there, the 6 and 7 thing. Don't ever count those guys out. I don't care what. I mean, they could be 0 and 13 right now.

I'm like, they'll be all right. Just a reminder that it's still so, so early in the season, but we want to get into that, react about our team, know this about a team. Some of these, some guys have had a bad two weeks that will have incredible seasons.

We're still there. Do you remember when we started talking about Framber Valdez because he's just had the smallest little glove and we loved it? He was pitching pretty good. We're like, dude, I love this guy Framer. Like the way he pitches, like his demeanor on the mound,

like everything about him. And almost like a Nestor-Corp, This guy's become one of the best pitchers in the league. Yes. And like right in front of our eyes and he's just like, has just done it consistently. Start after start after start. He's broke us down, bro. Yeah.

Like Framber Valdez is like an absolute bona fide ace. And it happened. I don't want to say it happened out of nowhere because it's taken, I mean, he's been doing it for a couple years now. But like I remember the first time we talked about him, just kind of messing. Like this guy's got a tiny glove. what's up? And here he is, dude. Seven innings pitched, three hits, two and runs. He did have some walks, but he's had an incredible start to the season as well. The Astros are a freaking wagon, dude. Shout out the Pirates for taking one of those games. We'll talk about it in a little

bit. And then we, I mean, dude, these two fan bases, the Cubs and the Mariners, they're all over us. The Angels fans are also all over us, too. We got to talk about that helmet in a second, but Stroman continues a really good start to the year. Nico Horner, huge walk-off hit. That was really cool to see. He had some really cool quotes about it. He said, I was just

so happy. What a special thing to experience. He's totally right, by the way. It's a very special thing to experience. He said the whole team running out towards you and in front of this crowd, it's what you play the game for, just to have a chance for moments like that. It's very true. Happy that he has the perspective that

he does. Kelnick on the other hand doing his thing hits an absolute fucking tank and he has made some adjustments and he do you remember when we talked about I was like man how come guys don't get fit for their bats and then all of a sudden

why isn't that more of a thing people are doing that I think the Mariners sent a bunch of guys to get fit for their bats and they were testing these guys they were hooking them up to all the freaking wires and they were talking about how efficient Kelanick swing is and so I don't know if like what

kind of bat they hooked him up with. But he has made some adjustments. His posture is a little bit different different this year. If you go back to last year, as he was struggling to find anything, he had so many different stances, dude. Yeah. All over the place with his stances and his setup. And sometimes that doesn't mean that much because you get to the same place. You're trying to get to a certain place. And the setup is just a, you know, a way to get there. But you see it with a ton of young guys. If you have a lot of excess movement in your setup, it's difficult to, you're to get to that spot that you want to get to consistently. So eventually you see guys tame a lot of that shit up.

Like if you come up and you're like with the bad and whatever, like eventually in the big leagues you kind of taper that down a little bit. And then when you get going and you feel comfortable, you might bring a little bit of it back. But everyone makes those adjustments where you eliminate excess movement. He's done that and he's going off, man. I mean, he's getting an opportunity this year to play. Like it wasn't that wasn't like,

a for sure thing that he was going to get a lot of opportunity to play this year. He is, and he's doing well. Trabb, I haven't followed Franchi Cordero's whole career. I know he's always been an exit Velo guy that scouts drool over, and the Yanks have tapped into it a little bit, or it's just a couple hot games, and that's baseball. His swing looks so basic that I think you'd love it. Like it looks like the easiest, just like gentle leg lift,

swing the bat through the zone. That's it. Like no funny business. And Kellnick, just a reminder, 23 years old. So as I mentioned, don't, you know, don't punt on some players. It's early for the Astros. You know, baseball. Is Danby Swanson, is Danby Swanson becoming a freaking star in Chicago?

Yes. Yes. I wasn't sure how that move was going to. I've got a Dansby rant that's for another time. It's been bizarre. I know there's some metrics that aren't great. Like his arm strength is low, and earlier in his career he didn't hit. For some reason,

there's people that don't treat him like an elite shortstop. And I don't know why. Like, I almost think it's like he's too good looking, so people want to be mad at him. But he was the best shortstop in the NL last year. Like Lindor, some of these guys that put up massive seasons. His was best.

People are worried about his defense. He won the gold glove last year. Guess what? Maybe he's going to fade at shortstop. Everyone does. What Dansby's doing right now, like, it's okay to enjoy it.

I don't know. Who have I been fighting about that? Why am I so emotional? I don't know why you're so mad. That was weird, right? I think he got talked poorly about in the off season because he was the lesser of four mega super-stop. are short stops.

They were like, oh, well, he's not Bogart's or Correa or Trey Turner, and not many fucking people are. Right. And guess what? It doesn't mean you're a bad ballplayer. On every... That's a really good ballplayer. On any given day for, I think, the next two years, he also can

be those guys. We've seen him do it in the playoffs. We've seen to it. Like, I don't know. I don't know. It's a little almost prospect fatigue with him because I think he started off slow in Atlanta, but he's been great since 2019. Anyways, Trev.

We got to talk one sec. We got killed by Angels fans saying that the reason they didn't take the samurai helmet on the road is they didn't have it for the first road tripers. That's what they were saying. And also, they were still getting it ready to travel. So they might be taking down the road. And that's all we said was if they don't take it on road, we're out. If they do take it on the road, we're in.

That's it. Here's what I'll say. You would have more relationship with clubbies and people in the org and things like that. If you're a major league baseball team and you want to bring a helmet, I think you figure it out. So that's where people were using the excuse of like they couldn't, they weren't going to figure it out this trip, but then they were. I was like, what? I don't think they had it. I don't think they had it. For the first one, I don't think so, but didn't they also follow it up with like it's not coming this time or something? I don't know.

We like the angels, dude. I love the angels. They burnt me last year. I'll never believe in them until they make the playoffs. But I like the Angels. They don't like us at all. They do. Not the Angels, Angels Twitter.

You know Nate Steele leads that big. Nate Steele's got a lot, you know, he helps us out a lot. If we didn't have Nate Steele, we'd be screwed with Angels Twitter. They have Stars. Hoppy's still hitting and that's looking like it could end up, you know, we saw the other side of that trade working out for Philly. It's starting to work out for them. And, uh, yeah, shout out Griffin Canning, man.

He long, long road back, 649 days since his last start. Uh, that's a lot of days, man. July 2nd, 2021, had a stress fracture in his lower back. Um, it's good to see him back. That's cool. Yep. hey, I won't give everyone the speech. You don't need it right now.

But Otani, Canning, Sandoval, Anderson, Detmer's, do what you want with that. Like, each of those guys has stories and a chance, and some of them, you know, Sandoval's fully broken out and Shohay's the best to ever play this game. So, like, annual fans, we get it. Just know you've heard a lot of feelings along the way. And I would love to believe.

But I'm going to have to believe in, like, August. to believe. Nate says it was not us. It was the caption posted along with it. So Kyle, figure it out. And whoever else is running the socials, don't get people mad at us. Our social media team,

if I can get dragged, that's what gets them excited. But I guess you can say the same with you. Trev, let's get into the second half of the show. You know, some series were out there, but we may be talking about them in a minute with some of our awards and player performances. and Trev, one way to perform.

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It has like this cool like, ding-ding noise. Yeah. And Teddy freaking loves it. He's always trying to swing as hard as he can. And I think that's really good for kids. Yes. Swing as hard as you can. Like your body naturally will like put you in the right spots to do that.

I actually did that in my practice yesterday. Nice. I like this a lot. Kids love it too. Trev. love your standout performer who you've alluded to a couple times now. Corbyn Burns, my guy. I like Corbin a lot, dude.

He's always been friendly to us, and he's absolutely fucking filthy. You famously picked him to win the Cy Young, and he did. So that was cool. He goes eight innings pitch, three hits, no earned runs, and probably the most impressive thing. No walks, eight K's. His last, or his first two starts, not good at all. He switched agencies.

He left my CAA. He left Ollie Linton. Hey. And went over to Boris. He had some problems with the arbitration process, with the brew crew. I think he's had a lot on his mind

to start the year. It's a contract year for him. Things were going on. First, start against Chicago, five innings pitch, four-end runs. He walked three people. Second, outing against the Mets. Four and a third.

Six earned runs. He walked two people. there. Not striking out a lot of guys. Three strikeouts a piece in those games. It doesn't seem like a Corbyn't know and love against your snakes though. A team that's hot, man, and pesky. Eight innings. Three hits, no walks, eight strikeouts. It's nice to see him kind of figure it out. We know he would. We knew he would. But an excellent performance. And the brewers who have been great to start the year and doing it and maybe different ways than they've done it before, they need the top end pitching to be the top end pitching

and have those guys, the freshmen, go off, and have some of the top of the line go off, and then it'll be the complete team that they are. This is the start of the high-end pitching going off. If he keeps it up from the past two years and hits free agency, the year after this one, he is going to put a big boy number on the scoreboard. And yeah, I know even in our brief time talking about him,

we ended up talking about like, you know, pre-arb, Arb 1 and contract stuff. And yeah, I know we talk about it and anyone that listens to our show understands it, but the business of baseball that has to be on these guys' mind while they go through it, you know, he's been in trade rumors and stuff, real or fake. But yeah, like I said, third start of the year after when year one comes out, has a couple, eh, to start the year. That third starts kind of important. Like either a red flag goes up

and you're like, whoa, is something up with our dude? He comes out, he does this against the NL West leading snakes. Yeah, they would have been swept if it wasn't for him. Hey, before we move on, Bieber, do we end the amp? Yes. Okay, I'm going to tell Rosie to get on it

because we're running a little late. I'll just tell him to start on AMP and then I'll come. Yes, I got the notification that they were, that they had scheduled the show to begin, and we lost you on there anyway, so I just ended the amp. Get the crowd warm.

Tref, well, you text Rosie. I will tell you a little bit about Ryan Mountcastle. And, you know, stand up. Who's he Mountain? You know, we like to highlight normally one game in these. We've got some Enfuego and other stuff. It's like, who had the biggest day at the office? His 9 RBI.

that's a pretty good argument. When you have two homers, you're responsible for driving in nine, which, by the way, he's now driven in 19 runs on the year. And six homers, Trev, and a reminder, if he didn't play in Camden, where that giant ridiculous move-back wall is now, he might have seven or eight.

I saw one against the Ang. He said, no doubt. Would have been on Yawke. if we were playing at Fenway. Oh. It's as big of a day at the office. The Orioles showed me something in this series. I know it's the A's.

I guess I thought the league is going to see the Orioles this year, and I thought the league was going to fight back a little bit. I've been saying that a lot. This Orioles team, with their offense, they are not out of games, and they are young and dumb enough that if they go down, they're still coming. and they proved it in this series

and they've got hitters up and down the lineup, the Adley walk off. Final reminder, Trev, Ryan Mountcastle and I connected for life because... You made out with him in college. Something very close to that. His wife and my wife

had their bachelorette in Key West the same weekend. They made out in college. That's what it was. I'll let your imagination work, but again, still a funny image of Jess. Jess or her friends walking up and be like, oh, your husband plays baseball? Mine's short and talks about it. Must have been an electric. Who's more famous?

Hey, we don't, I, you know, how do you even measure something like that? Uh-huh. So. Love you, Ryan. I got a lot of his baseball cards. I'm happy he's going off and nine RBI. Yeah. One game?

That's got to feel good, huh? A 2 RBI day feels pretty good. Nine's got to feel real good. Let me tell you what you do after a big game like that. Let's get into it, okay? You have a big fucking game like that. You go home and you taste yourself for a little bit. You're watching MLB Network.

You're tuning in a talking baseball series recap, and you just want to hear people say good things about you. And I'm okay with that because so often as a hitter, man, you're losing. When you get these big games, I can't feel it, dude. Let that permeate through the skin a little bit, get into the organs because you need it. That guy went home and just watched the highlights. I just hit nine RBI in this motherfucker. That's fun.

You still think I should be nervous about saying, I think after this season, Adley Rushman's the easy number one catcher in baseball? he's into discussion I think it's still there's some guys there like hey man don't forget about what we've done for several years

I won't I won't I just think that dude might not be right Will Smith is really good fucking legit and J.Tor Ruto's so hot

is Adley Rushman hot maybe I don't know I'm still on the fence about that yeah he's got to figure out his look he's still young guy full young guy look the hair's flowing. I think there was a bad goatee.

He's got a little Travis Snyder in him, just like a little bigger Travis Snyder? Snyder. I've seen him be funny on the internet, so he's got that going for him. I see what you're saying. Let's find out together. Those O's are going to have the most comeback wins in baseball.

A good bullpen in that offense, and young and believe, that's your formula. Treve. Hit it. Dirt Nasty's on Fuego That means I'm on fire, baby Like Waco A lot of guys had big days this week

Who were some of them That wasn't a joint I had my toast on this paper towel I am not toast right now I want to be Max Muncie is on here I think he's on here twice Or no that was standout performance

You could have picked one of two games Against the Giants But in that series Five for Nine with four homers and 11 RBI. Luis Arise, we know what he did. Seven for 12 in the series against Philly. Two doubles, a triple a homer.

Only two RBI. That is indicumint of his team not performing offensively. Hey, guys, let Luisarize drive you in. Bottom of the lineup, let's go. I think a war plane just flew over my house. What's going on with that? Are we under attack? Is it Red Dawn?

Ryan Mountcastle, you just talked about him. Five for 16, four Homer, 12 RBI. That's in four games. Bobby Wood Jr., six for 13. six for 13 a triple two ribbies four stolen bases though he had three in one game neko horner six for 13 neko horner that's a good name man uh three ribbyes four runs two stolen bases ronald laconia is lighting the world on fire seven for 12 four ribbies two walks a stolen base kellnick figuring out five for nine a double three homers three rbi three runs brent rooker that's a

mistake on the sheet dalton it's not roker it's rooker this is my guy six for twelve three homers, nine RBI. That's in four games. That was against Baltimore. Corbyn-Burn Burns already talked about him. And Zach Gallin, who is mad at us, confirmed mad at us. Yeah. He has a great start.

Sevennings pitch, three hits, zero earned runs. Only one walk, 11-Ks against a stinging Milwaukee offense. And that is who's in Fuego. Awesome. Uh-oh. Holy. Right-in-hand are Logan Webb and the San Francisco Giants, in agreement on a five-year $90 million contract extension.

It's a lot of money going in the bank at some point. We like him. I should have made more money, man. I'm happy for these guys. What a feeling that must be. That's a lot of dough. It's a lot of dough. Good for Logan Webb, man.

I want Logan Webb now to grow his hair out. Yeah. It's not give a fuck. I got 90-0. Just goes full San Fran and really leans into it. Barry Zino, but more successful on the pitch maybe. Treve, I'm skipping this whole injury section. You guys know we got hurt and there's a ton that suck.

Adam Duval, that stinks. Seeger Anderson. No, I'm going to stop saying names. I hate this segment. Jeffrey Springs. Ugh. Hate this segment. Yoshita Confordo.

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I've been opening it, cracking it here and there, get me through the subway. Trev, your first and final award of the show. My award is the, well, I was going to call it the, G-Won-Bay Yeah. Comes Hard Award. Oh. But I think I'm going to change it to

Utility players can be sexy too. Award. And it is about G-Womba. He does play for the Pirates. He is number three. And if you saw he hit the walk-off homer with a massive, massive bat flip, which I'm okay with,

especially on walk-off homers, do whatever you want, do cartwheels around. But really where this guy has been shining. He's a young dude. I'll let you talk about like the appearance in a little bit after I'm done. He's been shining defensively. We've seen a bunch of highlight plays already. The first one I saw was in Boston when he went up against the monster and stole an extra base hit away.

The cool thing about him is like I mentioned, he's a utility player. And typically utility players are gritty and they're grimy and their baseball rats. And they're like me and Jamie Carroll and we're just getting the job done. We don't necessarily look so flashy and good. do you on Bay is not that way this guy looks good wherever he's at he's been playing some center field he plays shortstop he can play second base now we always would talk about um we would always talk about O'Neill Cruz keep Ryan Hayes these are the reasons we're tuning into the pirates well Neil Cruz isn't going to be there man which sucks but we always also

always talk about when someone gets injured it creates an opportunity for somebody else so right now, Bay is going to play, dude. Whether it's going to be center field, most likely he's going to be at second base. But what they've been doing with him too is they've been starting at second base and then moving him to center field for defensive purposes. This guy's moving all around the field and making plays wherever he goes. He's making utility players sexy and I'm thankful for that because you can be. I think utility players are the most important people on the team. You can have your stars. And you know what stars do? They do what they do best. You know what utility players? You know, players do, everything else.

All the things the stars don't want to do. You know, playing different positions. That's why we talk about Bryce Harper. Like, oh, my God. Right. Shaper wants to play a different position? Bro, this is what utility players do on a day-in, day-out basis. They give you roster flexibility.

They give you lineup flexibility. Managers are probably the only people that gush about utility players. How many times have you heard a manager be like, man, I wish I had nine of those guys. I could move them around all over the place. Gwobay is doing that. And it's exciting to watch him play. And I know you have some things on his appearance.

You call him a K-pop-looking star, which I get because he is a good-looking dude. He's 23 years old. And he's just running out there like his hair is on fire. And I love it, dude. So I wanted to give some shout out to him because we don't talk about the pirates too much. And when we do, it's usually about a few different players.

This guy's kind of come out of nowhere. And now I think he's on a lot of people's radar. like, hey, I want to see another defensive gem from this guy, and we're going to see a bunch from this year. So shout out G1Bay. You get the make utility player sexy again slash G1Bey comes hard award. Trev, great award. Bad and lead off a little bit for the pirates.

And yeah, you talk about baseball is a game of opportunity, and he's going to get it with them. It's 23. He's playing all over the field. And, yeah, I posted this. the clip this morning and now, Trev, I don't want to get you a little sad, but people are in my replies. I get, when he was 17, some, some assault allegations. So I'm finding out about this live as we do this. And I know, you just found that out. I just found that out. So let's,

let's find out what that is. And it's not great. But hey, we were also wondering, like, how does a guy like this go under the radar? Um, and maybe there's, which you would let me know about that before I gave my word. It's okay. Because now. Well, Treve, I mean, this is also, let's find out what it was. He was 17 and I'm not downplaying anything, but we'll all find out together. And from there, we make our own assumptions. What he's doing on the baseball field right now is pretty crazy. And yeah, I know, talking baseball posted a, like, video gif of him. And he looks, if you told me he was like the most famous person in the world, I believe you. Like you're saying, Adley Rushman's trying to, like,

still figure out his look. Like Bay figured it out. And just crazy ironic that, I mean, the last name Bay, like a made-up thing in our culture or wherever it even came from to see that on the back of a number three Pirates jersey. But that's a whole other topic. Go Pirates Go. I'd consider selling their stock.

You just brought me down. I know because I know you hate that. But hey, we're here to tell the whole story. And I feel bad because before this, I was telling you like, God, he looks so good in that clip. Well, hopefully. I'm going to give my report now. I'm out.

Hopefully he was young and dumb and grew from whatever happened. But yeah, I hate that day. Trev, I'll save you with my award. I'm giving out the Suburbs Award. Okay. I was curious about this one. I saw on the sheet. I've, you know, for a while now, I've lived in the cities,

and, you know, we've talked about baseball and, you know, Javi Baez in Detroit playing games that don't matter. Or, you know, we talk about the big city. Who can handle it? Who can't? Sometimes things get overblown, I think, especially in small sample sizes. Andrew Heaney came over to the Yankees and played the worst baseball of his career.

Was it the big city? Was it the time? timing, was it luck, was it, what was it? What was it? I don't know. 35.2 innings, a 7-3-2 ERA, and it was outside of one game, I mean, it was tough. It was tough. The internet was not nice to Andrew Heaney. Even like, Trev, you had to talk down Luke, former intern now sales, Luke, who's like a nice guy and doesn't even, like, isn't in baseball for takes at all. He was like, Heaney, man. Like, what?

Like, how is this real life? And you were like, dude, you'd probably love Andrew Heaney. Like, he's a dude, and he's good. Andrew Heaney got whatever they were drinking in L.A. And he put together a fantastic year. Results, ERA-wise, haven't been there yet. But he sets an AL record for consecutive strikeouts. Yes.

And any time a record is broken in baseball, especially with how much we've been talking about the Maroons recently, there's been a lot of baseball played. Anytime you set a record, that's pretty crazy. So heen dogs out of the city. He moved to the suburbs a little bit. Even Arlington is kind of the suburbs of Dallas and Fort Worth. I hope the results come.

I'm rooting for him because, man, if he used the internet at all, you talked about Ryan Mountcastle using the internet after his big day at the office. If Andrew Heaney used the internet after some of his sad days at the office, yikes, because New York was tough on my guy that I hope it's clicking wherever he is

and he gets an MLB record out of it so there you go heen dog it was nasty too that was that he was just on that fastball the top of the zone and he comes from such a low arm angle

that looks even it looks even or it's harder to get on top of than a guy that comes from the top of the ball. Because you're expecting it to ride a little bit there. And the low angle arm slot guys,

you're just trained. Those guys are going to kind of like sink it and it's going to be more like horizontal. But he has that good spin that just stays up there. And guys have, I mean, they're swinging under it every single time. Yeah, I don't think even through, or didn't strike anybody out on a slider the entire first time through the lineup. Yeah.

And then he started mixing up some slide balls there the second time through. It was filthy, man. I mean, that's the, that's the potential that team. always talk about the swing and miss stuff that he has so it was cool to see man and he is a good dude he uh that texas has that kind of funky camera angle i think it's a little set a little higher and a little more behind if i'm describing it correctly but his fastball looks so badass from that angle that i like i support it for heaney days because it it moves like a blitzball you're like what um happy for you heen dog um he had a he had a tough first start with the rindy

range that like I think in two months we're going to be doing some funny butter knives put that in your rear view you guys I love you finish the show off for me Chris Rose is yelling at me I'm 17 minutes late for our other show already I think we're going to have to figure some stuff I'm gonna keep getting yelled at by Chris I love you getting yelled at by Chris Rose get out of here Trev we're going to do the same so leave some comments we love you enjoy the weekend of baseball and we'll be back here oh a little boogie we'll be back here to talk about it monday thank you everyone go baseball go trev mad chris rose i'm okay chicks ups we'll make you