Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - Cleveland is Going For It?? | 709

Episode Date: September 1, 2023

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Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball. September is here. We got kids getting called up. We've got Wild Car. A bunch of guys just ended up on other teams. Let's talk ball. A Volpe 2020. Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball.

A special Labor Day Friday. Let us be the first to wish you a happy Labor Day. Treb didn't even know it was Labor Day. Thank you to Seat Geek for putting on. this program, as always, co-talk and save yourself some money. Maybe go see some prospects your team called up. Or, you know what?

Buy a flight and head out to L.A. this weekend and watch Braves Dodgers. Because that, I'm so mad and happy I stayed up. I'm mad that I'm old, and I can't just stay up like a kid anymore. And I woke up extra groggy today because I was watching baseball, which is like, you know,

I don't want to say half, pathetic. I guess it's also tied to my career now a little bit. But it was also awesome, man. Those two teams are, if we get seven out of them, fire me up. And the man who fires me up, Trevor Plouffe, how are you? I'm doing great. I'm fired up this morning. I had some news for you. I tried to FaceTime me before the show because I just wanted to share it. something you didn't pick up. It's okay. I, too, watch the Dodgers' race game

last night. I went to the Dodger game. I've been full Dodgers as of late. Dude, we are September 1st. Like, we're here. Like, it is, it's crunch time, and we still have a bunch of great races, so baseball is

pretty dang hot in the streets. I was watching that game last night. And seeing just like how much fun everyone was and then I got reminded of like the era that I played in. Jake, when I, when I, uh, I went on this like, Homer Tare in 2012. You're everyone that's listening to the show's very well aware of that because I talk about it all the time.

Player of the Month or were you like runner up player of the month? I was player of the week. Not that year though. I should, I should have been. I was just dropping bombs. Anyways, my thing was this. And I got told to stop doing it. Ready?

I would run around. the basis. After dropping the bat nicely, hitting just absolute tank drops. I'm talking, my only thing I would do is the A-rod where I would take the bat, spinning my swing, and then I would go like this. Right. Little toss. That was it. That was it. And I was like, so as I was running around third base, I would take my batting gloves off. But not off. I would just unstrap them. I'd come around the base like this. Hmm Just you know

A little all fired up I don't even know where it came from They told me to stop doing it Can you imagine? Treb you're in the wrong generation man Your step page So high If you came up now

Your stat page would look like Hunter Renfro It'd be 30 dongs every year Man in the hot corner Bangor defense Beating talking Talking about what's in your basement Probably me and BBD No, man, I know I know we're not talking about it.

And actually, programming alert, we're not doing a Monday episode for Labor Day. We're coming back on Tuesday and we're all JM and so, hey, the episode might not release to Wednesday, but maybe there'll be some hints of, well, I already mentioned Braves Dodgers. But man, I mean, dude, Ronald homering celebrating all the way to first base. and then when he does, he comes up to third base and he slows down and does his thing. The fact that baseball has fought any of that is so dumb. There should have been little kids throughout Minnesota

copying your batting glove removal before a third base. And I think we've gotten to a better spot. But I'm sorry. I'd like to apologize to you for old baseball. Okay. I'm over it now. Look at me now. Look at this guy. Meanwhile, Freddie Freeman being as naturally unsexy as popular.

with the high pants and being as impressive to me because he's he's the best hitter I've seen meanwhile mooky bets just had one of the best months of baseball we've ever seen batting right in front of them so the the talent on display last night the real listeners know how much i love riseliglasius he comes in didn't even look like he had his best stuff but he dropped down and found like a gross two seamer when he needed it um we're not even talking about that trev we've got a bunch of other series. There are a lot of like good team, bad team series that I think we're going to go through quick. I think there's a couple bad team, bad team series.

And, you know, there's still a lot of stuff to hit along the way. We saw the Reds claim some outfielders. We saw the guard dogs come in on some pitchers. Only five games back. Let's get into it. And Trev, you know on Friday we're a National League pod. And we're a run. Rocket Money Pod.

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One question for Trev before we go into the NL. In 2014, when you got player of the week, you split the AL honors with another player. And that was... It's my teammate. Freak. Why can't I think of his name right now? Danny Santana.

It was Danny Santana. Aronado and the NL. Good slate. Danny Santana, 2020 season a couple years ago. NL and then Trev will give you the standings. We changed things. This was maybe the most fun one in the National League. The Milwaukee Brewers and the Chicago Cubs.

Cubbies in a very interesting spot. And in a more interesting spot since they took two out of three from the crew. They dropped the first one. Wade was just being Miley in that game, so was Yelly. But then the Justin Steele show. This guy, man. Cubs win 1-0 in that game. He outduals Corbyn Burns.

Boogity, boogity, boogie-boogie. Final game, Kyle drinks a little Hendrix gin. Ian Hap, double in an RBI. Belly. Infield banger of a single gets them. The three to two win. Cubby's game. a game in the Central.

Okay, Adbert Alzelaide. Yo, have a year. Yelling on the mound, I like that. This one can be quick. Dodgers sweep the diamond backs. They own them, man. It's tough. It was tough to watch.

I checked in on that last game, 7-0-0-Dodgers. I think Merrill Kelly is 0-for-11 lifetime against the Dodgers. Just any stat you can find the Dodgers dominate the snakes. I think I looked this one up and I hope I did the math wrong. I think in the past four years, the Dodgers are 46 and 15 against the diamond backs. Snakes get swept.

It's tough. Dodgers are so, so good. This was a fun one, Cincinnati. They played Trev and Gabe's Giants. Giants take two out of three. Those first two talk about pitching performances. Kyle Harrison, the young stud, 6.1-11 punches. Yo, that kid might be a dude.

Watch out for that. Speaking of dudes, backfield Alex Cobb, one hitter away from the no-no, but Spencer steers them wrong. Nine innings pitch, one hit, throwing bullets. Throw that splitter kid. Fun to watch. Reds bounce back on the last day.

And how about this little fun fact? Local kid. CES, Christian and Carnacion Strand. grew up in the Bay Area, a little four-hit day for him as the Reds try to salvage that series. God, I like watching Doval pitch. Padres Cardinals. Ew. This was supposed to be an exciting series at the beginning of the year.

Snellagram's seven innings zero earned run as he continues to pursue that potential Cy Young in the first game. But in classic Padres fashion, that's the only game they win. Wilson Contreras, two home or day in front of his parents. We love that. Tommy Edmund with the walkoff and extras. And the Padres are now 0 for 11 in extra innings this season. How many players would they have snagged if that was five and six?

Anyways, Michaelis and the boys get it done on the last day. Padre, sad, St. Louis, sad too. But Jordan Walker had a big day. Mason win the shortstop. So, hey, maybe there's some future. And GTBT, Brave sweep, the Colorado Rockies. They even call up Darius Vines. Hey, make your debut at Coors, kid.

And I think he's one of Ali's guys, Trev. He goes six-inning. one, earn, sure. Uh, well, or two, Aaron. Welcome to the show, kid. And then, yeah, you know Ronnie, you know Sean, Austin, Orlando. Michael Harris, too, jumped up in the lineup. Watch out for him. Braves are a wagon. Rockies, please trade Ryan McMahon to my yanks. And that's what happened in the National League. Good job, puppy. You got those standings, Treve? And now for the standings of the National League. In the East. Atlanta's running away with Phoenix. They have 88 wins. They're 88, 45.

Behind them, the Phillies, 74 and 59. 14 games behind. 67, 67 are the Miami Marlins, the National 62 and 73, the Met 61 and 73. They're only 27 and a half games back. It's shame. They have a chance. In the Central, Cubby's making things interesting. Milwaukee, 74 and 59. they have the lead over the club who are 71 and 62. They're three games back. Remember those two teams meet at the very end of the season in a three games set. We're going to talk and worry about that series coming up here.

Cincinnati is 69 and 66. There's six games back in the addition. Pittsburgh and St. Louis on the bottom. The Dodgers are 83 and 50. Are they going to make a run for the best record in the National League? They want, what did they go this month? In August, they went 24 and 40. I believe the number was.

Undefeated. The Giants 70 and 64, they're 13 and a half games back of the Dodgers, Arizona 69 and 65, and then the Padres and the Rockies behind them in the wild card, which is what you guys all want to hear. Right now it is the Phillies leading the way. They are four and a half games up on the pubs who are one and a half games up on the Giants who own the last wild card spot. They're 70 and 64. behind them, Arizona's one game back. Cincinnati's one and a half games back in Miami

after it's swept by the race in the two-game set. Like I said, 67 and 67, there were three games back of the wild card. We declared the Padres that they are dead. It's eight and a half back for them. Treff. Thank you for the standings. Yeah, Padres are so dead.

Same record as the Nats. Met's half game back. Let's go to, I think, the number one series that mattered. And this is going to be a little bit of a cubby episode for me. I got something fun at the end that our guy Dalton found. Brewers win that first game. I mentioned Miley, Yelly, Cubs, man. Burns and Steel.

Like, that's... Those names sound like NL. Central baseball, tone it up in a one-nothing game. How good is your good? It's really good. And then, yeah, I mentioned they win that final game. Belly, a little ricochet infield single to get it done. They pull within three games of the Brewers, month to play.

Okay. That's pretty real. And, man, I don't know. It's one of those things. Now that we're at this point of the season, if you look at the standing, real wide. Like, if I just bring up regular season standings and you get the run differentials and stuff, a lot of stuff makes sense, right? Like, pretty much everything is sord. There's not a ton of outliers right now. Like, in theory, the Padres are a little bit of an

outlier. You know, Ray's fans could probably make an argument that they could jump the Orioles, and maybe they will, their game and a half back. But everything is sort of in a place. The one thing when you do bring it up that feels like a slight outlier from run differential is the Brewers over the Cubs. I mean, the Brewers have a solid plus 21 and they're positioned well in, you know, Brewers baseball, good pitching, defense, get the big hit when you need it, blah, blah, blah. The Cubs with that plus 77 feels a little different that, I don't know, I guess in this series, what are you seeing Treve?

And where do you stand with these two teams? because they're the central race, the rest of the way, unless Sinci finds something, and they just found two outfielders, so I don't know. Yeah, I think the two teams match up well against each other, and you saw that in this series. They played some tight games. You know, there are some really good pitching matchups.

Neither team has a great offense, but they do have players that can really produce and guys that they can really carry an offense from time to time. I think they're very simple. in those ways. They both play defense. Like, they match up well. And again, we're going to see the last three games of the season, possibly determine the winner of the, you know, Central, which is awesome.

In the series, yeah, there's just some funny stuff going on, to be honest with you. Ellie homers in the first bat of the series, you get a two-o pitch, goes oppo in that first game. And then kind of hits a homer and they kind of get out to a lead. and Wade Miley, who's been pretty damn good for them all year long does his thing. I got Tyone. It's touched up a little bit with the homers, but, you know, the brew crew kind of,

again, if they score, I think the last episode I mentioned, if they score five runs or more I'd like to see their record. I really meant four runs because, you know, if you score five runs in the game, that's, you should win that game. I mean, statistically speaking, but four runs. for the Brewers. I'd like to see that record as well because I feel like

it would still be very good. And then in the second game, that two horses going at it, burn versus steel. Deal, yeah, he's the wet hair. Like, giving me kind of Lester vibes. Is that unfair?

It's like Lester and Arieta together. Ooh, too sexy. Yeah. Yeah, I think he's a little sexier than Lester. That's what I gave him the area. Oh, he gave him the, the area to boost. Yeah, I mean,

Jake, carry a nice body in that. Yeah. Works really hard at it. And that game, the only scoring was a belly RBI groundout. There was a double play in a line drive that Monasterio made. Corby Burns,

I believe it was the base is loaded. So Cubs, you know, hit a line drop in that situation, get doubled off the third. They can score more runs there. But, you know,

in a matchup, like this. You know, where runs are at a premium, Belly does his job, and they win the second game. Seven innings pitched by Burns, you get the L. Sorry. You get one run.

In that last game, the Go-Head RBI was a kind of a lucky knock for Belly, because I believe it was two outs first and third, and that ground ball,

if it gets past the pitcher, there's the shortstop, I think it was Adonnas just up the middle, ready to stop on second base. Instead, it hits off the pitcher, and now we score the go-ahead run. And, like, that's why this matchup is so good, because it's just something like that. You know, a misplaced ground ball

that hits off the pitch instead of going to where it's supposed to go, wins you the game. I really really hope to this series at the end of the year. I really hope it's like Brewers up by, a game or even two games or vice versa. I just want that last series to determine the outcome of the central because I think it would be obviously it's central place. I, if these teams played each other a hundred times,

you'd have a hard time convincing me that one of the teams would win 55 of the games. Like I think they really do line up pretty evenly. I do think the Cubs, the Cubs would have an argument to win that 100 game set that'll never happen. Justin Steele, man, I almost feel bad. And Cubs fans, like I'll give you all the love. Now the past two years, 49 starts.

A 291. And we like, I remember all J.M earlier this year, like him, gallon, maybe Kirshaw, they all had the same stats, kind of. But if we really did a true blind resume, like Steele may have had the best argument. But in baseball, we lean on what we know because a lot of guys come and go in this sport.

He's been incredible. He now leads the NL and ERA Plus and home runs allowed per 9. 15 and 3 with a 269. Legit. That's not guy stuff. That's dude stuff. excited for that matchup later in the year.

And like I said, Al-Zalay, he, God, he has been awesome for them. I think he's 23 for his last 24 save-ops. That helps too. And, yeah, I think almost any time these teams play, it's going to come down to one or two. And like you mentioned, that belly ball, that was the difference this time. So I'm just reading I'm questioning whether

Stroman was going to be back this year or not and he's throwing long toss. So we got 30 days to get him back. I don't know if that's possible kind of looking to see if they don't have a time frame on him because he has to ramp up to getting on the mound and stuff.

But that'd be something. Yeah, that's tough, man. That feels tight. Like we're doing long toss. We got a month to go. Either way, we're probably doing a three-game wild card. So I don't know. You start doing the time on that.

Be a hell of a story. The ribcage cartilage. That's not easy. You just have to let that heal. Rib cage cartilage. You just can't do anything for a ribs. You literally have to just rest and not do anything, which is brutal. Maybe just call up piece.

and win the whole damn thing? I mean, we're recording early, obviously, on September 1st. The minor league seasons are still going. So a lot of teams are like make the kids finish the minor league season before they call them up. We might get an influx of guys today. The Yankees are doing that. A bunch of teams are bringing guys up, but I guess there's only two, right? I keep forgetting that.

Yeah, right. We've done the same thing. Used to be fucking. Right. 15 guys are. a man that's got to be there's got to be some good clips we could make make some kids laugh at where there's literally a hundred people in the dugout that was the that was a problem dude like we'd bring so many people up wouldn't even be a locker space in a dugout veterans were pissed because

they have nowhere to sit credit to the race i think they are the team that fully took it too far that everyone was like no way we're playing three teams yeah um Why wouldn't you call them up? That's it. I mean, yeah. Yeah. Some teams won it too. That's the crazy part. Wouldn't use the spots.

Heck you mind. They would call everybody up. Yeah. Sharing a locker with some slap dick. Trev, Dodger snakes. I unfortunately really do think this is quick. You were twisting the knife pre-show a little bit, and the knife had already been twisted, man.

I, so Dalton. who does our stat page. Full-blown snakes fan. I know you are. Full-blown snakes fan. And I talked to him, I talked to him Wednesday morning, and he was broken.

And I was like, man, you know, I might watch some snakes Dodgers tonight. And he was just sad. And Dalton's not that guy. He's jovial, as happy as can be, almost. And then I watched and I realized, because when a team owns another team, it's a really good feeling to be on the ownership side.

You got Max Muncie standing at second base, basically doing like Randy a Rosarena stuff. Like, when you own a team like that, you just act differently. You do. And I felt bad for the baby snakes, man, because that big brother gave them the business yet again. And it's just a different town.

and to not be fully shots fired at the snakes, the Dodgers are a different talent level than basically 25 other teams. Yeah, I mean, just look at the starting pitching lines for the dimebacks. They're great. Zach Gallin, five and a third, six earnies. Yeah. Carl Kelly, five innings pitch, seven earnies. Like, this is a Dodgers lineup that,

can do a lot of different things. Yeah, they can get homers, they can steal bags, and Freddie will just have, he'll bat you to death. He will not give away a bat. He has 50 plus doubles already. He just works you.

I think that's the biggest thing that when I watch, I went to one of these games, I went to the Wednesday game, but when you watch the Dodgers, or any really good team, they just don't give away at bats. And they make pitchers work. constantly.

Like there's not, if you look at a lineup, sometimes you could say, oh man, there's some outs at the bottom. But even the guys at the bottom on the lineup will work at bats. And there's like no time

for a pitcher just to breeze through things. Especially when they're running the way they're running right now. Like they just, it's kind of a relentless feeling. So I agree. I think the talent level is a little bit different here. I went to the game on Wednesday.

I don't think we have to, talk about a lot of the stuff. I mean, Dodgers bang the ball. The Diamondback scored five runs in big games. I'm not going to get it done against the doors. I went to Al Salvadoran night, which was awesome. Wow. So that was that was Wednesday night. A lot of fun. Showed up pregame. Wanted to meet up a long ago. Got to say hi, got to pick with Longgo. Saw that. They're chat a little bit. He's the best. That was right after I DM'd you his IG story because it was so, so, so. So why you love Longo? Like Longo just randomly on his IG story was just like,

you got a couple good friends and good family. Life's pretty fucking good. It's like, okay, dude, you're a Hall of Famer. I think he is a Hall of Famer too. I know. We're looking at his numbers. He's got 60-something career war already. I mean, I think he's got over, like, 280-something homers,

or maybe even 300 homers. I don't know what it is. It's a lot. It's good. Anyway, it's got to see him. Tommy Fan was just like right in front of me. Like I didn't like go out of my way to say hi to Tommy Fam. I just like walked.

I had my media pass. I walk, you know, towards their dugout. And here he is just right there. It looks at me. I'm like, I got to say hi. He's like making contact with somebody, especially like here. Should say, I say, hey, Tommy, how you doing? And I think I said, you know, Trevor Plouf.

Yeah. I'm in street close. Bro. I'm a street close. I'm a civilian. He's just like dead face. hey what's up man and like he had no idea no idea but I did

look him right in the freaking eye good which is more than you would have done oh yeah hey Tommy fam I do some baseball content 342 homers thank you Bieber for long dude this guy's a hallbyn I'm sorry I'm sorry

go look at his baseball reference uh pay people and if you think differently um what else are going to say about this game I had something that I had something that I want oh has nothing to do with the game but my friends who I went to game with we play this poker tournament

in the off season and it's like a bunch of old time baseball players and the guys that play poker tournament you wear your jersey and then if the people knock you out of the tournament you have to take the jersey off your back um

so my buddy Chan Park was there So Chanho Park jersey on he wore it to the Dodger game. He got Bobby Miller to sign his Chanho Park jersey. It's got to be one of one. Channel Park signed a little message to Paul. And then he gets Bobby Miller to sign it as well. So I just thought that was, that's got to be the most hilarious jersey autograph combination ever.

Chano Park and Bobby Freakermanel. Who, by the, probably have a lot more in common. I give credit to it. The, uh, The, uh, Dano Parks a dog. The last Dodgers ace to the next Dodgers ace, uh, you know. All right.

We, we, we just, uh, we just kind of fixed Trev's mic a little bit. Uh, you might have heard it fast forward in a little bit. I think we're good now, uh, extra crispy. And I think it's time to talk some, some Giants Reds, Trev, because, uh, two very impressive pitching performances in San Francisco, watched, I guess the biggest perk of my yank sucking is I'm looking to watch good baseball everywhere. And so I got to watch Alex Cobb. His two-seamer and splitter, how they play off each other is awesome.

I unfortunately didn't get to watch Young Stud Kyle Harrison and his 6.1 and 11Ks. But Giants get two out of three in San Francisco. I always love watching DeVall throw it. And I guess the bigger story on the red side is they're the team. team that steps, or one of the two teams that steps up in this weird second free agency, they add Bader and Renfro to their outfield depth chart. Good on you, Sincy. I doubted you. Now the next step is to win some games, but what do you have on either of those? I mean, you mentioned the first two games were Kyle Harrison and Alex Cobb. I mean,

they were Kyle Harrison making a second start. He's in his home ballpark. and grew up 30 minutes away so he had all his family there and he was just nasty dude like this is exactly what the Giants needed at this point in the season this guy's this guy's legit like sometimes when I look at players

you can kind of just tell like this guy is a big leaguer and it's going to be at worst serviceable in the big leagues and at best this guy could be an all star like he has the stuff like he's got that like I watch

He's watched some throw and he's got electric stuff. He's throwing 95, 96 from the left side, and he's striking guys out. I think he struck out 11 people in this game. He's also got a little timing mechanism that can mess with your timing with the leg lift. I saw him do it a couple different times. I don't know if it's intentional or if it's just like he just kind of does it sometimes. But it looks like you can skip a beat a little bit sometimes at the plate

and get your timing messed up against them. That's not good for a hitter, especially when the guy has stuff like that. So, I mean, yeah, the first two games, like Kyle Harrison, again, they needed that in the worst way. Now you got your guys, Webb, Cobb, Harrison, Junis has been pretty good for them. So now you, oh, hey, we got four starters and we can figure some things out going forward. And I think they're in a really good spot going forward.

in the second game Cobb yeah shoot what can you say takes a freaking no-no all the way into the night with two outs and the only base runner before that was a Casey Schmidt

throwing air so I thought there might be some walks I was actually at my fantasy football draft and Chris Rose was with me and we ended up watching the last inning on his phone and then yeah

it just it sucks anytime you give up a no hitter late in the game but with two outs in the ninth It like Yeah That really hurts a little bit A lot of people are saying Luis Mato Should have dove for that ball

Into right center But I don't know man At that He had to take a perfect route And Ball was hit pretty good And everything You know like I do

I do want to see a dive I think Everyone does If you play outfield Sometimes your body's not in the fucking position To dive That's what I have on that play right there But anyways I mean

Alex Cobb with an incredible, incredible performance. And I wasn't sure that Gabe was going to let him go because I believe he had like 97 pitches after the seventh inning. And then he had a quick eighth. And then the ninth one pitch won out. And I was, okay, this is it. He's going to get it done. He didn't, but it's okay.

It's tough. We all turn into the sports fan suckers in that moment. Yeah, it would have been awesome to see Matos go lawn sale and dive full out and his glove and hat go flying. But like, I don't know. I don't know if he was getting to that ball. Like, that was caught pretty good. Really good performances all around there.

And the Reds, they drop a series. I don't know, you're on the road to San Francisco, sure. They take headlines for other reasons. They add Renfro and Bader. And I'm giving them a little credit. The Guardians ended up being the wildcard team we thought they might be and snagged all the pitching they could. And I don't know, half credit to them.

I guess you get some essentially free pitching to get you there. Five games back. Trust me, I know. It's not going to happen, but it's annoying that the twins can't put the division away. But go on. Cincinnati, I think outside of this series is more so the story. Renfro should slot in to be a starting corner outfielder for them.

And Bader, platoon versus lefty, defensive replacement. I assume that'll be his role. the breast of the way. And in those two rolls, he's really good. So I guess good on the reds there. I thought I saw something Lodolo is out now. If it won't pitch again this season. Him and Hunter Green before the year, we had marked them as like, hey, this could be the surprise one-two punch in the big leagues, bro. What we saw them do at the end of last year, it hasn't really done that or hasn't really played out that way, excuse me. Although Hunter had a nice game here against the Giants, five and a third, one run, but it wasn't earned.

And actually, the first pitch that he threw, T.J. Fredel, is a Friedel or Fredel? I think Friedel? Yeah, Friedel made this incredible diving catch. First pitch. Friedel's a dog, dude. Friedel's a dog. If he doesn't get to that ball, I think it rolls into that, like, triples corner out there, and I think it might have been inside the park home run. But instead, it's an out and Hunter Green does it. There's another

really good play I had marked down. Oh yeah, there was a double steel that the Reds had, first and third. I don't know if it was Estrada or De Jong just pulled the throw. Could have had him out at home and that was the first run and it's all that's

Hunter needed. Trev final two are Padres Cardinals, Braves, Rockies, bad team, bad team, good team, bad team. I kind of hit my stuff on the way through. I'm good on them, dude. I actually, I think a lot of people in the industry watch our show

because I watched Mark DeRosa talk about them being dead and all these things about the Padres. So shout out everyone watching our show. If you smushed you and me together, I think it turns out kind of like Mark DeRosa. I like Mark DeRosa. I'm not trying to throw shade at him at all. I think he's actually really,

You've got the size. I've kind of got the baby face Italian thing going on. He's got some pipes on him. I just noticed that today. It's big. I definitely had a moment. I saw him on TV the other day and I was like, whoa. Like, there's some people watching this show are liking Mark DeRosa.

When I found out he was an Ivy Lager, kind of like me, I, my respect went through the roof. All right? It doesn't seem like an Ivy Liger, right? Let's do the American. League. It's brought to you by Manscaped. Today's show is brought to you by Manscaped. I want to tell, I bet Mark takes care of it down there. Of course he does. And he takes care of it up there. He's an Ivy Lager. And Manscaped, the leaders in below the waist grooming changed the game with their beard hedger pro kit. And now they're going to step further with their brand new handyman,

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month as they take down the Detroit Tigers. 4-1-4-2-6-2. That third game was a cold game. Didn't have his best start. Still goes 6 and 2. Sevy has a nice start. Claver Torres is actually hitting in hot. Anthony Volpe tries to save the last game at the buzzer three-run Homer to tie it. Ah, Yankees literally throw it away in extras as Tigers get that final game.

These two teams don't do much for me, although the Yanks are calling up a ton of kids, and that's honestly exciting. It doesn't happen a lot in Yankee land, so that's fun. This had some implications. The Astros swept the Red Sox in the Commonwealth. 13 to 5, Jose Altuva cycles. Yordaun has a four-hit day. The next day, Bregi, he goes over the monster, a familiar,

feeling a third baseman going over the monster? I know a guy like that. And then they bring out the broomsticks. Michael Brantley. Hello, old friend. He's back for Houston. What does that mean? Houston sweeps Boston.

Boston, this is one of the teams they're chasing in the wild card technically. That's tough, making the mountain a little bigger to climb. Guardians take two out of three from the twins. Twins won that first game. My Ada gets knocked around, but doesn't matter because Royce Lewis, there's your righty pop. But then they lose the next two. Are they tanking to get in the Gialito sweepstakes that never happened? Instead, Cleveland takes it?

Was it a blocking move by Cleveland? I'll tell you what. Cole Calhoun, he is just raking. He has another home run. the final game. Bo Nailer, Jose Ramirez, and Stephen Kwan in the second. Guardians take two out of three. You might have heard they're five games back by now. Orioles take two out of three from the White Sox. Orioles put up nine spots in those first two while shutting them out in the first game. Anthony Santander, he can't stop. He can't stop right now. Two hits in each of these games,

couple RBI, four RBI in the second. White Sox, they salvaged the last one. That Andrew Vaughan is one fine piece of ace. Eloy. Four hits. Lubbop, 35th homer on the year. White Sox promote from within because why won't you? Mariners take two out of three from the athletics.

Good team, bad team. Although a little bit of a knee buckler in the final one, Mariners are down. J.P. Cross. Crawford, two RBI single to take the lead. Julio got banged up. I think Thai France got banged up. We hate that.

They still take care of their bidness. A lot of those mariner stats are really impressive. And Trevor May with the save, and he got a save 16 years ago in the same stadium or some shit like that. And we just like Trevor May. That's what happened in American League baseball. T2 gets the save. What were you saying about, uh,

I don't know. I'm going to do the standings now if that's okay with you. In the American League, in the AL East, Baltimore. Still on top of the division, 83 and 50. Tampa Bay right behind them. One and a half game is back. They're 82 and 52. The Blue Jays, the BJs, 73 and 61.

Boston, after a sweep at the hands of the Astros, 69 and 65. reverse that, flip it, 65 and 69 for those bottom dwelling Yankees. There we go. In the settler. Gross. In the central. My twins never would be there. Never would be on the bottom.

They're on top of the division, 69 and 65. Cleveland, like you mentioned, five games back at 64 and 70. Go away, Cleveland. 60 and 74 for the Tigers. We're actually going to hear a little bit more about them later in this show. White Sox Royals. In the West, we got two teams tied at the top of the division. Seattle, 76 and 57, Houston, 77, 58.

They're tied. Texas, one game behind them at 7558 Angels, Oakland, Gross. That division is going to be something. In the wild card, Tampa Bay has the first wild card. There's six and a half games up on. Texas. What am I reading wrong here? Oh yeah. And then it's one of Houston or Seattle is in the second spot as well.

So technically there's only two wildcard teams now because there's two teams tied at the top of the AL West. Tampa Bay has that first one kind of locked up. Then it's going to be Seattle or Houston and then Texas. On the outside looking in for the wild car, there's two teams in the AL. Toronto is two and a half games back of a playoff spot. It's their only chance of the playoffs. I mean, add them into the mix of teams that what? Padres, Cardinals, Blue Jays, let's go.

And then the Red Sox, six and a half games back, their season might have ended at the hands of the Astros. And guess what? He ain't the first team. The Astros have ended their season. And that's the standings in the American League. Beauty, Trev. Yeah, that L4 for Boston is at a bad time.

They get a little Kansas City, so maybe they can quick flip that. But, man, Tampa, Houston, Texas is wildcar teams right now. And you're right, Trev, at the end of this year, unless Toronto kicks in to a new gear, that mighty AL East, might have to talk a little bit about that mighty AL West, man. It's the AO Beast. Okay.

Oh, my gosh, you guys were so annoying with that. Speaking of the hot Yankees, Do you want anything here? Like, I got to be honest. If I do it for other teams, these are two not good teams. Yeah. I'm going to be talking about a specific tiger later on in the series. I don't really have anything.

Shout out Clark Schmidt, who continues to wear our Harrison Bader T-shirt as he leaves the organization. Tough. Might need to make a new Harrison Bader T-shirt. I think we are. We have a Clark Schmidt. I think we're working on it. We might need to make a new one.

Zach Short. Hot. He had a Homer off of Clark Schmidt. So shout out to him. I had some other stuff. Volpe, awesome, 2020 club. That's really cool. Yeah.

I mean, I don't care what your other numbers are. 20 homers, 20 stolen bases, legit. It's hard to do. It's legit. How's the defense been? It's been solid. He had a really good August. OPS in the mid-eighths.

Like he kind of needed that. And the Yankees are calling up other kids. The Martian is in Houston. against Verlander tonight. Yankee fans are excited to watch some kids play in September, but that's about it. I mean, Jason Dominguez coming up. I know there's some other guys,

you mentioned Austin Wells, whatever, but Jason Dominguez, we've heard about him for so long. There's so much, there was so much hype. I feel like some of that has calmed a little bit. I don't think by anything that he's done. I'm curious, I can't wait to see him. Yeah. In a real Yankees uniform, those big old tree trunks.

Yeah. Kind of a short, thick king. I don't know. It's going to be a funky September in the Bronx. One more thing. One more thing for the Tigers. I wanted to mention Torkelson in a little mini slump. Ever he was feeling it?

Yeah. Hitting those homers, pimping everything. I was really hoping he'd just like kind of ride off into the off season on that stretch. Since August 22nd, he's been in a pretty bad stuff. I think he's hitting 096 since then. but this is like if I'm a Tigers fan I watch now okay we've had two series of bad swings from Torkelson

what how fast can you get out of it how fast can you get back to knocking the ball around that's going to tell you about a player and can he be a consistent threat the overall numbers for Torkelson this year 102 OPS plus 750ish OPS they're getting

okay, that's not, he needs to be better than that, especially for like, you know, what he brings defensively. So if I'm a Tigers fan, watch that. Can he make an adjustment and finish the year strong? He pimped one off Cole that next time you need a little extra testosterone. I know you like the way he does that. Yeah, I mean, he obliterated it and he... In the middle of us, in the midst of a slump. I'd avoid, okay. Trev, I think the AL series that meant the most, Astros Red Sox, you know, the Red Sox, if this is reversed and the Red Sox swept, I think they'd be a half game out of the playoffs, and we'd be talking to Cora, that dirty water, and this team bangs. Astros give him the business a little bit. I'm going to be talking about that Altova guy coming up. Your Don, 4-4.

man, I couldn't believe Michael Brantley back in the game He's back. Yeah, the first game Chris Sale actually did pretty well against their lineup. What's his, yeah, he goes four, two-thirds, three-er-in-runs.

This is a very tough lineup. I thought he looked okay. Then the Stroes piled it on after the fifth. You're going to talk about Al-Tuvae, even Jose Abraeu got in on the fun, which, like, I know I said this a lot, the season. If he gets it going, look out.

I don't know if he's going to get it going. It's talented baseball players. Go back to those 21 Braves. Like Jorge Soler was awful with Kansas City. He came to the Braves. He got some juice. If Jose Brayu gets a hit in his first postseason at bat, like he could win CS MVP. Like that's who he is. I think he's kind of splitting time with Singleton now.

Is that what's going on? Sure. I'm not sure, actually. I don't know Singleton's playing the field. I have to look that up. One thing from the first game that I think, think is of note is this is the second time now that Arkiti's come out of the bullpen and I think they're trying to figure out they have six starters they're trying to figure out what they're going to do as they maybe go back to a five-man rotation he could be the long

guy with or piggyback with Javier I don't know what they're going to do but he came out of the bullpen that game um game two a little bit closer but reggie and yordawn back-to-back homers just to get the day start Let me tell you something about back-to-back homers. They're demoralizing. They make a team, you feel like you're a little bit beat when you give a back-to-back homers. Like, dang, bro.

Like, can you figure it out? That's the 13th time that they've done that this year, the Astros. One behind, can you name the team that's done it the most? Braves. I was to say, it's pretty obvious. 14 times the Braves have done it. And then game three, I know Cutter Crawford's line doesn't look great.

Two and two-thirds innings, and he's going up against Framber, who retired the first ten batters, I think he faced. A lot of soft contact, though, against Cutter Crawford in that one. So it kind of stinks, but that's the Astros, putting the ball and play, doing their thing. You mentioned Brantley. He comes back in this game and does this thing.

But yeah, this was a clinic put on by the Astros. I mean, they played small ball. hit homers like they can just Ryan Presley I think after Rosie Rosie mentioned this to me when we were covering that the other day he said Presley was in it like just feeling it after the game saying like we're here like this is who we are like we expect to be

in the world series essentially yeah it's almost like Texas never woke them up but like the Mariners getting hot like gave them a little like okay like let's do this thing they're 8-0 and 2 in their last 10 road series. I think your guy Presley, I think he's got like the top 50 curveball spin rate pitches this year.

Just over the top bangers from him. That stat was totally wrong. But gets the point across. And hey, Red Sox fans, you might, I think you guys might end up in the mud with us. Yankees fans again. They do call up Sadan Rafael, a big outfield prospect for them,

and he puts together a couple of bees. So if this is the end or, hey, maybe they got some fight left. You know, if you want to believe in the Red Sox making the playoffs, it's got to be above Toronto and an AL-West team, which is a tough prop. I don't know. That kid seems like part of the plan. I think he's a short king too, so interested in that.

I think we love our short kings. here. Preach. Trev. If you just look at the next series. You walk me through it, Pop. Guardians take 203 from the Twins. I mean, the first game,

great. Royce Lewis saves the day. He's, hits his second grand slam in his many days. I was going to do an award on these twins rookies that have come up because it's, I know I'm a twins guy. high in me. People forget

96 career home runs at Target field. No big deal. I think I'm either first or second, all time, whatever. It's not that big of a deal, people. I'm not going to give them the award. Do they have a different one that I'm going to give out? But look, when the twins'

offense can hit with runners in scoring position, they're a pretty good team. When they don't hit with runners and scoring position, they're not a good team. I feel like you can say that about a lot of teams. And I put that in my analytics binder? Jake Ulytics right there Hit with runners in scoring position Man I just saw

Billy Ripkin say some stuff that was so out of pocket on I come out here in the mornings and I turn on MLB Network because they're going through I don't know what the show is called but it's like Mark DeRosa Lauren Shahadi and they go over some of the series

shout out Mark DeRosa a lot of Mark DeRosa talk on it's well I think me and me you and Mark we make a night out of it we could slam some we would go out New York, slam some beers.

He'd take us to some fucking place you got to like knock on the door and leave a bile of blood. Oh, you think he knows the spots. Yeah, he knows the spots. I think so too. He was talking about, because we're talking about analytics here. They're talking about the Yankees and how they're going to change up,

how they approach analytics. And, God, some of the stuff he was saying was so funny. He doesn't want any minor league coaches. I want less coaches. I'm like, I don't think.

That's the answer, Billy. Let the kids run. Yeah, they're like, look at the Dodgers. They have a coach for like every three players and they have the best development in all the baseball. Anyways, uh, this series, look, this is, the twins need, they needed to win this series. They needed to shut the freaking door on the division.

They're still up five games with 26, seven games to play. The division is very much still theirs, although they do play the guardians again. starting on Monday, I will be doing the game. So that's going to be another interesting. Like if the, if the freaking Guardians sweep that series, we're talking about a two-game lead.

And then it's all hell could break loose. So this is like, they, the twins need to close the division out. They're a better team. And the Guardians essentially punted on the season. Now they pick up these guys. And I don't think it was even because they think they can win the division.

or they really even, I mean, they do want to win the division. I'm not obviously saying they just don't want to, but they're not actively trying. They pick up these guys because they need pitching. They need people to eat the innings. And they're like, let's just get, we'll get these guys. And hey, guess what? If we go in a run, maybe we'll sneak in and win the freaking division. And I will be, oh my gosh, dude.

I'll be beside myself if it happens. And now I'm not saying I'm rooting for it, but it would be chaos. A team that punts at the trade deadline, gives the twins the division and then they still win the division. It would be insane. A massive homestand coming up for Cleveland. They welcome Tampa for three.

Survive if you take two somehow. Then they play Minnesota at home for three. Treve. The twins are playing the Rangers this weekend. Trevor! I'm telling you, bro. Don't tell me, I'm telling you. She.

Bowe Nailer. Keep hitting Homer's big fella. Cole Calhoun. You didn't know. We've alluded to it a couple times. Gioledo went to Cleveland. He'll be pitching Sunday, it looks like, against Tampa. And they also claimed Reinaldo Lopez and Matt Moore. So, like, I don't, dude, if the Guardians get within three games, Trev,

I'm very scared for the twins. It could happen this weekend. I know. with a month to play Tito Francona? I'm not like the twins Chris Rose They're a better team than the guardians

They just are Okay but You got to play the game You got to win the games And I mentioned a lot of the offense It's coming from rookies I think these guys are very special I think they could do a lot of good things

But you never know If Royce Lewis Eddie Julian and Matt Wallner go cold boy I don't that's bad so this you know you gotta give credit where credits do I mean

that last game twins had it won it's two to one they got Duran on the mound two to count two outs and he freaking just zoos a curve ball throws it behind the batter

behind the left end a batter zoos a curveball they tie the game Colahoon comes in hits a three run bomb in extras bam game over like that's tough but again credit where credit is do guardians staying in it they don't they want me to be wrong so badly i uh i don't know what's going to happen i cannot wait for the next

guardians twin series and i can't believe i'm saying that sentence i love team strengths cleveland might have just stumbled in the pig shit let me just name you guys in their bullpen class a stephan Hensches has been incredible. De Los Santos is dudeish. Karen Chack comes and goes. Sandlin's been there. Eli Morgan's been there.

Rinaldo Lopez and Matt Moore. That's nine pen guys, dude. If they start finding a formula where Cleveland's up in games after five innings, Jose Ramirez goes on a heater. All they need to score. This team needs to score, you know, yeah, three or four runs.

It's the same. Swole Calhoun becoming a... I don't want to tell. I can't. Cleveland legend. Trev, the final two. Again, same situation. If you want something, I'll let you have it.

Orioles take two or three from the White Sox. Seattle takes two or three from Oakland. You're going to hear about one of the Orioles pitchers coming up. I think that we can kind of breeze through these as, yes, good team take series from bad team Baltimore holding on to that division lead they're doing everything possible the rays are just kind of breathing down their neck

Seattle's going off they're playing very well they're wearing Adidas jump suits getting Rev run to shout them out as they have the Adidas track suits on so they're having fun they got Scott service in the freaking track suit which is That picture of Scott's service.

He probably knows more run DMC than any of the guys in the clubhouse. It's a great point, Trev. That's a great point. Baby, do you think you can find the Scott's Service pick? No. Oh, you haven't seen it? Oh, it's great. If we could get it on the screen, it's screenworthy.

Yeah, I'm trying to find a just still image of it real quick. I think I have it. It's screenworthy. Let's, um, I'll, I'll, oh. I mean, if that doesn't do something for you, and something, I'm going to get hot. Like, we're trying to keep the series tight. I'm going to get hot for a second.

Dude, that matters. That matters. Scott Service being that dude in front of all those kids. That matters. Alex Cobb. I'll taste your guy Gabe real quick. because Gabe is a interesting guy. After the Alex Cobb, almost no hitter,

fucking everyone on the team on the field hugged Alex Cobb. When they were doing handshake lines, not just a Dap, good game. They gave him a hug, man. Stuff like that matters in life, in sports, and everything. And, um, I don't know. I believe in that. It's the one thing managers can control.

how do you manage your personalities? What kind of vibe do you help create in your clubhouse? Scott Service understands that you don't got to do this stuff all the time, but you got to have, you got to break up the monotony a little bit. You got to have a little bit of fun through 162. And a lot of teams do stuff like this. The Phillies were wearing overalls, which was awesome.

Topper creates a really good vibe in there. They have a great clubhouse. I mean, I still, I believe in my Phillies pick to win the World Series. I really do. Problem is the Dodgers and Braves exist. Baseball happens, man. Let's talk about them a little bit because they kick off the IL. Shout out Lawrence Butler.

My gosh. Sure. Some bombs. Shout out. Interleague. Those Phillies. Trev just mentioned took two out of three from the halos. a weird week for the Angels.

Your last Gialito start. Trey Turner has gone completely bonkers, and we love that for Trey Turner. The final game that the halos end up winning, one of the best back-and-forth games this year. Harper gets home run 300 to take the lead. Trey Turner hits a three-run bomb to take the lead. And these halos that are swimming through the waiver wire,

they answer every time, and they win it 10 to 8. Quite the scene. Brandon Drury and Fuego. Castellanos with another awesome post game. He's just the man. Nolan Shenuel. Shenanual.

He's still hitting in a rookie. Rangers. Take two out of three from the New York Mets. They win the first two, a pair of one-run games. Mitch Garver be hitting. Corey Seeger be hitting. In that final, game, it's the beauty of baseball. The DJ Stewart Show. Two homers for T.J. Stewart.

An amazing catch in the outfield and the walk-off RBI hit by pitch. I mean, what a script. You couldn't write it if you wanted to. A fun day for the Mets when they haven't had as many fun days recently. Blue Jays, they win two out of three against the nationals, which I won't good team bad team you here. The Nationals have been playing a good brand of baseball. The Blue Jays get it done after splitting the first two Danny Chanson with a big day. That kid Davis Schneider continues to hit. Carter Keyboom. How's your prospect resurgence? Good for him. My signing of the offseason, Chris Bassett, eight-inning shut on the last day to win the series. That's what he can do, and that's what he's been doing.

Pirates sweep Kansas City, and in Kansas City, I, it's tough. Johan Aviato, Oviato, nine innings, complete game shutout. Key Brian Hayes, your guy has been going, Trev, so we love that for Pittsburgh. A couple big days at the office. Brian Reynolds has one, too. It does a little gritty in the dugout,

but it almost wasn't. It was almost the answer. anti-gritty. And then the final IL series, it's two games, it's the Florida Bowl, it's Rays and Marlins, rays blow them out in that first

game. They go zero-zero into extras. Eflin Lazzardo and the Rays put up a three spot and the fish don't. I think they dropped under 500, 66 and 67

after that second game. tough times in South Bish and they pass on all the free players and that is what happened in the IL Trev I think this can be high and tight a lot of bad team bad team a lot of good team bad team

your Phillies are here I'll let you cook for a little bit I'm almost good in the IL yeah that's what we talked about before the show that we kind of can skip over this as we do towards this part of the season. I will say I don't think the Marlins skipped over the pitchers. I think the Guardians took all those guys.

They did skip over the outfielders, but. Philly's doing their thing. I thought there was some really insightful stuff off the field here. Castellanos talking about what an ovation can do for people, again, with the Trey Turner thing. He's been going off since that. he Cassianus is like becoming like this like elder statesman

of the big leagues and like kind of like always says the right things and he's very well respected I just love I love this clubhouse dude I think they're so tight knit and like so good and they have like Harper leading the way superstar puts the work in plays harder than anybody in the big leagues Trey Turner superstar works his ass off

good guy JT Rumuuto sex symbol to the max. Everything they have in there is a bunch of dudes who are just good guys working to a common goal. I think if you were to ask me who I think has the best clubhouse chemistry in all of the big leagues,

I think it's the Phillips. Castiano, I've fallen in love with Garrett Cole in the past year and a half or so because he gives these funny press conferences, but he's so calculated. He's like one of the most calculated humans on the planet. Like he's in it. Castellanos

feels like there's zero calculation, but he's so confident in what he believes in that every time he speaks, it's incredible. His quote about Trey Turner is going to be in Philly for 11 years, and he's going to be retired having a beer with his son watching Trey Turner the Philly. That was like such a fucking baller quote.

And he like, you could tell he hadn't really thought about it. It was just like, do you guys, do you guys know what's happening here? Trey Turner's one of the best players in the world. He's going to be here for over a decade, and I'll be retired drinking beers with my son watching him play. That's pretty cool. Yeah, no, I think that matters, you know, over a long season.

And like I said, like they're just, they seem like they're having a lot of fun right now. And it shows on the field as they take two or three, mentioned that last game was back and forth. Shout out Drury. I think he's got close to a hundred homers. Hey, you're getting close to the club, big fella. The rest of this stuff, I don't know. What do we got to talk about here?

I think we can kind of go on to the second half of the show. Right? Keep going, Toronto, do your thing. Rangers, please stumble this weekend. Yeah, you can't. Against my twins. You can't make everyone happy. Rangers, you took care of your business.

Toronto, you took care of your business. Toronto, you took care of your business. Oh, hold on. I didn't see this. Angels, let me stomp on your grave a little bit. No. 8 and 19 in August. It's the worst run differential

of any month in club history at minus 74. Holy shit. That was the interleague and that brings us to standout performances. Standout performances are brought to you, buy the Johnboy Media Shop.

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We added some new stuff. 30% off ends 9-4. So that's three days from now. Well, Labor Day sale, get in the mix. Trev, who's your standout? I cheated a little bit on this because I had one, then I wanted to give two. I am going with, well, first I'll start up with my guy,

Blake Snell, who went seven-nings pitch, two hits, no Ernie's, nine Ks. We didn't really talk about this series because believe it or not, San Diego Padres and St. Louis Cardinals are bad team, bad team. I just, I can't wrap my head around it. He has been incredible.

There's a bunch of stuff here for him. I had it up. Where is it, man? Oh, a lot of Blake's Nell stuff. Oh, here it is. He's thrown five or more innings in his 19th straight start. He lowered his Major League ERA, Major League best ERA to 26, which would be the lowest mark by a starter in a full 162 since Jake P.

V's 254 in 2007. Blake Snell has absolutely been crushing it. And I believe is he not a free agent? He is. What's this guy going to make? Love that. If I'm his agent, I say start it with the two where we're not talking. Oh my gosh.

Good for him. And the second one that I'm going to give out, because this was my first one was Grayson Rodriguez, who's been really, really good as of late. He goes six things pitch. No one runs. He gets the 6Ks. Baltimore needs this dude. If they want to continue to stay on top of the ALEs, Gracer Rodriguez has to be what Grayson Rodriguez has been

since he got called back up. He got sent down. He's been really good. It has to continue to be really good. And I think he will be. I think he looks like he's turned the corner a little bit here. The arm talent's sick. His pitch mix is really fun. He can make the ball move

kind of any direction. And his last seven starts, a two, three, two. He's turned his season around, and again, like, they need him to be that guy. Looks like the light bulb's gone off. Couple throwers. I love it. Trev. There is a ton of options.

I just want to say his name again because he again had one of the best months we've seen. Mookie Betts, like could have been a standout every episode this month, so I want to make sure he gets proper love. And he He does. And I'm going to go with another old dog.

Another short king who's been at it a while. Jose Al Tuve throws a cycle out there. I've always been a little bit of a sucker for a cycle. He gets it on the home run. So I think that makes it a little more sick. And as we start doing this morning, as I'm watching Braves Dodgers last night and looking at high-level baseball,

there's going to be a time when we're sitting down, and it's October, and it's crisp out, and high-level baseball, and Jose Al-Tuva. They go hand-in-hand, man. That the Houston Astros, like you said, they're always going to have a confident walk. I cannot wait until it's postseason, and every pitch matters, and every bat matters,

and those good teams you're talking about who don't give anything away. Uh, we are going to see Jose L Tuve setting the tone for the Houston Astros again as they pursue another World Series and another ALCS and everything they do. So, uh, seeing him casually throw up another cycle, four RBI, four runs. Uh, the dude's a sick puppy, man. He is a sick puppy. Uh, first cycle of his career, I thought that was interesting.

Bregman was asked after the game. about it. He's like, I can't believe that it was his first cycle of his career. Seems like he does it all the time. He's special, man. He really is. The guy, not that this matters. The guy's probably 5554

and 160 pounds. It doesn't matter. Not in baseball. That's why it's such a beautiful sport. 48.6 career war. Higher batting average, higher OPS than his career this season. So, crazy. Trev, there is a lot of players

that could have been on this list, but they might be on the next list. Dirt Nasty's on Fuego. That means I'm on fire, baby. Like Waco. All right for the series. We just talked about this guy. Trey Turner.

Philly Shorts up. He went six for 12 with four homer. in the series. He has a hit in 19 straight home games. He loves Philly. He loves it there. Shout out to the fans that made it happen. Labor Torres of your Yankees.

He went six or 14. Two doubles, three homers, four ribbies. Hit the longest home run of his career on Tuesday. One four, 54. Bomb. Bomb. That's like Jake Storelli Blitzball homer right there. Jason Hayward of the Dodgers.

Remember how he was struggling? offensively over the last, I don't know, four or five years, and then he comes to the Dodgers and just hits the crap out of the ball. He went six for ten with a double, two homers, six ribbies for a one-nin in that series for the week of August 25th through

August 31st. Look at this squad. How about your guy? Toronto's second baseman Davis Schneider. Nine for 17, three doubles, three homers, eight ribbies. Schneider has the highest OPS in A.L. History through 14 career games.

That cannot be a right step. Bro, he's going nuts and they're moving them around too. He's played left field, second base, third base. Didn't Rees Hoskins hit like 50 homers in his first 10 games? I guess that's an L. That's NL, bro. What an idiot you are, Treb. You host the best baseball show that's ever been invented.

You don't even know the difference in NL and A. Adaboy. How about Luis Renique? of the Angels, 12 for 25, a double, three homer six ribbies. He was batting 219 with a 637 OPS in the first half. Guess what he's doing in the second half? I'll tell you, 312 in the second half average with a 956 OPS. That's good.

My guy, Sunny Gray, Minnesota Twins, starting pitcher. He pitched two games in this week. 14 innings pitched, nine hits, one earned run, 9Ks. That's good for a. point 64. He lowered his ERA to an A-O-Best 292, which I already mentioned earlier in the show. He's going off for the two weeks. And this, my friends, is the one you want to be on.

August 18th through August 31st. How about our guy Santander? He's awesome. Anthony Santander 15 for 36, 3 doubles, 5 homers, 14 Rivies. He became the first Orioles switch hitter to hit 25 in consecutive season. and I love this guy. Eddie Murray. Yeah.

Hall. Me and Eddie Murray, we have some fun times together. Let me tell you that right now. I see him in Vegas for this golf, poker tournament. He's in. I mentioned earlier.

He's there. And he's something else. That's a great pairing, right? Me and Eddie Murray? From everything I know, yes. Yeah. Good times. A lot of good conversations with all Eddie.

He's a dog, baby. I love it. I don't know how to say this guy's name. He's not in my book. I think it's Regens. Cole Regens. Chapman trade. Starting pitcher for the Royals now.

Three games started in these two weeks. He goes two and no. He goes 19 innings pitch. Only three earned runs. 29Ks. Okay, Cole. You're in my book now, player? That's a 142 and 0.84 whip.

That's nice. He finished the month of August with 53Ks, the second most in Royals history, behind Dennis Leonard's 55 in 1977. And the last one, our guy, relief pitcher, Hensches. You were just talking about the Cleveland Bullpen. He pitched in six games, seven in a third innings, no earned runs 11Ks.

That'll get you on this list. Shout out Cleveland relief pitcher, Henthes. And that's, it was in Fuego. Who did you just shout out with Cole Regens? That was Dennis Leonard. gets a shout out on talking baseball in 2023. That's where it's different. That's where sometimes we're just not the same.

Trev, that was incredible. Man, that Reagan's Chapman trade, that could go down as an interesting one. Maybe even a jolly olive players traded for Eraldus Chapman if he turns into something. Trev, the aisle, which we hate, but it informs the people Matt Chapman and Boba. Shit.

Yo. I mean, luckily it's allowed Davis Schneider to play, the best player ever. So that's good news, but that's circle that. That's scary. Matt McLean for our Reds. Hate that. What a year. You Darvish and Adrian Houser. Two also injuries we don't like. Returning from the I.L. Ozzy Albies.

Thank God. The Braves were swimming for a little bit there. Michael Brantley, thank God. Houston gets him back. Mitch Hanager and Yaz for the San Francisco. He hunt days, adding to their outfield depth. And that's what I've got on the IL, which means one thing only, it's time to start your Labor Day weekend. And awards are brought to you by the Draft King Sportsbook.

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on Draft King's sportsbook with Code Talking. The Crown is yours. Trev, the crown's been yours, Pop. I saw Paxton put out an IG post with her, Dalton, and Kelse together at the floor ball, and I just got really jealous that I wasn't there. Yeah. Floor ball is a ton of fun, man.

Bro, floorball is going to blow people's minds. Where the warehouse is at now is another step, and we just announced we have our Blitzball Blitzk, Blitz coming up. We're going to be live on our... Not a part of that either. We're going to be live warehouse games the next three Thursdays at 5 p.m. Five teams, one-in-in-in games, and then we're doing a live event at Billy's in the Bronx. We're trying to get like 500 people there. It's going to be nuts. So, exciting times. As everyone at John Boy Media tries to distract themselves from the Yankees.

Trev, your award. I am going, I'm getting religious. Yes. With this award. I'm going with Jesus was a carpenter. Award. I went to Catholic school my entire life. Really?

Yeah, I did. Believe it or not. Mass. I went to confession, which is a strange practice, but actually kind of makes you feel good. feels like, you know, you cleanse yourself a little bit. I got to say a few Hail Marys our fathers, you're good.

I would have a cussed. I would have a bad son to my parents. I was mean to my siblings. You never let him know all this. Right, I was going to say, like, I would love to hear some of young Trebs, full confessionals, but that'll be another show for another day. So speaking of the Catholic religion, one of the main points is this guy, Jesus, son of God, comes down. Right? He lives a normal life until he's like in his late 20s, 30s, then he becomes Jesus and everyone starts following him around. But he had a job. And his job was a carpenter. So he worked with the wood. Now my question is, I've always asked this question. I'm curious. If there's any historians out there, any, what do they call it? Archaeologists. That's who digs things up, right? Yeah. Thank you. Have we ever found any of Jesus?

Jesus is woodworking? Are there some tables out there that Jesus made? Like, was he a good carpenter? That's the questions that I have. If they found them, bro, those would sell for a pretty penny. Check out the Elp Reveal. Like, does Jesus have a chair that, like, oh, this is Jesus' chair? That thing was sick.

Like, if you press the wood here, like, Jesus probably made some cool furniture. I'd have to assume, do you think he, like, used his God power? to like sand it. He said, I don't want to sand this shit today. Sand it and snaps. Just like that. That's cheating Jesus. You can't be doing that.

Unbelievable. So I was just curious about that. Jesus was a carpenter. You know who else is a carpenter? Carrie Carpenter. Oh. Of the Detroit Tigers. I wanted to give this guy a show.

Yeah. Okay. He's on the Tigers. We don't talk about the Tigers a lot. No. Because they don't, they haven't won a lot of games. They're in a weird position as a franchise.

But one of the things you have to do as a franchise is hit on guys that are 19th round draft picks. That's exactly what the Tigers have done here. 19th round out of Virginia Tech. He's a Florida boy. He's 6-2-220. This guy's hit every single place that he's been. Okay? Let's bring it into the minors.

You played four seasons in the minors. 285-352, 531 for an 883 OPS. Okay? that's good. A lot of guys hit the minors. In college, only played one season. I think he did some other stuff, like some junior college stuff. 862 OPS. Oh, that's nice. It's college. That's amateur ball. Minor leagues, that's minor league ball. What is this guy done at the big league level? He's continued to mash. Overall, in two seasons. He's played 122 games, 454 played appearances. So, like, not yet a full season, but we're getting there. This guy's put up an

855 with 26 homers, 65 ribbies. He needs to work on the plate discipline a little bit. He's striking out a little too much. But overall, this guy has continued to rake. Like, there are some guys, Jake, and I played with a lot of these guys in the minor leagues that just hit. They hit everywhere they go, but not all of them get opportunities. Right.

There might be like a defensive thing. We don't know where to put them. Or they're just blocked. and then they kind of just like get phased out. I could name, I don't know, several guys that I played with that I thought were going to be stars in the big leagues because they just hit, dude. But it doesn't always work out the way.

Like I said, he don't always get the opportunities. Carrie Carpenter now has created his own opportunity, dude. Let me get the splits up for you because it is really impressive. He's continued to get better as a season goes on too. in, where is it? In April and March, 744 OPS, okay, it's cold out there, getting the feet wet, you know, new season and all this stuff, okay?

June, 874 starts to step it up. In August, you know what he's got? He won dotted it in August. Wow. 101 at Bats, nine homers, 20 ribbies. He 346ed it. 347, 405, 654 for the one dot. So look, I don't know what kind of chairs Jesus made.

I don't know if Jesus snapped his finger and made a table when this other Joe Schmo carpenter is working his butt off. I'm not sure if Jesus took shortcuts. All I'm saying is Carrie Carpenter, that kind of carpenter is going to be a mainstay in the big leaps because this guy rakes at every level that he's ever played at dude. So I wanted to shout him out. He's having a terrific year on a bad team, so you don't get a lot of lights showing on you. But that's what this show is for.

That's what these awards are for. We've got to highlight the people that deserve it. And Kerry Carpenter deserves the bright lights. Shout out, Kerry. Trev, you're so right. I've tried to shout him out where we can, but it feels like we've talked about Spencer Torkelson the past month because he went on a little bit of a heater. Carrie Carpenter's blown this dude out of the water

And there's going to be a little bit of Tigers hype train next year Carrie Carpenter, Riley Green, Torkelson They just called up Parker Meadows Younger Brother of Austin Meadows He looks like he's got the goods That AL Central will be wide open until it's not And look at what happened with the Reds If the Tigers can find a couple kids here and there

They've still got a 0.2% chance to win the census. They play the White Sox twice in their next three series. Trave, a great award. I guess it's slightly less tasteful, as I usually am. I'm giving out the crop dusting award. You know, it's become a common term in our society. And it's a classic joke if it's done right. Well, it's also a real thing.

You've ever seen a playing crop dust? And it's a real thing in Middle America? I mean, you know. Don't understand it. Why are they dusting the crops again? What's it do? I think we're killing bugs and stuff, right? And we're probably...

A natural pesticide? Love it. We're probably giving them some performance enhancers, too, so our corn gets a little bigger. You know what I'm saying? Roman. The crop dusting award is going to the Chicago Cups.

Because our guy, our guy, Dalt put something in here that I thought was really interesting because I was like, okay, Cubbies, I told you, they've been throwing my equation off for a while now. Like, even when they were looking to trade Bellinger, they had really good offense, defense, and pitching. And I was like, okay, in the NL Central, they got hot.

They don't trade. They don't sell. Now it's them and the Brewers up there. It's actually funny. They're three games behind the Brewers. Three games behind them are the Reds. You've heard me do this before. You know, are you going to join the Reds and hang out back there?

you going to join the Brewers and hang out up there? I was proud of the Cubs for taking two out of three to get a step closer. Their next 11 games in a row are against the teams that are chasing them in the wild card. The Reds, the Giants, and the Diamondbacks. You're playing playoff baseball. You're going to get those teams best punches. You're going to get relievers pitching in a third day in the row. you're not getting rest days for healthy guys.

You're going to get their best shot. And if the Cubs survive this, which I think they will. I think they look good. I think they know what they do when they go and they do it. The Cubs are going to have me, they're going to have me believing more than I have if they can survive this stretch. I know that sounds obvious.

And like the Dodgers and Braves. feel like they're in another world, but short playoff series, a lot of stuff can happen. And if the Cubs survive this stretch, they survive the trade deadline. If they survive this wild card hunt, manhunt for 11 games,

14 of the next 17. For the next three weeks, they're getting hunted by the teams that want to kill them. If they survive that, man, Go Cubs go So just crop dust Leave some little flarts back there Don't let them catch you

I don't I like it Like I like where you're going The crop dusting I don't get the I probably should have done something About a like a civilization That survived like trying to get conquered each time But I don't know

In my head I thought it was funny If they were behind them And the Cubs just farted on them I see what you're saying a little bit. Okay. Go Cubbies go. I agree. I think that there's a lot of that coming up because that wild card is so jumbled up. It is going to be playoff baseball for a lot of these teams in September, man.

I would love to see them do it. They do have a fun team and have the pieces to get it done. We've seen some of these guys like be in Chicago for a while and not really have a chance to do what they're doing. doing now and that's playing meaningful baseball in September. So I'm rooting for that. I think it's going to be good for them. I do want to shout out one more thing about Carrie Carpenter, as I forgot to mention. Sure.

Jakey Liddix. What do you have to do with runners and scoring position to be a good player? Put the bat on the ball, hard. Just get hits. Just hit with runners and squaring position is going to be good for your team, right? Yes. Jakey Liddix. He's one dot in those.

positions. 77 at Bats, 325, 405, 597. Who's the better carpenter? Oh, okay. Jesus or Kerry? Matt. I also have one more thing I wanted to mention, and I heard it on the broadcast of that Dodgers Braves game.

Dave Roberts openly talks about the Dodgers having a different approach when runners are on base. And there's a lot of teams that do not. do that. They're very much the analytics, A-swing. Like, that's how you, that's the best way to score runs and win games, you know, can't stop the home run. I don't know. I really like the Dodgers offense. And even after Mookie and Freddie, who almost shouldn't count because those are otherworldly Hall of Famers. But man, the baseball last night in LA was a different brand than I've seen all season. Both of those teams kind of been hearing about each other for a

God, I'm ready for more of that. I'm ready for more of that. It's almost like your co-host has a saying for that. You've got to have more than one club in the bag. Can't just be going up there swinging out your ass. You've got to be able to put the bat in the ball when you need to. That's so ridiculous that anybody tried to come and tell people, swing as hard as you can, every time.

And guys don't do that. Maybe a few of them do. But the fact that, like, some people think that's the best way to do to score runs in the big leagues is a joke because that means they've never seen major league pitching. There are times you just can't get your freaking A swing off. You can't.

I'm sorry. One two count from Spencer Strider. You're not getting your A swing off. you know what you're trying to do see the ball oh like that little white aspirin pill that i'm i have to get my a swing off on that and no and what's funny is i bet if you put any dude that that thinks you got a swing a swing a swing which is fucking ridiculous put them in the box i want to see them do it i want to see them even attempt attempt to do an a swing every single time Now there are times where you get hot and you feel great and you see the ball like it's so big

that maybe you can get into a groove where you are going to crush everything. But I'll also say this. When you're in those grooves, there are times where you don't want to take your A swing because you know it's not the right play. Right. Don't make me go old school baseball player. Don't make me. Treve, I love it. I already diss Jesus in this episode.

Well, what a way to start Labor Day weekend. Thank you to Trevor Davis. Just got a funny text from John. Everyone, enjoy your Labor Day. I hope you get a baseball fix in there, too. We will see you guys back. Maybe Tuesday night or Wednesday morning. We'll see.

We'll see. Enjoy it. Labor Day? No Monday yet. We love it. A lot of John Boy, huh? That's fun. mean that blew me.

That blew me on. R3. Bunchy orange meal.