Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - CRAZY Holiday Week of Baseball | Weekly Recap | 858

Episode Date: July 5, 2024

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Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball. Happy 5th of July. It's juicy in these streets. Not for my Yanks, though. A lot of other teams playing good ball. We'll talk about them. Tough. Hello.

Welcome to Talking Baseball. Present you by Seatgeek, use code Talkin'10. My name is Jake Storelli. At Talking Jake on all social medias. Trevor Plouf. At T. Plouf X0. sick. What is it? It's just Trevor Ploof.

All the socials. Okay. Just Instagram and X. That's it, actually. X at Big Baby David producing his butt off. Happy 5th of July to everyone. Hope you had a happy fourth. Yeah, we'll talk about that for a little bit. But we got, there's also a lot of ball to talk about today, Trev. You know, it's Friday and it's a holiday Friday,

which means we'll start with the inner league. but my God. I mean, just covering the board. Shout out, shout out to St. Lou. Shout out to Boston. Houston. What my Reds did to my Yanks?

I forgot there was a talking baseball where I just, I wore a Reds jersey with a Yankee hat. A couple people posted that. And I was like, you got me. You got me there. Good drop. Trevor, happy fourth. How are you?

Thank you. I'm doing great. I love the Fourth of July. I believe it's, I think it's my favorite holiday. Christmas has a special hold because you get to open presents with your kids and all that good stuff. But as an adult and just like party time, I think it's the Fourth of July, man. Summer, everyone's, you know, scantily clad around the pool. You know how it goes. So I had a great day yesterday. Excited to talk some ball. I do want to drop something on you right now to bring your spirits down. You're wearing the Jake Croninworth at. Yeah, sure am. Got the Instagram follow from Jake Croninworth.

That's fine. Been there. And Manny Machado. Oh. Yeah. So were the boys gossiping a little? I'm hot in San Diego. I think they heard I was coming down there for the twin series.

So, you know, they wanted to show me a little love. They definitely didn't. Maybe they were having a good chuckle that I'd, uh, yesterday was coming home. We did some 4th of July stuff in Hoboken, met some friends there. Getting back to the city was messy, though. I mean, it's 4th of July. It's just pure chaos.

They, like, shut down some of the tunnels for a little bit. It's like, who does that? Anyways. Yeah, I'm on Uber and back. Got a little holiday buzz going. And I was like, I want to just post something silly on my Insta story. And so I did one of the just, like, big scrolls. Let's see where we landed.

It was a picture of me and Tyler Wade. at Cece's Gala. And I was like, you know what? I'm going to post this happy, happy fourth time away. And so, you know, we had a nice little combo in the DMs. And so that probably sparked, it was probably just... It was you. Yeah, it was just the Padres infield was yuck and ball.

And then they were like, should we follow Treve? Yeah, let's follow and unfall. If you guys follow us, reminder, All-Star Game, we just sold out of our VIP. tickets. It's the Tuesday of the All-Star game. We're in Dallas. Community Beer Co. I've been there before. Dallas, Jake, has been there before. And there's a story behind it, but I'm saving it for the people that come that day. Come through. It's one of our best events every year. And I have a little bit of information for you, Trev, because I've been telling the people, you know, Chris Rose, Joe's McFly, Shelfie, Trevor ploof myself King Bebes John Boy's coming

We were juggling some schedules We made it work John boys won requirement Make sure there's a ping pong table So I can play people in ping pong If you remember He likes that In the All Star game in L.A

It gives him enough separation That he can kind of be engaged with someone Without also having to feel the pressure of like What I do I have a full conversation with everyone And like, you and I, you and I, I end up with numbers in my phone that I'm like, I,

I shouldn't have given you my number. Is Jimmy turning into like Howie Mandel? Like, is he going to get to the point where he's just like, fist bumps only? He gets to have, you know, a shared moment with somebody.

They'll get a story out of it and he doesn't really got to talk to him and touch him. He'll say hi to you. He'll say hi. He'll say hi. Real quick, but he's excited about pink. Real quick,

before we get into, Yuckin ball. The inner league. Yeah. Because it's a holiday Friday. Kendrick Lamar puts out the video. It's bad for Drake in the streets. Toronto also bad.

Joe's McFly reacting to all this. Has been my favorite part of this beef. By the way, he's just, he's all in on it. And I just thought like, man, like, what would it be like to spend a day with Joe's McFly like in his brain? Anime playing Eldon. watching the Yankees game, commenting on these rat beefs.

Like he's all over the place. Father, too. It's crazy how... Huge piece. House, huge piece. All right, let's talk National League ball. One piece, that's what you meant. The New York Mets in the Washington Nationals,

they played four, and the power of grimace was still here. Two extra inning. Dubs to kick off the series in 10 innings. David Peterson and Sean and I with some good starts. Grimmis finally melted in the 4th of July heat as the Nationals take the final two game. So we're splitting four, so I don't know how much we can dive.

Although you may hear more about Jake Irvin later, eight innings, one hit, zero earn runs. James Wood big. Jesse Winker pitch hit Homer. He loves the Mets. They split four. Your Los Angeles Dodgers drop two out of three to the Diamondback. Okay, Snakes. Dodgers, they actually have a walk-off win in that first game.

They survived the opener and Ryan Nelson for Teosker to get grouchy on them. But Christian Walker against the Dodgers. Oh, my. Treb's got some numbers on that. Four homers in the last two games, that's good. Gabby Moreno's back. Six hits in those last two games. Okay, snakes, but it's time to get going because the St. Louis Carliners.

Cardinals have just been winning series, and that's the name of the game. They take two out of three from the Pittsburgh pie rats. It's your guy Gibby in the first game, and my guy, Mitch Keller, okay. But mostly the sticks got it done. Gorman, Donovan, and Burleson. Are those all the same guy? Is that St. Louis's AI-generated thick lefty? Well, they combined for, what's that, three plus four.

We'll call that seven hits. Second game, there's big O'Neill Cruz with the walkoff, although Jared Jones goes on the IL after that game. They say it's not bad. It might just be limiting things, we'll see. But your guy guy, Andre Palante and Martin Perez go toe to toe. Cardinals pull it off in 10 innings. Man, they have some nice splits these days.

Speaking of, Philadelphia Phillies, lost Bryce, lost Schwartz, They don't care. They took two out of three from the Cubbies. Cubbies? They keep digging a deeper hole while the Phillies roll on, and part of that reason is Trey Turner's back. Two home or day. Running hard to first, 31.1 on the sprint speed.

Him and Alec Bohm, your NL left side of the infield for the All-Star game in Dallas. They put up some big efforts. Cubbies, Happer, Jameson, Tyone, Sayas Suzuki, light them up in that final game. Can they get some? something going before the break. Know who's trying. Los Hugueres. The San Francisco Giants beat the Braves in the ATL.

And you know our guy, Elliot Ramos, every game he's two for four with a homer. I looked up his stats really good. We'll talk about that. And you know my guy Hayden Birdsong pitched in this. And I'm leading the Hayden Birdsong hive. Matt Chapman stays hot. The game the Braves win.

Chris Sale. man. He's like entering the Cy Young chat. Good for him. Braves. Funky first half, huh? Rockies and Brewers split four. You know we hate that at talking baseball. We like seeing Dallas Kikel out on the mound and the Brewers traded for the sieve, Aaron Savali as well. So they're getting some starting pitching reinforcements. Man, some highlights in this series.

Nolan Jones with a throw. Jake Cave getting the silent treatment. You don't see that for the vet a lot. Meanwhile, the Brewers took a couple home. Yelly with the big day at the office. Colin Reyes, seven shutout and cores. We like that. And Trev?

Ba-da-ba-bum-bba-ba-ba-da. The Boston Red Sox, they sweep the Miami Marlins. They rout them in the first two games. Crawford and Bayou on the bump. Rafael has been playing really well lately. Jaron Duran is a nightmare. and we saw that in the final game that they win in 12. Exchange and body blows late.

Duran, ba, Bob, Bah, Bah, Duran. Red Sox sweep, full pension Pivs 7 shut,

and the socks are in the playoffs as today. That's your Interleague baseball. God! Don't... You're hot. Don't come at me around the 4th of July. What are we doing? Oh,

baby. Hey, is Nick Povetta? Like, does he have 10 years? He might. He's getting close, Trev. He's getting damn close. He's like, you're a sucker ploof. You don't even have freaking eight years, you loser.

What did you just read? Halfway home. I think technically we'll need the National League. There was actually genuine, a lot of Interleague game, so it's a little tricky. But I'd love some National League standings. Okay, okay. And because it's the Fourth of July week, and of course, I'm starting in the Central. Milwaukee maintains their division lead, 52 and 36.

There's six games above those Cardinals who have the third best record in all of baseball since May 12th. Okay, they're 45 and 41. Cincinnati, after the sweep of the Yanks, swept them. 42 and 45, pirates, 41 and 45. And then the Cubs, man, last place in the division, 40 and 48. Well, go out west. Dodgers still got that lead over the Padres. They're 53 and 35, six and a half games above the fathers. 48 and 43 are they.

Arizona getting close to the 500 mark, they're 43. What are they going to do with the deadline? 43 and 44. Giants, I can't say it how. You say it again? I've changed it to Hugador, because I think that's sports team, but it's wrong either way. It used to be those Hebedo, but that's just not a word. Okay. Giants, 43 and 45 and the Rockies, 30 and 57. And then out east, the Phillies, of course. It's 4th of July. That's where we signed the Declaration of Independence. I think, not too sure on that fact check, me, Bieber. 57 and 30, nine games above the Braves who are 47 and 38. The Mets sit in one game below five, 42 and 43. The Nats, 41 and 46, and the Marlins, 30 and 57. I would change.

the name of the Marlins, if I could. Okay. There's so many other things in Florida, like the Marlins? That's kind of a great point. Okay. Like the Gators? I don't know. Anyways, in the wild card, in the National League,

the Braves still holding on to the top spot. They're two and a half games above the pods, who have the second spot. And St. Louis, holding on to the third spot in the wild card, in the National League. They're two and a half up on the snakes and the Mets. Giants and Sinci lurking as well. It's still kind of jumbled up there,

but the cards trying to separate themselves. And those are the standings in the National League. It's incredible. Tough to beat that. I know we're not talking American League right now, although we always kind of are. Man, seeing Seattle, Baltimore and Cleveland as your division leaders, Flashback to 97.

That's where my weird brain went. Like that's what was going on. But that's in the American League. So let's talk some National League baseball. And let's start with, I don't want to start with you. Hey man, you said we start in the Central. Fourth of July, America. St. Louis Cardinals.

You dropped that fun fact in there. Like, I don't know. We've kind of been giving them. snaps. I feel like we've gotten enamored with the Padres a little bit because we're friends with their infield on Instagram. The fact that they've been playing good ball, I don't know. Has this been under the radar? Because what did you say third best record since May 12th? Like almost two months now? Yeah, 30 and 17 since May 12th, which is the third best record in all the baseball. Is that the day Kibi called your ass out for not liking Marmol?

I could go back. We might have to check the logs all right. Oh, let me just go back real quick because it could be. And I love Gibby. He's, Ghibi and Evan Longoria are North Star. They make sure that we stay on path. If we stray even a little bit,

I'm getting blown up by these guys. So I even got a text from Longo yesterday about the twins and Royce Lewis. And I was like, Dude, it's 4th of July. He's locked in on ball. Love that from long ago. I'll go back in the logs with Gibby. But Card's doing it, man.

Like, you mentioned the big burly boys out there getting it done. But the pitching's been really good, too. I think that's kind of underrated there. Like, Palante in the last game, going seven, one-earned run. Like, that hasn't been his M.O. all year long, but they're getting going. Start to win ball games like they're doing. and you get those performances. Let's see when Gibby yelled at me.

Gibby yell check. Yeah, as I, you know, kind of zooming back in on the Cardinals and seeing what I like, okay, we're six in the NL and ERA. I don't love that. But the hitting's not really there. So I guess the pitching is where the majority of the love should be going.

And I know, you know, his name doesn't even light up in this series, but Mason win, leading the team in war at 3.2 as a rookie shortstop. That's pretty nutty there. Yeah, I don't know. This classic glass half full, glass half empty,

that they should be getting more out of this offense that if the pitching holds, I don't know, the Cardinals and the Padres have now opened up a little bit of a gap in the wild card. Cardinals fans, let us know. Has this felt like a great brand of baseball? Because I guess outside looking in,

we haven't had a lot of like, whoa moments. Like these guys are lighting it up. But we're going to talk a lot about rubbers this episode. And they have won the final game of the series 12 times out of the last 13. That helps. One run games for them, 16 and 12 this season after going 17 and 26 last year. and Gibby and I were talking about Ollie Marmal on April 16 so it was not that but around the time they started getting hot

do you know what it was it was Contreras going out forearm right that was on May 8th I asked him there going to be any retribution for last night and he said no I haven't heard anything so you know right after that they started going which

it's a palsy text to send Trev like I know you and Gibby are guys but, you know, a media man saying, is their retribution coming? I'm not, you know, I'm in. I know. I know. So, look, sometimes stuff like that, like, we'll rally a team. You see that from time to time. Your guys go out.

I mean, the Phillies are doing that right now. They got a bunch of guys on the aisle. And certain guys have to step up putting new roles and spark the team. And I don't know if that's what it was for the Cardinals. But dang, man. They deserve the shout. And I will say this. Is there somebody else that's had more faith in the Cardinals,

even through all of this? Yes, I've wanted your manager fired. That's fine. But the players I've been on, the roster I've been on. And now you guys are making me look very smart. So thank you, St. Louis. Man, they've, you know, I think Jojo got hit in this series, but they've got a few guys in the bullpen having nice years.

And, man, we were, I think everyone was slightly crissue. critical slash interested. Lance Lynn, Sunny Gray, Kyle Gibson. Yeah. 298 ERA for Sunny. 388 for Gibby. 359 for Lance. All of them with 87.2 plus innings.

Like those three guys that they went out and got early for innings have been giving them enough. Lance Lynn, okay, I know we've been asking people for, to help us understand war better. Lans Lin, 17 games, 87.2 innings pitched, a 359 ERA, has a 0.2 war. That's just wrong. Like, I don't care how we're measuring things. I mean, I don't really understand that either.

What's his FIP, I guess, I would say? Is he striking enough people out? I think they definitely look at that. Ask Lance Lynn for his FIP. See what happens. This is interesting because in FIP's fine. I'm looking like just OPS for the Cardinals. it's not great on the year.

I think they're 20th overall in OPS. So it really hasn't been the offense. In May, they were like sixth in OPS in all the league. It was only a 725. And then in June, they're all the way back down to 18th. So I guess timely hitting has probably been it. And then the pitching is the one run games is something. Go Cardinals.

I'm in Lance Lynn's game log. I'm trying to see if there's like a blowup start where he's like, did he give his team no chance? And that's like a minus one on them. There isn't. It shouldn't even work like that. It shouldn't work like that. Someone tell me how it works.

The Cardinals are tied for second to last in OPS with runners in scoring position. So what is happening? Class half full in St. Louis. I think our... Hey. Lars coming back. The hits they are getting are huge or something.

On the other side, and I don't think we need to spend a lot of time on this, but sometimes I get frustrated when players don't really talk and into it. reviews, but I very much get the side of it that you say one wrong thing and that's a bad time. Remember when the Pirates front office told us that they were going to make moves? Go look at where they're at in the standings. Jared Jones banged up. I know they want to limit his innings.

And he came out and said, he's like, hey, if I needed to still pitch, I would have kept pitching. So I'm not worried about that, but like the Pirates prospects for this season have changed significantly in a couple weeks because they are now. If you look at the wild card standings The four games back Four games back with one, two, three, four Four teams ahead of them I mean, I know that's not dramatic

And hopefully they're still trying to build something In the next few years, but I don't know I don't know slippery slow When did you say that? Because they got close to 500 But they haven't been 500 Since April 27th

So interesting I mean, look, I would love for them to go at offense, but you know, you have to have those guys healthy and on the mound. You have to be within striking distance of the wild card. It's going to be such a nutty trade deadline. All these teams jumbled up there. You've got to decide quickly, I think, what you're going to do as a team.

If you're one of those teams, it's four games out, and you've got to jump three or four teams. It's, it's going to have to make some tough calls. Met's pirates playing four. I think. Watch out for that. Treve, also in the National League. Let's do Phillies Cubs.

Phillies take two out of three. I'll be honest. I think the two storylines for me is Phillies. I talk about, you know, you go on a hot stretch or a cold stretch before this All-Star break. Look at what my Yankees are currently doing. Look at what the Yankees are currently doing.

look at what the Houston Astros are currently doing, and you can change your whole season's outlook pretty quickly. With Harper, Schwartz going out, I was like, are we going to see Philly for the first time? JT. Are we going to see them kind of limp for the first time this season? And no, they don't, because they're the Phillies, and they just don't care. And meanwhile, on the other side,

if it's getting dark for Pittsburgh, it's been dark for the Cubs. your third worst team in the National League. I think the Phillies are limping, but it's like one of those cool limbs when you walk. I'm going to start walking like that. I don't know why. Why do people do that?

Like silly. You just have it. Like if you have that, you have that. Yeah, I don't know, man. Philly, they're playing good ball. Trey looks good. He hits two homers in that first game. Both of them were like just meatballs.

though 94 like middle end I don't know who was who was throwing that as no it wasn't Mercado excuse me that was there pitcher um middle in he gets extended he couldn't believe he threw that pitch to trade twice he also has an RVI single

to right field just to boot later in the game so getting him locked in has been great Mercado does get his first win of his big league career that's good for the for the fills to have some more pitching depth And then, you know, BOM's doing it in the second game. I'm happy the Cubs won that last game in front of what I'm assuming is a sold-out crowd on 4th of July.

Our guy Ian Hap doing some things, we'll talk about him later. But these are two teams. I feel like they're going kind of opposite directions. Like the Cubs got to make a choice. They're one of those teams, Jake. They can't sell, dude. I've said that many times on this show. Like, if they, if they're selling, then they're selling for the next couple years.

Yeah. Unless you just give belly up. Yeah, I mean, I know we've already. But the rest of the guys are kind of locked in. We've talked about this a lot. Yeah, and I think you can, you know, if it's, I don't want to say scraps, because that's rude to the players. But any of the one year guys, Yelly gets interesting because he has his options.

So I've been looking into a little bit of that. Like those trades can get tricky, but you can do some player to be named later stuff that like, if you were to trade him and he opts in, then you get player X. Sure. Yeah, I don't know. I guess, you know, did the Cardinals sold a little bit last year, right? Like, their hand got forced and they're back this year. So I don't think it's like blow it up, but they're six games back in every team who's not the Rockies or the

Marlins are ahead of them. I mean, they, they're, are you declaring them dead? Do you just do that? It's close. I love, I kind of did it. I love the good people of Chicago a little too much. I'll give them to the All-Star break. But I've kind of, I just, they got to get going.

Tough. I like Ian Hap. My guy, PCA has a couple big games in this. Like my fingerprints are all over this team, James and Tyone, that I want the Cubs to be good. But something's amiss. Great counsel. Did he kill the Cubs? Hmm.

Coming up at five. Let's go, man, there's a lot. There's a lot of sauce in here. Giants Braves. Your guy, Elliot Ramos, is the best player in baseball. And I think we just need to acknowledge that. Yeah, people always tell us that. I love in the first game for the Giants,

they win the bread games, as you like to say. You see Riley and Murphy go back to back. I'm like, oh, here we are. Atlanta's here. And then they're like, no, we got Jorge Soler and late night Lamont. They go back to back. And then Ramos hits the homer that he doesn't even know as a homer for the go-ahead runs, which is great.

He's a stud. Giants win that game. Then they get sailed. They get Chris sailed a little bit of game too. That's fine. He's been looking really good. Riley seems for the Braves on the Braves part of this. Seems like Riley's starting to get going.

That's nice. Nice little series here. And then the Giants turn to their guy. Hey, split the first game is 1-1. And then you got Logan Webb coming in. That's a pretty good formula. He goes seven, two run runs.

Then it's Ramos again and Chappi. And they take the series from the Braves. Yeah. Atlanta, we love you. You guys have been a powerhouse throughout the history of talking baseball, essentially. I know there's some injuries and stuff, but we are now,

I thought this was going to be the part of the year where they maybe close the gap on Phillies a little bit. That hasn't happened. Instead, the wild card teams have kind of closed in on them. The Padres are two games back of the Braves? Like, we've got other teams lurking. I know it's a little too early to look at playoff picture or the simulator.

But yeah, Braves, they just, I thought it was coming. They had a nice stretch there where they were winning a lot of series, but I mean, I think we're looking at a Wild Cars Braves team, which I don't know if I fully believed that. And now they're dancing with the wrong people. They're supposed to be dancing with the Dodgers and the Phillies. They're dancing with the Padres and the Cardinals.

It's an interesting stat that the adult put on our sheet. It's kind of crazy. You know, their offense was so freaking good last year that the record when they allowed four or more runs last year was 43 and 51. So, like, again, you're allowing four or more runs. They still were able to put up a respectable record. I mean, 43 and 51 in those games.

In games this year where they allow four or more runs because the offense isn't there for them, they're 6 and 31. Yeah. It's bad. That's a huge difference. That's bad. Okay.

Trev Uh Hey Grab bag Hodgepodge Uh You know I hate Split in 4

And the Mets and Nats did that Along with the Brewers and the Rockies Red Sox sweep Which is definitely a combo I don't know if we want to save that for the AL And then Christian Walker Just drop in that Oh

Just relax on that one, all right? I'll just relax on that one then Yeah Um My My snout snakes have a lot of bodies back. You got to make that record look just a little better.

Get above 500. And a wild card might might have juice, and I didn't think it was gonna. It's gonna have juice. What do you mean it's not gonna have juice? I thought it was gonna be ugly juice. I thought we were gonna be talking about

an 83 team making the playoffs. Like Cardinals are winning games. The Padres look good. I think the Diamondbacks are gonna have a big second half. Metz. I do too. Like, Mets have had a good formula for a little bit.

Reds just swept the Yankees. Giants. I was interested. I had a head tilt moment. I talked about it on Wake and Jake. America's GM, Jim Bowden, was like, the Giants are buying this deadline.

Like, we kind of, sometimes we zoom out a little bit and we're like, I don't know about this giant team. He's like, think about the investment they did this off season. Chapman, Snell, Solair, Jung Hu Lee.

And when you got, Robbie Ray. They don't have any of those guys. Jungoo Lee is out. Snell is out. Like, what are they going to do? He's coming. Okay.

And when Elia Ramos, I know he's become a legend on this show, he's been one dotting for a month. Um. Do we talk about Puerto Rican baseball players enough? I don't think so. A good point. They're technically American ballplayers. Kind of. They don't consider themselves American ball players.

No. No, they don't. No. They're all WBC team. we got Arizona we'll just talk real quick because I think they deserve a little love they easily could have swept

the Dodgers at home if it wasn't for that last inning it was Will Smith, Freddie Freeman, TASca Hernandez within like six pitches to end the game they would have jock Peterson you know saying this this used to be my house

with the homer he didn't say that but yeah I think so snakes are looking good man we'll talk more about the snakes I think Dalton ended up on snakes radio because he jinxed it or something I don't this this whole world we've we've we've we've jinks Paul seawald this whole world we've we've just gone to win hey shout out to our our Puerto Rican family uh your guy Jose Miranda has turned it on Elliot Ramos uh let's see who else is it Willie Castro Carlos Correa I mean yeah if you see if you see if you see start going back. Burrios, Correa, Lindor, Eddie Rosario. We love you down to PR.

Where's he going to be? I'd love to go down to PR for a weekend. Maybe I will. I feel like I do. Were people moving there, like all the crypto people were moving there or something like that? I don't know.

Which is us. We should have. Right, that's true. That is us. Yeah, one of those islands, not Bahamas. I don't know. I don't know what you're talking right now.

Just stop. Talking out of my butt. Boston, let's talk about you in the AL recap. And let's talk about you with booking.com, booking. Yeah, because I'm going up to Boston. I think the weekend or two after the All-Star game, we're sitting on the Monsta. And booking.com, whatever U.S. city you're looking to go to,

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go there. I'm traveling today. I use booking.com. Where are you heading? I'm not telling you. Your Belinda? Yeah. How do you know your Belinda? I don't know. words. I love that for you. Just fun words. So my brain's like, I like that. Let's do some. Language is your Belinda. Is that Spanish?

Let's do some interleague. Starts out the Seattle Mariners. I mentioned 1997. They hosted the Baltimore Orioles. And man, you know what? Turn my head on this. We talk about the Mariners pitching, right? Seattle, that's what they got.

They got out pitched in the first two games. Greyrod. out duels Kirby in the first one. Dean Kremmer, off the IL, BBD's Dean Kremmer. He outpitches Logan Gilbert in the first one. They salvaged the series on Corbyn-Bernsday, which had to be scary for Mariners fans. But Julio Rodriguez, down in the lineup,

gives them a good game. And J.P. Crawford has some stats with the bases loaded that are just silly, and I like that a lot for him. but the Orioles kind of took it to him. Mariners salvaged the last game. Two ships heading in different directions on top of the respected divisions. Also two teams heading in different directions.

The Tampa Bay Rays, they took down the Royals. What I liked from this series? The Rays showed that they could win in different ways. They outpitch him in that first game. Zach Lattell, your guy. as the Ray's offense. Brandon Lau,

ESOC Paredes, both go yard. Royals win that second game behind Michael Waka, Waka, Waka, and Bobby Witt. But in the last game, 10-8, everyone's knocking the ball around the park. Your guy, Johnny DeLucah,

three-for-five. Brandon Low, again, three-hit day, with a homer. BPD's Ben Rort-Vet. Rays, take the series. They're above 500, and as of today, the Royals would not be in the postseason because of those red socks. The Houston Astros are back.

They take three out of four from the Blue Jays. Hunter Brown is dealing again. He's got some nice splits. Yordawn, yum. He has a few big games in this series. The Blue Jays won game two. They went up seven nothing. George Springer Horowitz.

That game finished 7-6. Some tight pitches late. Otherwise, it's the Astros, the rest of the way. And boy, are they hot. Speaking of hot, the Cincinnati Red sweep the Yankees. And I don't know if they're hot because they kind of hadn't won a series in a month. More so the Yankees searching for the bottom as they lose all three of these games. They fight back in each one, but it's not a number.

Each time Luis Heel's magic has worn off. Stromen gives up three homers. Hey, Ellie De La Cruz was a sight to see. The stadium was buzzing about him. It was there on Tuesday. Noel V. Marte is back. He hits the big homer in the second game. And Jonathan India cannot stop hitting if he wanted to.

Reds trying to keep things above water. The Minnesota Twins, they take two out of three from the Detroit. Tigers. Trev, I'm starting to believe just a little bit. They outlast scubal in game one, although Royce Lewis gets banged up again, but Correa is going nuts. And I mentioned Puerto Rico, Miranda, five for five in that last game. How about him bouncing back after a tough last year? Ryan Jeffers stays hitting in the nightmare Bailey over. It was too much, except in the second game. Riley Green with three hits.

And you know I'm starting to fall for Justin Henry Malloy because we just like a hyphenated name on this show. But it's not enough for Detroit. They're entering the bad spot in the standings. The Rangers, their host in San Diego trying to keep up. They roll them in game one. Nate Dog of all the seven shut piece. Nate Lowe, good day to be a Nathan.

Bad day to be a Nathan's hot dog, although we kind of boycotted, right? Joey Chestnut, Kobayashi. Speaking of boycotted, that Padres infield that loves us, they balled out the final two games. Also, David Peralta, the freight train with a big home run, his first of the year. Guard dogs, they beat the White Sox two out of three.

Let's be honest, you might not care, except Stephen Kwan has become eligible, and he's now leading the American League in batting average. helps when you go three for four in that last game. Daniel Schneeman doing stuff. Guardians fans, let me know. Not super familiar if we're being real. Eric Fettywop with a good start.

He could be on your team post deadline. I guess so could Maldonado too. And the series everyone's talking about, the Oakland Athletics. They sweep the Anaheim Angels. Joey Estes, complete game, shutpiece. Under 100 pitches. J.P. Sears and the boys shut him out in that final game.

Brent Rooker's numbers are incredible. Someone go trade with him if he's on the table. Angels, I was just getting happy for you guys, and then this happens. And that's what happened in the Interlead. Okay, let me read the standings. Then I got something to get off my chest. I am so upset right now.

Okay. What did you just read? That's the American League. And because it's the 5th of July, I'm sorry, in the central. Cleveland, maintaining their lead in a division. They have guys you just have never heard of coming up in big spots. Schneeman, that sounds like a Willy Wonka character. I love it.

54 and 31 for the guard dogs. My twins, 49 and 38, they literally played in a lake. I'm trying to get Target Field called the lake. They played in a lake. Okay. Royals 48 and 41. Tigers, 39 and 48, and then the White Sox, 25 and 64. We'll go out west. Seattle, 48 and 41. But, uh-oh, those Astros. 45 and 42, two games back. They are coming.

Texas, 39 and 48, the Angels, after getting swept 36 and 50, Oakland, 33 and 56. in the east. Baltimore now with a two-game lead over your Yanks, 55 and 32 for the Orioles. Yankees 54 and 35, excuse me. And then Boston, man, do you remember when they were just like a 500 team and they couldn't get it going?

They are eight games over at 47 and 39 now. Tampa Bay sitting one game over 500. We need them to go a little bit. Okay. 44 and 43 and then Toronto, 39 and 48 at the bottom of the division. What are they going to do in the wild card?

My friend Jake, your Yanks currently hold the top spot in the wild card. They are up on my twins who have the second spot in the wild card. And then Boston, a half game up on both Seattle, or excuse me, on Kansas City, Seattle, if they were to get there for that third wildcard spot. Houston within striking distance, Tampa within striking distance, everybody else, Texas, Detroit, Toronto, kind of out of it already, Jake. There are eight and a half games back, respectively, of the AO Wildcard. And those are the standings in the American League. Fantastic.

Stop before you say anything. Stop it. You add something you want to say. What do you got? Congratulations, A's sweep the Angels. Again, we're probably not going to dive too deep into that. There's some good players on these teams, but we know where their standings are. Joe Yestis.

Yeah. Complete game. Actually, really fun to watch pitch. He's got some nasty stuff. He hops off the mound. I was fully ready to come and say, new short king alert. This guy's awesome. If you growed your hair.

If you growed, what am I? Five years old. If you grew your hair out a little more, Jake, this could be you. And then I go on a side. baseball reference pitch. And it says he's 6-2-19. First of all, no way he's 190. If he's 6-2, this guy's 230.

He's a thick boy. Okay. He's got tree trunks. 190 is out of the-c. Jake, I am 6-1. Yeah. Like pushing 200, and you know how skinny I am. You can't tell me that this guy is 6-2.

Yeah. He's got a bum on him. And maybe it's just the high socks throwing me off. I don't know, man. But does he have a small torso in long legs? Is that what it is? Like, he... Interesting.

We need some, we need some confirmation. I'll reach out. We got a moment there where he was standing, uh, I think he was standing next to Soderstrom. And they looked similar heights. And Soderstrom's listed six two. So I, I don't know.

I think you just got, I think he's got so much funk going around with that look that he got me. Like, I don't know. I think he's got a short torso. Okay. Okay. Maybe I'm off on this one. I'm sorry.

God, there has been a lot of talk about my hair lately. I'm glad you talked about him. I was going to give him half a standout because people don't really want to hear, but they deserve to hear. Your guy, Lbutt, Lawrence Butler with the big series, too. Good for him. I think a smart team is going to trade for Brent Rooker. because he's...

Stud right now. He's going off. He's bawling and he has some years of control that I think you can do that right. In the American League, let's start out in the east. Screw the Central for now. Orioles and Mariners,

hey, our two division leaders, Orioles more recently, Mariners have been holding for a while, but it's starting to get tight. And yeah, I mean, I said it on my way through, but we always have this just mental Orioles thing that we don't love their pitching for whatever reason. I just, I don't know what it is. Maybe it's just because the hitting is so beautiful that we get caught up in that. You know, I've got Yankee fans telling me like, oh, here comes the Orioles crochet trade.

We're dead. I don't know if the Orioles think they need him. I mean, every team would use him and they have the assets to get him. But they just outpitched Seattle with Greyrod, the former top pitching prospect in baseball. And Dean Kremmer, who's been a really good MLB pitcher

for a couple years off the IL. So that was, I mean, there's been a lot of, oh, damn, about the Orioles in this office recently. But they are who we thought they were. I'm going to go and call that, I'll say, Yeah, you're right, because they are a three, four, two, ERA overall.

They're second in all of baseball with that. They just kicked my guy swerve and Irvin to the pen because that fuck. Cade Povich is there now. I mean, leave my guy Irvin alone. It's the second year in a row. You guys have done that. That's fine. I like you, Kate Povich.

That's a term of endearment on this show if you don't know. Only you and Randall Gritchett get that. Yeah, no. I don't know why we don't. I mean, I think we give them enough credit. Who says we don't? I think we say... Rayrod's a star.

Dean Kramer's doing his thing. Like, who do we... But if I told you the Orioles are trading at the deadline, you probably jump to pitching and not hitting. They don't really need anything. It's not wrong. I would say, I would say, go get some more bullpen help.

They've talked internally about bringing in a starter for some depth. You know, they've had some injuries at that position this year. But they continue to have guys come in and step up, so I don't know. Hey, I know this has been discussed, and okay, maybe there's just a little bit of salt here. The Ryan O'Hern witchcraft they've done is such... I'm going to say bullshit.

Sorry, kids. Ryan O'Hern, five years, 342 games with Kansas City. 219, 293, 683 OPS. Two years with Baltimore, 183 games. James 289, 333, and 812 OPS. It's got a 139 OPS plus this year. That's not cool. I don't like that for me.

I'm going to a savant page. I want to see if what he's doing differently then. He must be like attacking something different. He couldn't hit fastballs apparently with the Royals because he was a negative five run value in 2021, and negative four run value in 2022. and this year he's a positive six run-de-value. He's sitting 3-29 on them after hitting 2-11 and 260 against the four-seen fastball.

So maybe they just got them on time, Jake. I don't know. Get your foot down. No, don't get your foot down. Just get on time. Don't listen. Nice. That's Coach Trev.

Just get on time. Whatever that means to you. God, that's how you do it. Hey. Sorry to Mariners fans who you guys, some of the splits recently are very bad. I think they've lost. I just love...

We're gonna, yeah, we're gonna talk about the Mariners in a sad fashion later in the show. Mariners have lost 11 of 14. So that's awful. Hey, J.P. Crawford, big part of this show. Trev, bases loaded over the past two years, 636 batting average, 3rd. 37 RBI.

It's a good... It's a clutch. It's a good time to be hitting. Oh, Gunner homered in the last game. That's good. I was going to say, like, you know, Baltimore outpitched Seattle, but it's like,

it's Seattle's offense, man. It's a factor. It continues to be the star of the show in all the worst ways possible. Oh, God. Am I wrong? You're not wrong. You're not.

No, wrong. I've tried to give them their flowers, and I'm an offensive guy during the MLB regular season. They're slugging 392. Julio got slid down to seventh? That could be good for him. The twins did out of the Byron Bucks, and it sparked him. Right. No, I hope so.

I hope so. But, man, we keep looking for him to come out of it, and he's got some awful numbers in the past two weeks. so hopefully it does spark him. I guess, sorry to Seattle. This probably hasn't been your best couple minutes of programming, so let's do Houston now, and we'll just kind of rip the Band-Aid because they beat up on Toronto.

Don't hit that second T. There was another stat in here that the Blue Jays only scored in, like, one out of 39 innings against Houston. at one point because they got no hit by Ronel Blanco. The Blue Jays had played 36 innings against the Astros this season, and they scored in just two innings at one point. That was starting in the first game of this series.

Houston takes three out of four. They're getting the pitching Yiner DS is just ripping the cover off the baseball. Blue Jays have lost 12 of 16. Houston is doing the opposite of that. They've won 12 of their last 14. A ton coming on Houston later in the show. I don't want to just go into them too much. But, you know, Toronto loose three or four here

to get you back down where you're sitting, how many games back of the wild card, eight and a half? Like decisions, decisions, decisions, man. I don't know. They had a, their offense was rocking and rolling. into this series kind of get shut down quite a bit by Houston's

pitching and that's kind of their calling card. There was one example of Alvarez in the second game hit a 3-0 home run against Brio on a change-up. That's when you know things are just bad or Alvarez is just that good.

He's hunting heaters, 3-0, gets a change-up and still hits a home run. He's a freaking freaking menace. I almost choked on my own spit right there. Yeah, Toronto and Texas, I'm not sure how much we'll talk about, well, we've been talking Padres infield a lot,

but Toronto and Texas, like I don't know what you want to hear or what you believe in. Texas won it all last year, so I guess that's a little differently that if they were to go through the deadline and say, screw it, we've got a lot of high-priced guys on this team,

Maybe they find something for two months and ride a different tail. I'd be okay with that. Toronto, unless you guys pull off one of these 12 for 14s or something, it's done. I mean, nothing about this team excites. Like, we talk about the rays have had injuries. Houston's had injuries. Hell, Texas still has injuries.

Like, Toronto, a lot of the cats have been there for a little bit. I don't know. Uninspired is what I see. When you're, I mean, look, dude, the truth of the situation is, uh, leading up into this time, you're still hunting, uh, a postseason birth. You're still hunting, you know, getting back in this. But now it's July 5th. You understand the trade deadline is three weeks away. And you're looking at the standings and you're like, we're nowhere close to competing

this year. So yeah, maybe there's a little bit of desperation thought. yeah, we can run off 12 in a row. Like maybe you rally the troops with that. But these guys are, you know, they're adults. They got brains. They understand. Like, this is not the year.

And it's got to be frustrating for them and for Blue Jays fans because they've spent. They've brought in people and just hasn't worked. And it happens. It happens. And I'm very, very curious to see the direction of that franchise over the next well, three weeks and next a couple of years to see what they do. They have big decisions.

And just another, and Toronto, like, I love your guys pitching coming into the year, and there's been some, Romano's been hurt or not pitching well. Man, our guy, Tim Mesa came through the office, absolute dude, ripped it up last year, to the tune of a 152 ERA. 803 ERA this year, DFA.

Like, I don't know, there's stuff like that. in a baseball season that literally feels like you can't control. And a lot of that has gone the wrong way for the Jays. So I don't want this to be like, oh, targeted Yankee BS. We got our own issues. What's your hand? Drake loses the beef.

Maybe that's it. Wow. Got to go watch that video, people. It's just, gosh, darn. Let's do a little AL East juicy Lucy, Trev. My Yankees get swept by my Reds. Okay. Yankees

With Once you give us Yankees I'll give us twins Then we'll get into Tampa Kansas That's what the people want And we have to

I want to circle it up With Boston too Who they swept the fish And there's a big Yankees Red Sox series This weekend Which we didn't think We'd be saying that this year

So That's interesting Man Yankees have been going down So big so early Made up number That's oddly close to right I would say

Seven of their last 14 games, they've gone down like five nothing. I honestly think it's worse than that. It's like, yeah, that was a safe number. Conservative estimate. That they've been going down in so many games, and with the offense just not clicking throughout, two runs feels like a lot right now.

So going down five runs feels impossible, which is tough because they gave them a scare in the first two games, down five nothing. They put up a four. spot. Down 3-0. They put up a 2-spot. So that hurts. And hey, we talk about teams formulas a lot right now. What do the Reds have? They've got Diaz on the back end. It hasn't been his prettiest season so far, but he's still a guy. Cruz has been really good for them that they got the lead to those guys and they held on. And Noel V. Marte is back. So when we're talking about

team dynamics. I know he hasn't even been killing it, although his homer is kind of the difference in the second game. Ellie's balling out. We just had him as the best shortstop in the National League. Jonathan, India, going nuts with the stick right now. And now that you've got another body in Marte, and we see Will Benson, he makes a big play defense.

Like, I don't know, the Reds are fighting for their season right now. It's what we've talked about with a few of these teams, and the Yankees are just in the baseball basketball basketball basketball. place and they've kind of done this three years now in this part of the season that it's got people asking a lot of questions and nobody knows the answer red's three and a half back i like you know them getting reinforcements internally back and going into new york and sweeping that's a that's a spark that's a spark um okay um sorry about your yanks okay Still in a wild card spot

And if anyone thinks, again, we're just over the top Oh, Yankee, well, you're overreacted. The record's still good. Lost 14 out of 19. That's... I said that about you guys, it was like two series that you lost And people were going nuts. I was like, hey, you guys are overreacting.

Now the reaction is warranted. Sniff test was there. We've seen a lot of this Yankees. team what's your twins do to the tigers uh the tigers have been not playing good baseball uh they actually get to scoble um in the first game margot hits the homer uh they do enough to win that one simmons woods richards in decent start uh korea hits a homer to kind of like put him ahead and he's been great it's been awesome to see excuse me in the second game festa is a guy that has come up and supposed to be,

our number one pitching prospect has been pretty shaky first two games. A lot of middle, middle off speed stuff. You just can't do that. Doesn't work up here, son. You just,

like, I don't care how nasty it is. Like, you just can't throw it in the middle of the part of the plate. It gives up a grand slam, another homer there. I do have, when did, yeah, Veerling also hit a home run.

Stop. Had to mention that. But Brooks Lee came up in place of Royce Lewis, who has an adductor strain. If you don't know what an adductor is, I'm going to show you. Okay. Oh. Right here. That I'm glad I didn't point because I would have been very wrong.

Yeah. I've done it before. It's not great. It's a little groinish. Kind of runs all the way down the inside part of your leg. I thought it was like the sex lines. No, so, yeah, no. What is that called? That's something else. Got excited. Anyways, yeah, he's out until at least three. the All-Star break. Like, man, I need that guy on the field. But because he's out, they bring up Brooks Lee,

who was, I don't know if he's our top prospect or one of the top prospects. He looks good. Switch hitter, plays infield, fits right in with Roy's out. I think he went three for six in the series. But Festa, you know, he got shellacked. Just got to stay out of the middle of the zone, my guy. And then the last game,

Kentomeda just got shelled. It was a range-shortened game. Twins are good. I'm happy. The offense has been. incredible. Houston comes into town. They're hot. Twins are kind of hot. We'll see how that goes. Good series coming down.

Matt Veerling-Homer, did I mention that? Trev, you get me to October for the twins, and Correa looks good, and Buxton's on the field, and Royce Lewis is on the field, and Jose Miranda is doing what he's doing right now. Like, that's a real lineup. I know we've done this a couple EPS now, but it's, man, those twins early on were missing bodies and guys were not performing, they are now.

Yeah, I mean, they picked it up offensively. That's basically been what's going on, big time. Trev, let's wind down a little bit with the Tampa Bay Rays in Kansas City. Rays have introduced themselves to the chat. They're above 500. They beat the Royals, as I said on the way through, which lit up a little Ray's light bulb. for me is they did it in two different ways.

They outpitched them big one day, and they out hit them on a day that the Royals put up an eight spot. And I said this part before, the names are starting to change. Brandon Lau is back. And when that guy's on the field, he's a constant threat. Yeah, the race who trade away Savale, who it was interesting to see in hindsight the, you know, they traded for Savali last year. and I think it was two and a half years of him.

And they had to give up a big prospect, Manzardo, who went over to Cleveland, top 50 prospect. I know Cleveland tough cup of coffee for him this year, but they still have high expectations. Savali having a tough year this year, less control. They flip him for a guy. I think he's now the Ray's 19th prospect we looked at. He's unranked in Milwaukee.

I don't want to say addition by subtraction for the raise, but it's also for them a little bit of like where the raise and we don't care that I don't know they are they're back in the season in Kansas City just looking at the sharks around them and you might hear some more thing about sharks later that's I don't love where they're at.

Yeah I mean I agree I think they still have the makeup to stick in the race but earlier in the season you know obviously things are going much back for them. This is a fun series, though. We had some, we had some rain going on there. And I don't know why. Whenever I see the rays play in rain, I'm like, what's going on? I just associate them with a dome. I don't know. That's just a weird thought I had. First game, you know, kind of get the job done after the rain delay. Go up 5-1, Bealow puts him ahead.

And the second game, Sal, like a little shooter. He's always so good with, whatever his numbers career with runners in scoring position. Bevers, can you get those up? I feel like he's got to be really good. He puts them up three and then the rays are down. After you look those up, Bebers, you know, I got that video on the show. Your guy is Bill.

Salvador Perez runners in scoring position. That's 1,331 played appearances. 295 batting average, 345 on base, a 492 slug in 837 OPS. Okay. passes the eye test

or the eye test is goes with the stats I don't know what I'm trying to say he's going to go in the scoring position shooter gets him up three raised down two in the ninth

and then we see this oh my that's a real catch that's a real catch man that's a bell going out and getting putting the body on the line Jake and that's no he's like

that's he knows where he's at that's core awareness if you will right there. I could never do that. You know how hard that is? You hit the track, which by the way, a warning track is like the greatest invention

in all the sports. Like think about that. If you didn't have a warning track, it'd be bad. Yeah. So the warning track literally warns you of the fence. But knowing what your full speed,

how many steps you have to go before you hit the fence, understanding, okay, I got one step in, And I'm full speed. I got to go up in the air now and then brace myself for the wall, understanding when the impact is going to come. He snow cone that.

He barely had in his glove. But do you see, the ball doesn't move, man. Like he nails that wall, has the ball. I mean, game saving catch for them. They get the second game. And then they fight back against the race late in game three, but to no avail. That's just an unreal catcher.

He looks like a person in one of those Velcro suits jumping into the wall but he'd not wearing Velcro and that wall ain't soft even if we went out to the field right now and I was like hey man just go run out there and brace yourself for impact as you jump into the wall

your timing wouldn't be there like it just takes rep after rep after rep after rep when I moved to the outfield for a bit that was like one of the things I was like dude how do you fucking do this like you have to have so much awareness around you playing in all these different parks where like the angle

are weird off walls and different types of fences out there. Yankees fans know that, and Aaron Judge. It's one of the most unique things in sports having to deal with all these different types of fences and terrains and cuts and distances. And even some of the warning tracks are different sizes, which is strange to me. They should be uniform.

I was just about to ask if they're the same length. They're not, and they shouldn't. So it looks like, and this is, why people tune in. MLB formalized the warning track requirement specifying that all parks must have a 10 foot wide path or other

material instead of grass. So I think that's 10 foot wide minimum. Well, it could have changed since I've been done playing, but I mean, I definitely know that there's different size warning tracks when I was playing.

And you played after 49, so the term comes from there was an actual track built into Yankee Stadium when it opened in 23. Like I think we were like, yeah, doing like Olympic type stuff. Outfielders found the track useful. And in 1949, MLB said we're doing it. Everybody make this. Is that not guys being dudes that it also took 25 years to confirm that they like it as well?

Um, that's an AI Google answer. So I hope it's right. I guess we need to, let's find out like our warning tracks universal in today's game. I don't think they are. I feel like Target field has a, a big warning track, a larger than 10 feet.

But again, maybe in the recent CBAs, they've changed that and said, let's make them universal, which makes sense. Right. Um, I've got another, it's just a similar concept of to who invented the warning

track. I've been playing a lot of chess lately. I've had some people comment. Actually, I've been playing on my phone. I've been playing someone who's a fan. They'd like found me on there on the chess app. And we've been some heated games. And I just had a cool moment. They said they're coming to the All-Star game in Denver. So I'm going to get to meet my chess buddy. Why I started that conversation. Yeah, I was just say flex, but why? Why? Chet, whoever, they don't know who invented chess because it goes back so far.

And dude, chess holds up. Like chess is still a good game. That's insane. Chess, like, if you're bored today, like if you're whoever you are trying to get through the day, look up who invented chess and people are hot on it. They don't know which country. They don't know, like,

one of the first things that got me, was like there's a guy that they're like, he didn't invent chess, but he was the first guy who was good at chess. I don't know. I don't know. It was a good search the other day. ALE's, Trev.

I guess let's round it off with a round picture because, again, the Red Sox did work to the Marlins and we're not fully diving into that series because I think the stuff outside of it is more important. Devers has we talked about it on All-JM, but even for the last week, he's one dotting. Raphaelah looks like he might have turned a corner.

That, yeah, it tees up for a huge, a big Yankees Red Sox, Fourth of July weekend series in the Bronx with two teams sprinting the opposite direction. With the raise back in the mix, so I don't know, I guess a little ALE's check-in and I guess what you're seeing because I'm a little too close to it.

I love the Red Sox team. They're one of my favorite rosters in baseball. I like the way it's constructed. Brian Beow had some quotes about how he's not dealing with his emotions the correct way this year. And he's letting them get the best of him. He's worked really hard to control them. And it's worked over years past just not this year. Well, he goes out, and I don't know if it's a Marlins thing, but has a great start.

Six and through thirds. Navigate seven hits. So there was some traffic. The emotions there. You know, maybe he tempered them a little bit. only one earned run. You only walked one guy. So that's interesting.

I mean, look, they kind of do everything well. And they, as we've seen for your Yanks, can be an absolute nightmare on the base pass. So look out. How many bases did L.A. of the Cruz steal this? Ooh. He had a successful steals at least one.

Yeah, we thought it was going to be uglier. Two stolen bases. Which again, the fact... He ran a couple times, some foul-offs. Ball got put in play during it. He was running. He's alley. Also homered.

Yeah, I guess we... Talking Yanks recently has been a lot of not excited. Don't like this. I guess I haven't fully processed how ugly this weekend could potentially get for the Yankees if they don't get a ball game or two. excited for that and how about this i mean if the raisin red sox play coming up that's going to be juicy um raise being in back in the picture is is good for ball and our lock of 84 and a half before the

season uh texas yeah let's go texas pot just go texas proffes real quick go padres go fingerprints all over all that good stuff i mentioned on uh the baseball today i've heard through the great vine that the Padres have like this like secret like Chris Rose called him a sugar daddy after I explain it to him a guy that's like there like almost like a silent partner is a minority owner so that clip went out Padres fans kind of like what is what's he talking about and then some like obviously we already know about this guy his name is Alfredo Harpaloo. He's like another billionaire who's a minority owner of the team and then apparently goes a little bit deeper he's Carlos Slim's cousin

and Carlos Slim he only like only cares about he doesn't really care about baseball but he loves the Padres and this guy's got like 19 Bill or something crazy like that so like there I think there might be a whole underworld in San Diego that we like don't really know about

that I love and hopefully I'm like okay with talking about that it seems like it's common knowledge in San Diego, but I don't think the national baseball world knows that they have that, which is like, isn't that fun? I'm so interested to find out any facts on that. It's facts. You know, I don't use my Jeff Pass in actual text a lot, but I may pry on that. And hey, Rangers.

Rangler slam in 2012 toward Petco before the auction and his cousin is a minority owner. That's coming from Aden's heart on X. So like there's some stuff going on that I just, I think this Pajas team is. I love them. Rangers are 17 and 31 since May 10th. Go do something. We're going to see the vibes down there in like a week and a half. A week?

Jesus. Yeah, leaving just over a week. One thing before you read that, Raisin Red Sox don't play till September. Okay, stay hot then. And stay hot with the farmer's dog. Showed up yesterday for me. Fourth of July.

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says noodle on. him. He likes that. He's, you know, he's vain like his daddy. Um, and take care of your pup, whether they're old or young. The farmer's dog, it's made for them. These dogs are all different. Uh, that means they need some different food in there, but they all want the fresh, higher quality food from the farmer's dog. And we like a deal. How about 50% off your first box at the farmer's dog.com slash talking plus free shipping. That's the Farmersdog.com slash talking 50% off. There's a link in the description. Standout performances.

Stand out performances. What you got? Oh, you know, we kind of been all over the Cubs and like, guys, this is just not looking good for you, all this. We talk about their core. One of the guys that's in their core, one of our good buddies, I still owe him a bottle of French board. Do I got to get him.

I don't know how to do that, though. You know that's a soft answer. What would your North Star do? He'd posted on his, Evan Longoria would post in his Instagram story. How do I find some French Bordeaux wine? If Evan Longoria knew that I owed Ian Hapabala wine, he would, I don't think, I think he'd like say lose by number.

You lose her. Like it's coming up on three years. I haven't paid my debt. I'm actually very embarrassed of it. Ian, I love you so much. I need to get you. ball the wine, bro. It's going to be, I think I said I'm going to spend $112 on it.

I got to, I got to up the Annie a little bit, right? Yeah, there's interest. Yeah, it's growing. Anyways, on the fourth, to salvage the series. Four for four, a double, two homers, six runs driven in, two runs confirmed. Ian Hap, hot boy loves America. So I love Ian. I had to give it to him.

How could I not? having uh excuse me having arguably his best season uh OPS plus wise at least full season uh go in go we're always ruined for happer back to back gold glove winner I don't know

I think people don't know about that I again it's become an interesting conversation but you wonder who and what the Cubs would answer phone calls on if things continue that direction. Or maybe he and some of those Cubs kids will save the season. But right now not hype for them. Six RBI.

Whoa. Yeah. Good job, Happer. Joey Estes got mentioned a lot on the way through, but I was going to highlight him here because nine innings, zero earned runs, 4Ks for a short, tall king. Instead, I'm going with my guy Jake Irvin for the Nats who helped split up that Mets

four games with two teams still kind of competing, definitely competing. Jake Irvin has been a dog this year. 18 starts, a 2-8-E-R-A, 106 innings pitched. I think if I butterknife him even more recently, uh, that he has been bawling an Oklahoma sooner guy drafted by the twins. Oh, that was high school. Um,

and then he, he went, went to college, got drafted by the Nats. You were trying to knife me a little bit right there. Well, you've brought it up a lot that there's, seems like there's too many guys around the league that, uh,

had some twins routes. His last 13 starts a two, 1-8. Okay, I should have butterknifed it a little better. And I will say this endearingly. I told the talking baseball chat. And I think it's just because I need the scope on my Nats changed. I opened up my phone for the first time on the 4th of July. And I open up X.

And I see our guy Cameron Mabin. He's been friendly with us. I love Cameron. Maven. I love Cameron. He tweeted out. He's like, man, Jake Irvin's bawling. So one of the contender, he's playing his way onto a contender right now. Jake Irvin, 27 years old. He's under control of 2030.

He's, I think he's what the Nats are building here, Cameron. This is part of our core now. And I think it's going to be a big 2025 in the nation's capital. And we love a Jake. So. Okay. I was wondering if you're going to mention the Cameron Maven thing. Yeah.

It's not shots fired. I was just like, come on, Cameron. No, because I think people still don't realize what Washington is like about to be doing. It's coming. Yeah. It's coming. That's fine. Jake Irvin listed dimensions.

6-6-234. Oh. And if I'm being honest, his name didn't sound like a right-handed pitcher to me. I'm getting Dane Dunn. That's Cole. That's the Cole, Irvin effect. Um, Trev, we had a lot of our guy guys. We love that got shot down, uh, for standout.

Trey Turner, your guy Brent and Doyle, uh, Christian Walker. But you might hear about some of these guys coming up in the best part of our show. Dirk nasty's on Fuego. That means I'm on fire, baby. Like Waco. I might have went back and hungwood nameless Jeff yesterday. Mm. Back on the wagon?

Is this brought to you by somebody? Is this brought to us by somebody? So this is a, it's a half test for you. It's brought to us by Corona, but it's kind of not, but we're so in with them. It's always brought to us by Corona. Oh, okay. Yeah. Okay.

So what we're going to do here. I'm going to read in Fuego. And then I'm going to give you my one guy. Hmm. That's just a little bit extra. Mm. Mm. For Corona extra.

So we'll start this out in the series. How about our guy, Brenton Doyle? Colorado Center Fielder 100 percentile and arm strength him and Nolan Jones who throws it harder harder harder

seven for 11 three doubles three homers what five runs driven in four runs scored a stolen base for the 2.4 on this series love that 2 4 how about Hazu Sanchez of Miami they got sweat but he did good

who cares yeah seven for 13 I care double three excuse double a Triple two homers, four runs driven in. For the week and for like forever, it's Yordon Alvarez. You can hear a lot more about him later. In this week, only 11 for 23, four doubles, three homers, eight runs driven in,

eight walks, 11 runs scored. His 10th three plus hit game of the season on Wednesday. It's second in the baseball. Only behind? Stephen Kwan. Because he just rakes. Great interview with Stephen. on Chris Rose rotation, if you want to go check that out.

How about Lenin Sosa of the White Sucks? Okay, we're shouting out the bottom tiered teams. Kind of love this. 11 for 24, three doubles, two homers, six runs driven in. And Brent Rooker on the A's. Talked about him a little bit earlier. Nine for 22. He had three homers in the week.

Five runs driven in, two walks and two bags. Are you swiping bags? Brent. Brent Rooker. Are you just straight up? having a good time, Brent Rooker. Okay. How about for the two weeks?

C.J. Abrams. I feel like he's just been a mainstay here. 18 for 54, five doubles, two homers, seven runs, driven in 13 runs, scored nine walks. Or stolen bases. My guy, Pablo Lopez, if he starts to turn

the corner and becomes the guy we know he can be, look out. Two games started, 14 innings pitched, only six hits only one earned run 23 k's are you are you sticking me for the point five seven whip Craig kimbril getting it done with the o's in those two weeks five games yeah five saves that's right five innings pitched for the five five five or how many runs to give up jake none don't even answer that question nine k's holy my goodness that's a that's a run right there he recorded his four hundred

38th save on Wednesday passing Francisco Rodriguez for the fourth most saves in Major League Baseball history. Him and Kenley Jansen, they're just like Hall of Fame numbers. I know they're good. Everybody knows they're good, but do they know how good they are? No. Okay. So, here's my guy. For the Corona and Fuego player, he just went a little extra. And he's doing like way too much if we're being honest, okay? For, the series, my guy Christian Walker, like kind of sneaky hot boy, like in like the bear

sense. A man way, yeah. Usually not like great looking, but like he, I bet he can fix a lot of things around the house too. Yes. If you can't do it, call the handyman. He'll fix your face, you keep talking like that. Eight for 13 in the series, okay?

Seven, excuse me, six of those eight hits, extra bases, a double five home runs in the series, nine runs driven in, seven runs score. three walks. He's got 19 homers at Dodger Stadium, tying him for Paul Goldschman for the most home runs hit by an active player.

Dollar Stadium, Paul Goldschman's been playing a lot longer. Yeah. And Christian Walker. I have some numbers up about Christian Walker at Dodger Stadium because he owns it. He literally owns Dodger Stadium. He's played, he started, excuse me, in 34 games, Jake.

Okay? he has hit 19 homers in those 34 starts. He's got 32 runs driven in. He's hitting 341 with a 401 783 slug for the 1.1 at Dodgers Stadium. It's his house. We got to stop pitching to this guy for the Dodgers. He had three walks like that. They kind of did.

That's insane. It's his best OPS at any other park besides. Coughman where in Coffman, Yankee Stadium he also owns but these are like in four games, six games, something like that. He's played a bunch of games here. Obviously they're in division and it's just own Chavez Ravine. So he's my Corona extra player of In Fuego.

Trev, marvelous work. I'll give you my notes that went through that. I guess I'll reverse engineer it. Christian Walker. Do the Dodgers just sign him and tell him to retire? Because they got Freddie and Otani at first in DH, so sorry, we don't have a spot for you. We just can't watch you play anymore. I like that.

Does Hazu Sanchez not give off big, and this is a little shots fired at the Marlins? If he got traded to Houston or Tampa, would we not circle him and be like they're about to unlock something? Because it seems like he has all the tools, but it's just never fully come together. Lenin Sosa being on this list Dahl, you are a sick puppy But that's why I love it And Craig Kimbril, you nailed it This guy's

This guy's closing for the best team in the AL right now And pitching well And how did they get him? What did they pay him? Like nothing, right? He was like 13 One for 13 Okay What are we doing here?

It's not bad 1113 Like it's my job We know Mark Viantos is doing well. We know Jaron Duran's doing well. Okay, can't highlight everybody. Don't yell at us. Elliot Ramos, Elliot Ramos, Elliot Ramos.

Elliot Ramos for the algorithm. Worst part of the show, the I.L. Toronto, one of the guys who has been playing really well. Our young prince, I-KF, he goes to the IL. You mentioned your young prince, Royce Lewis. He's on the aisle. Milwaukee's young prince, Joey Ortiz, to the I. Don't like that.

Jared Jones, mentioned that on the way through, and, oh, Dahl did this just for me. Otto Lopez for Miami. So they're going to feel that. Returning from the I.L. How about A.J. Mentor, remember when that Atlanta bullpen just went perfect for a whole postseason and was Tyler,

everyone found out Tyler Matzick puts his nut sack on everything? Garrett Mitchell for Milwaukee. This was like the first freshman we heard about. He's back for the crew. Gabby Moreno for the snakes, massively important. Remember his win-loss split from last year? Alec Thomas for them too. Dean Kramer, you heard about.

Yaz for San Francisco. Jose Soriano, kind of gross for the Angels. That's who's back. Actually, the weekend already started, but let's turn it up a notch. Awards are brought to you by our Dan Patrick's partnership. You guys already know the name Dan Patrick if you've been in the sports world for the past X amount of years. We've partnered John Boy Media with IHeart Podcasts,

and two of our John Boy Media shows can now be found under the Dan Patrick show umbrella. Wake and Jake with me and Beeps talking a lot of baseball and everything else in the sports world. Jimmy's three things where he's diving into all the stuff that Jimmy dives into. You can find it where you found it, or you can find it with them. And it's been really awesome. They've really showed us to a whole different world of sports fans, which has been really cool.

And maybe we're doing the same with them. So thank you to Dan Patrick and our partnership with them. Trev, who's got it for you? My award is called, well, it's a science show. That's what a lot of people always say. And I had the question. I saw some headlines about a, A shark attack, not in El Paso, but in South Padre Island of Texas where four people got bit.

I think they're all going to be okay. One lady got a chunk ripped out of her leg. I guess another guy was playing ball in the water, playing some catch. I don't know if it was baseball or football, but, you know, having a good time. Shark says, nah, get out of my water, bro. So then I started thinking, you know, there's always the expression. Do sharks, they smell blood in the water? I said, is that true?

and the fact is yes they do smell blood in the water but they can tell what type of blood it is is it fish blood oh they like that that's food for them

is it human blood they don't really like that they don't associate that with food but they can smell it for a long way way great sense of smell there's a great book I always read to my kids about sharks

it's a Dr. Seuss book read it to your kids it's great they can smell blood from hundreds of meters away and concentrations as low as one part per million. We're not going to get started on what that means because I don't really know. No.

Okay? So there was that. And then I started thinking, well, if they don't smell human blood and like it, but they go after fish blood, how can I relate this to my astros? And then I started thinking, well, have you ever been fishing? and you go out deep sea fishing, Jake, and you catch a tuna. Say you go tuna fishing.

Okay? When you start to reel your fish up, you got one on the line, you got to combat not only that fish trying to get off your hook, but all the other animals out there that are trying to eat this bloody fish. Seals are a problem. Sharks are a problem.

You've probably seen social media clips where a shark comes and steals a guy trophy catch. It happens all the time. The mariners, that's their fishermen. That's what the mariners are. Their trophy catch would be the AL West. They're trying to get the AL West on the boat. But here come the sharks. That would be the Astros trying to steal the AL West away. And my gosh, they are close to doing it. On June 18th, they were 10 games back.

June 18th people. They were 10 games back. On July 5th, they're sitting two games back. They didn't get to 500 until June 26th, all season long. Not like, hey, they were one in one. They weren't 500 until June 26th. And then they went 12 and 2 in their last 14.

Seattle has gone 4 in 10. in their last 14. Houston is smelling not the Mariners' blood in the water, but their trophy catch the AL West Division crowns blood in the water, and they like it. It smells good. Jake, what's your favorite food? Oh, wow.

I don't, lasagna? It smells like lasagna to them or to you. I don't know why I said that. Hunter Brown has been a big difference. for them. We know about the Astros pitching injuries. Ronelle Blanco's been a gem. Framber's been himself, but before that it was not very good. Injuries. Erigetti hasn't been great. Hunter Brown in April had a 978 ERA. Batters had a 1.038 OPS against him and then May happened. He started 10 games since May 1st,

63 in a third innings pitch, 14 earned runs 70Ks for the 199 and a 569 OPS since that horrible April. He's turned it around. That's been a big one. Yordaun Alvarez has been absolutely bawling. On May 18th, Jake, his OPS was down to 748.

He was looking like a mere more. That could be good. That's above average for the big leagues this year. That ain't Yordon Alvarez. He has a 978 career OPS. I'll say that again, a 978 career OPS. That is elite. We know that. Since he dipped down to 748 on May 18th, he has hit 361, 46, 708 for the 1.1 to get his numbers respectable up to a 939 OPS on the year. he's got 19 homer, he's got 49 runs driven in. He is coming. The Astros are coming. They're inevitable. They're smelling the division. Tidal's blood in the water.

The Mariners, you better get that thing. Get the scaffolding out quick. Hook your fish, get them on board, because if you don't, the sharks are going to eat it all up and you're going to be left with nothing but a hook. Go Astros, go Astros. They're here. We've been calling it.

Jake. They're on the boat. This is what they needed. 12 out of 14. Yiner Diaz on his last 24 games is hitting 3.30. It's everyone. They're doing this without Kyle Tucker. They're doing this without JV. They said they're going to be gone for a little bit longer. He's fouled up off his shin. They haven't missed them. Picked up. They've picked up.

It just proves how weird this sport is. Yeah, they're here. Draft Kings has Seattle, Houston to win the division as essentially a pick-em at this point. And I think if you asked any of the people on this show where they would put their money, not Seattle. And we were talking about are they going to sell Bregman, Dana Brown's first year is always said no. They might buy from Seattle. They already did that, remember? Maybe get one of the pitchers.

Kendall Graveman? What do you guys want for Munoz? Stop that. Stop that. Trev, great award. I'm going to give out the rubber band award. Said there's going to be some talk about rubbers on this show. Man, it's a long season.

There's a lot of ebbs and flows. I hope there's a time when I'm talking about the Yankees bad streak this season instead of just living in it. All-time song T-I rubber band man When that came out Who I be? There's a vibe to them

And the vibes are high You know we're trying to find these little things That put together teams Like we kind of talked about St. Louis And we weren't sure Although I think I just found out today That they've won the last game of every set Which is close to what I'm talking about

12 out of 13. The San Diego Padres were obviously close to their infield, working on their outfield, Higie at Catcher. This was one of my favorite stats I saw on the page today, so I wanted to bring it to light. San Diego is 7 and 1 in rubber matches this year.

So you play two games. You're staring at the other team. If we win this, we've either got a happy flight or happy night. We've won the series. we've achieved our goal. We're doing great. Or you look around the drawing board and the fans are mad and you're kind of sad and what are we doing?

Are we in a slump? Seven in one in rubber matches this year. Coming off last year's San Diego team where they didn't know what was wrong and what, how does this happen and we have so much talent. Man, that's important. And it's a huge part of them being positioned where they are right now, firmly in the wild card and a team that everyone believes in. So them and the Cardinals, basically.

So that's why they got the rubber band man worn. Wild is the Taliban. Nine in my right, 45 in my other hand. Wild is a Taliban? Can we say that? Probably. Okay. Dude, I want so desperately the Padres to be in it and in the postseason and doing a thing.

they're such a fun team to watch the way their roster has been constructed they have some great personalities I guess loud personalities on the team. They're just a fun, fun team. Some rich sugar daddy apparently?

They do have a sugar daddy and a lot of people will point out to us they also sell out every single game so that's also a baseball town. Fans are the sugar daddy a little bit and it is a great baseball city and I will be visiting there I believe twice in August.

Oh. So come come check me out, guys. I'm all about it. I'm on board. I've been on San Diego. You have been. I took me a minute. Surfliner goes from L.A. to San Diego.

Check it out. Yeah? Is that a boat? It's a train. Train. Nice. Wow. And again, I'm not great musically, but T.I.

Rubber band man, whatever you like, bring them out. I used to see T.I. All the time in L.A. He's a short kick. Yeah. A very short kick. And I believe he's a baseball guy.

I think he's got some quotes out there. Okay. Did he play a baseball guy in a movie? Well, no, yes, he did. In American gangster. He was like the cousin. It was going to be the pitcher for the Yankees. But, you know, that's ridiculous.

Nelly said he could play. We'll check into it. Nellie got drafted. Nellie got drafted. I've met Nellie. In the Lou. How about that? How about that?

Thank you, everyone. Happy 5th of July Big weekend. Yanks sucks. Geez. Hold on people. Like and subscribe right now. Week and a half from All-Star Game and the deadline?

Just sucks. Almost treadline season. When are the stimulation is going to start? I can't wait to hear. Hmm. Dance to that. Mm. Don't do that. Don't do that on camera.

Oh, no. That an adductor. I had my shirt off all day. That's nice.