Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - Divisional Races Starting to Tighten!

Episode Date: July 21, 2025

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Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball. It's the first Epp coming out of the All-Star break. The NL Central matters this year. Toronto, we see you, me and Trevor coming. That was a lie. Let's have a good episode. I go to Toronto. I might make Let's Have a Good episode a signature move.

Terrick Scoobel, you're out. Tyler Heineman, Homer. Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball, presented to you by Seat Geek Code Talking 2025. That is Trevor Plouffe. I am Jake Storelli. Rob Chiracco here. Molly Levy?

We've got a whole squad. This whole show is real. And it's a real couple weeks, Trev. Because if your team has a good couple weeks, you might be buying. Your team has a bad couple weeks. You might be selling. A lot of eyes, Texas, Arizona, Minnesota.

That was a political thing, right? we'll dive into all of that Bitcoin Trevor Plouf How are you coming out of the break You just did Colorado with the fam How are you? I'm doing great I'm excited to be back on the mic

With you back in Magnum Condom Studios It's nice to be home for a little bit Yeah And I don't know Was this supposed to be AI You said this show is real Like yeah We haven't transitioned over yet

But possibly We'll be out soon Um yeah A lot of good stuff happened Can't wait to hear you talk about When's your next twin series, Trev? After the deadline? Dodgers.

Oh. I'm back home. I got show hell talking in. It's a home game. My goodness. Wow. Hop off the team jet last night. Bus pulls out of the chartered station at LAX.

I have to get off the bus because my driver's waiting for me. It's kind of embarrassing. It was me. It was Thai France. It was Joe Ryan. It was Deshawn Kersey Jr. It was Hank Conger. Who do you sit with on the flight?

I sit next to Corey Provost, the play-by-play. Wow. But I move my seat and I go play cards with the coaches. Okay. Nice. Don't care. Trev, let's get into it, dude. It's, um,

yo, we're obviously as biases can be. You, you played in the show for a couple years. I've, you know, I played it as a part of all sort of like that. Dude, baseball is so hot in the streets right now. Don't talk about that because I got something coming later. Like, dude, the NL Central being arguably two of the best teams in the National League, that's like, the National League, there's a weird Jolly Alla video that's like, is the National League stronger than it's ever been?

Subscribe. Let's talk AL though, because it's Monday. And we're headed out to beautiful C.S. The Pacific Northwest, and Luis Castillo kicked it off with 6.2 shutpiece. Should he just be invited to the All-Star game every year? That was a weird thought in my head. They win that first game, 6-1. And then dramatic fashion, 11 innings in that second game.

They end up walking up. Cole Young, do we add him to any of our lists? Because he made an over-the-shoulder catch. He got the game winner there. Astros salvage it. break it open late against the Mariners bullpen. The Toronto Blue Jays, Trev. Are we ready to have a conversation?

Addison, how's your barger? Four-hit day for him. Tyler Heinenman mentioned early in the episode for good reason, because he had three RBI. And then Vladito, George Springer, and Bo Bouchet all have two hits in that final game. The Toronto Blue Jays are here and they sweep the San Francisco Giants. Wow. The Texas Rangers, they take two out of three, almost three out of three, but those tigers, man, Terek Scouble, Zach McKinstree on that final game, just making it happen and winning.

But the Tigers get the first two, Corey Seeger with the only RBI in that first game. And then Kumar Rocker basically goes, no, no. Well, he ends up giving up one hit in 6.1 innings. Routy Telez is Texas. Did you know? They hit a three-run homer. The Lioti Tavares trade that actually didn't happen with Rowdy Tell us, but did it? The Tampa Bay

Race, they continue to win. They take two out of three from Baltimore. Baltimore, I don't know. I was daydreaming a little bit about them, but they basically had to be perfect the rest of the way, and it's Jover. Rays, blow them out, 11 to 1.

Junior Caminero, 200. Homer performance coming out of the home run derby. Tage Bradley performs. I might talk Chandler Simpson later because the guy is balling out. Orioles, they salvaged the last game. Trevor Rogers, nice start. How do you like that? The A's and Guardians played.

Great. Guardians, they take the bread game. You didn't like that. You like this series, huh? I don't know. Both these teams are kind of irrelevant for me. Kurtzcom and Nick with some good games in the first two. Gavin Williams shoves on the final day to get Cleveland the series win.

The Chicago White Sox. Er? Er. Did you know? They are, our Best Western Road Warriors, brought to you by Best Western hotels and resorts. Life's a trip. The Chicago White Sox, people, they went into Pittsburgh.

How's your yinzer? And they swept them up. Jonathan Cannon seven innings of one earn-run ball Luis Robert is he still going to be there in a couple weeks Mike Talkman is he still going to be there in a couple weeks The boys balled out Chicago White Sox I don't know how much love you're getting the rest of the way but you are our best Western Road Warriors

and our final series Kansas City in Miami Did you watch? Because we did and it was electric Otto Lopez Kyle Stowers is one of the best players in baseball. The Marlins, they end up taking two out of three. You're going to hear more about Kyle Stowers later and probably more about John Rave,

all-time name and all-time game. That is what happened in the American League. Sorry, Pop, I'm all over with Jonathan Cannon's baseball reference page. He's a ball player. The ball player. I got the standings, though, and I feel like, I feel like they need the people need the standing. It's like important now.

It's important now. I feel good about that. We're going to start. Did you do the American that you did, right? We're going to start out east. It was a short one, okay? The Toronto Blue Jays. With the sweep, stay in first place,

58 and 41 for them. There are three games ahead of the Yankees who are 55 and 44. The Boston Red Sox, 54 and 47. They're 8 and 2 in their last 10. The Tampa Bay Rays, kind of on the struggle bus. Nice series for them. 52 and 48, they're 3 and 7 in the last 10. And then the Orioles, you were dreaming they were in it?

I don't know. They're 10 games under. Pop 44 and 54. Jackson Holiday, almost won them a game. It was close. He didn't. He flew out to center field. In the Central,

Twins missing big opportunity here to get back in. Just kidding. They're so far behind. The Detroit Tigers are 60 and 40. I love round numbers. They are 11 games up on the Cleveland Guardians. There's not another team over 500 in the Central. Guardians 48 and 50. Twins 48 and 51. Kansas City Royals, 48 and 52 and the White Sox. Nice sweep. 35 and 65. Out west, the Astros, hold on to the lead. Four games above the Mariners. The Ashos, 57 and 42. The Mariners, 53 and 44. The Rangers, 500, baby. 50 and 50.

We're 100 games into the season. 49 and 50 for the Angels. They're above all those American League Central teams. Get out of here. And the A's, they play in Sacramento, won't let us say that. I just said it. Sorry. 42 and 59 for them.

Now, coach, the wild card standard for the American League. The Yankees have the number one wild card seed. followed by the Mariners and the Red Sox who are tied for the second and third spot. People who have a chance. Tampa Bay Race, one and a half games out, 52 and 48. The Rangers, three and a half games out at 500.

Everybody else under 500, I'm not mentioning you. I'm sorry. And those are the standings in the American League. Thank you, Trevor. Yeah, I know we've talked about this. And, like, 50 and 50 the Texas Rangers

they have 62 games left little math, a little early nice 162 are very different numbers like the fact the all-star break the season starting earlier and where the break was this year it's like dude we call it first half

and second half that's so wrong no we should have a dedicated half way mark we should really do that as a a baseball society Like the day that splits the season and half, let's celebrate it. Treve, you're a savant. You like that. I love that.

All these leagues are, we're going to do it. Rob, write it down somewhere. Next year, the 80, the 81 game mark, we're having an office party. That's, God damn it, Trevor. You're good. I'm good. I don't people say it. I don't care what they say.

Why do people like listening to me? Sometimes I'm like, crazy, right? My imposter syndrome through the roof last night. I'm like, I didn't deserve to be on the mountain tonight, and I will be talking about him on TV. Trev, it's Nikki Cass, me, and Jenny Finch. Here's your top three of the batting order.

The whole world's fucked. I still regret my question to Shohei on the red carpet. He came out right away, caught me off guard, Zoot it I after the fact You know what like after the fact You'd like Oh I should have said this in this argument

Yeah How did I not ask show hey about Fortnite Fortnite? Fortnite Show Hey Otani Decoy Click click click click click click click click click click I'm so happy you didn't

How big was he? Big And like intimidating And he like looked me in the eye And shook my hand like a real man Wow Yeah It's the opposite

of what I'm bringing. Handsome. Trev, let's talk ball. The people have signed up for that. Thank you guys. If Trev's got imposter syndrome, imagine what I've got going on. Let's go out west,

young man. And we started with Seattle and the Houston Astros. Man, the AL West has a chance of becoming something, and it was partially because of what the Mariners did in these first two games. mentioned Cole Young in that second game with the walk-off RBI and the over-the-shoulder catch. And yeah, I just had a funny moment last night when I was going through our sheet and catching up on everything.

That I was like, like, Luis Castillo wasn't an all-star. Like, he should, he should just be there by default almost. And Cal Raleigh's all over this series, obviously him scoring on the knob ball. You want to talk about that? There's a lot of stuff that happened in this series. I mean, the game two was kind of the craziest game. We talked about Cole Young walk-up. I was there for his first ever game where he had a walk-off fielder's choice,

which is interesting. You're seeing Dillam Moore right there. Off the knob. They tried to challenge it that it was a hit by pitch, but it was like clearly a knob ball. This was also the game. The game two is also a game where Vargas ends up hitting. He had two guys, Zach Short being one of them. So they warn both sides.

Abraeu ends up hitting someone later in the game. They try to get him thrown out of the game, even though it wasn't intentional. Salano. It's a businessman ship. Like get one of the best relievers in baseball out of the game. I'm okay with it. That's just what you're supposed to do. Seattle, to me, you know, for them to go, you know, to catch Houston, it's all like the auxiliary talent has to step up.

Kanzone needs a step up. Cole Young needs to be the guy because Randy's been, Randy's been going off. lately after that first game he hits um hits the homer those 10 homers in his last 14 games for randy so he's going ballistic right now obviously you're getting an MVP year from cal who are still doing his thing you can talk as much as you want about him and hey he could be better sure but he's giving you four war seasons every freaking year like let's that's just relax with the potential to have an eight war season like it's all about um the auxiliary pieces for them can those guys step step up and and score some runs for them.

And when that happens, they're like a, they're a very formidable team. And then on the other side, the Astros just have to keep going to, like they, they're right where they need to be. Hunter Browns hasn't looked great in July, but before that was just, I think, just so good that we put him on this different pedestal. You're going to go through stretches where you have a four game rough patch. Like, he'll be fine as well. Series tied now five to five between these two teams.

meet later in September to determine, you know, a tiebreak, which could come into play. But a phenomenal scene. Seattle's so fun, man. Like, I just was in Colorado. Great crowds. Awesome. It's different. Seattle, like, they got a good team. So when they show up, it just, it means a little bit more. Yeah. Colorado has everything but the product. Do you know what they do? Okay. I don't want to get off track. No, you can do it quick because, Treve, I, I mean, I lived out there. Like it all started out there. And I, again, it was, it was beautiful baseball bliss because it's beautiful Colorado and the sun would go down over the mountains and like have a beer, watch some baseball. But if that franchise ever put together a winning team, the place would go looney tunes.

They did for a couple years in the late 20 teens. Two quick points, because we're not going to talk about it. Minnesota, Colorado. People are like applauding. Yeah. I learned that there's the big section in right field in Colorado, and they open it up like three hours before the game or something. $15 for a ticket to get in there.

You get a free beer with that ticket, and then it's $3 beers until the game starts. That's how they're getting people to come to the game. Somebody, another franchise, figure it out, dude. Offer the people, make the people feel like they're getting something by coming to a ball game, not like you're freaking robbing them blind.

This is going to be a top 10, this year because trev i'm telling you and then number two real quick talking to danie kulom i was like hey man like you you had a great inning right and he go i go what'd you think about cores and it affected your pitch he goes it's funny you ask that because me and my friends have a group chat and all we do is talk about what we would do if we were the gms of the Colorado Rockies Danny kalum you just got hired as our like pitching advisor i said you won't believe this but i also So talk a lot about what we would do. Me and my friend Jake.

Danny Kloom is perfect, too. He throws 88. Like the fact he's figured it out. Okay. Well, that's huge. We got our pitching coordinator. No, man, dude, it's in the other big thing that you're missing in that equation, the stadium location.

It's right in downtown Denver that, yes, literally, we used to go pregame. Like, you'd go to the game at seven, have a couple beers. then when the game got out of hand, you'd head to the barge because they're right there. That's awesome. Anyways. So good job, Seattle. Yeah, Seattle, it's going to be interesting. How active are they at the trade deadline?

Or do they believe in some of these young? Like, is Cole Young getting involved? Is that kind of their adding? And then it was the first time I let it leak in my head. We've talked about some of these fun divisional races. Houston has deserved their flowers. It's two out of three. It's one series.

Although, like you mentioned, five and five on the year between these two teams, they play mid to late September. So, like, let's see what's going on then. If the Mariners can reel in the Astros, which we've seen four games lead evaporate this year. And then I can't quit my Texas Rangers that, like, if the NL waste, NL West, excuse me,

NL West becomes a race, again, this baseball euphoria that I think the National League has stumbled into, the AL can have that. Yeah, I agree. I agree. Seattle needs, I would say, they're in the market for a third base and don't know if they're going to pull the trigger on that. They have nasty arms in the back end of their bullpen,

but I feel like I've seen them kind of give up leads quite a bit. So maybe they add to the bullpen as well. Which is like, dude, every freaking team. Right. I'm speaking about that. Yeah, no. I mean, the amount of bullpen movement and guys getting hurt, it's, it's insane. It's, it's, it's, again, we're having a top 10 episode today.

Like, the nostalgia of some of the old, those, like, 2000s baseball teams where I knew every guy coming out of the Red Sox bullpen. It's like, okay, here, here comes Mike used to stink. Here comes Mike Timlin, like sinker. Nobody had a good bullpen back in the day. You had one good reliever. Crazy. Trev, a team that we've been giving flowers, and I think we're personally going to give more flowers as this season rolls,

the Blue Jays have the sauce. They sweep the San Francisco Giants. They do it in every way. They score eight runs in that final game. It's Vlad. It's George. It's Bo. And we have to add Addison Barger to the equation.

We've been adding him. We've been had that. They also shot them out in the first game. Chris Bass at 6.1, 10 hits. The first pitcher since John Danks. Now we're having an episode in 2015 to give up 10 hits and not allow a run. They feel invincible right now. Yeah, I mean, because they can, we'll talk about this throughout the episode. There are certain teams that can beat you in a variety of different ways.

The Blue Jays are one of them. They can play defense. They can give you starting pitching. They have guys that can mash. And like it kind of just depends on the day. Well, who's going to show up for them. They put it on Verlander early in the game. Then you're right.

Bassett. That's game one. Then Bassett comes out, you know, pitches around some traffic. But does a good job. Bullpen comes in and gets it done. They put up 11 hits on Logan Webb, not easy to do. And then, yeah, like they, this team is getting performances by their non-stars. Addison Barger is becoming a guy guy there.

but you know I joke about Tyler Heinenman because he's my buddy but dude he's hitting almost 400 it's 85 at bats but he it's like a huge insurance homer in this game and it it's like becoming a thing who did that for you guys the Yankees one year old guy played first base Matt carpenter yeah just came in and just like whenever he played he was the second best hitter in the league when he played insane I mean look what he's doing he's one he's close to one dotting it shout out I mean that's the that's the that's the kind of baseball that you have to play if you want to you know be a premier team in a league and they're they're doing that I mean will Wagner a couple of huge games here again auxiliary piece is performing

and then in the last game you get the big dogs you got gladied Homer you got George Springer Homer Boba Shet two four the double two doubles and two RBIs like they're like this is the formula coach yeah they the energy has completely flipped. Another unit that deserves a ton of credit is the bullpen. Again, when looking back at last year's stats, because this Toronto team, and talking baseball listeners will give me credit,

and this is my imposter syndrome showing a little bit, because Twitter's one of the most toxic places ever right now. You've been out of that time on Twitter. Yeah, it is what it is. You know, heavy is the crown. This Toronto team has always had appeal to me, And when I looked at last year's stats, their bullpen was awful, horrific. One of the worst in baseball.

This year, their third in whip, six in ERA, second in K per nine, second in hit per nine. That's not the difference because obviously their first in batting average, which that still matters to me, second and on base. Their lineup is a bunch of pests. It doesn't stop. This Toronto team's really fun. And I, that, the bullpen changing, I think, has changed the whole energy of the team. You feel in games.

You feel, um, Yankees heading up to Toronto, Trev. Um, it's going to be a fun three games. Some, not playoff baseball, but competitive division baseball. Baseball's doing so good. Shout out David Popkins. Oh. Left. fired by the twins goes to Toronto now leading one of the best offenses in baseball.

Interesting. That's got to feel good, right? Robbie Ray, Velo, down. Scared about that. Giants get swept. They fought back in that final game, but they don't get it done. Interesting trade deadline team as well.

Trev, Detroit and the Texas Rangers. Texas Rangers on everyone's watch list to see where they'll be at come the deadline. They take the first two. It would have been great to have three, but they ran into Terrick Scoobal. And just, okay, I didn't know how I was going to reveal.

this to the people. I tweeted out last night because I was being shifty. I was watching ball. It's been a crazy week or so. I put I put 20 bucks on the Detroit Tigers to win the World Series. I don't know how much I believe in it. I think in the American League, I believe in it. And it's not a hot take. Like first team to 60 wins. But Trev, watching last night's game, A, they have the bad man in Terrick Scoobble. Like, what he is doing right now? I don't know. DeGrom, when he was at his peak, like that's what it feels like.

And his one-earn run comes on a wild pitch from Tyler Holton, our guy. I don't know, man. I just, I like believing in sports. And when I see this Tigers team, man, they just, they are out there to win. Like, they don't care who does it. Like, some of the dumb sports things, this Tigers team had. that like scoble was

A, Hinch pushes him to 100, 400, 105 pitches or whatever it is that I think Hinch was getting nervous about not taking him out. But Scuba was also like hyped that he stayed in, also hyped to give the ball to Tyler Holt. And like, there's just little dumb stuff like that

that I think matters. All that being said, the Rangers win an important series is they're trying to not sell. I mean, Corsi, you're absolutely doing it right now. Huge series for him. Patrick Corbyn is like given the Rangers a chance to win. We know the pitching has been great for them.

And like adding Corbyn to that is just, I think that shows that like, hey, maybe they're figuring out in the pitching category. You bring a guy like that over who, you know, over the last, he had a good start to his career, goes to the nationals not so hot there. But if you're finding a way to make him serviceable and more so, I think that's a testament to what they're doing with their, you know, pitching lab. I think that's what everyone calls on nowadays.

I don't know why. Silly. Yeah, so Siger, huge, he gets a hit off Canley, rakes against scoble as well. I mean,

you have that guy, you know, obviously in the middle of your offense. And we mentioned Routty coming over, big homer there. He looks good in tech. He looks good in any uniform. Yeah.

I'm in for that. Kumar with a good start. Did you, you miss this Chris Martin joke? Oh, Trev. That's three days ago, bro. You could have said Chris Martin ruined it again. Yeah.

Who got the knockoff Chris Martin? For the Tigers to salvage the series. The CEO of Astronomer. Matt Veerling. It was Matt Veerling. I was happy for you, which is so dumb. Which is so dumb. I'm watching the game.

I'm happy for you. And it was just the beautiful part of that. What, Jake? Beautiful. Tell me. God damn it. The beautiful part of that. Matt Veerling has been hurt for the first half.

His stats when he's played have been bad. That it was just a good reminder. I know we just poo-poohed on the second half being the second half because it's a third of the season. But like, what if Matt Veerling is great in the second half? And it's really this blind, fake thing we've made up. But you know baseball players? Like, it's very real. You come out and you have a big series this weekend

And you're like, I'm going to have a big second half Second half means way more than the first half to a baseball player Because that's what teams remember That's what players, that's what everybody remembers Right first half great dude Hey, you might have made the All-Star team But you sucked in the second half Yeah

That's the only saving grace of having a great first half Is I made the All-Star team Got that notation on my baseball reference page can say I was an all-star for the rest of your life. That's awesome. But second half is, I think, what truly matters, you're going to the off-season, having a great momentum, whatever it is.

They don't even need Veerling to be great in the second half. You know, they, more so than anybody, maybe them and the brewers, like they just, they know what they're supposed to do. And I don't know if that's A.J. Hinch, like, saying, this is your role. go to your fucking role or not. But like they know what they know what they're supposed to do.

Like they have an identity. Trev, us like everyone else is trying to figure out how to give credit to managers. I don't know how to do it, but I think AJ Hinch does that whole team feels so prepped. And yet again, it feels dumb because like, okay, I think you could have managed pretty well last night if you went scubel to Holton to Vest. Like, so again, that's, where the line gets blurry, but yet every guy that comes to the plate, even though they're not some of the best hitters in the game, like, they have the right intentions. And I don't know,

man, like, I thought they should have lost last night's game. Like, the Texas Rangers, Jacob Lats, gives them a good performance. They survive Scoobel. They get the run on the pass ball. Like, you did it. Like, you survived. Like a UFC fight when a guy's getting beat up, but then they come back up for air and the other person's gassed. Like, that's what it should have been last night. But the Detroit Tigers win games, and Texas has kind of struggled with that. So I don't know.

I also, you know, my gambling and placing a bet on that, I think that Detroit Tigers have a fantastic shot to win the American League. Yeah, what were the odds? It was plus 750, dude. Like, I think they're technically the, like, fourth best or in that area. But in the American League right now, like, Toronto's, awesome and let's see where they land the ship.

The Yankees have clear flaws. Let's see how they treat the deadline. And the AOS still has to be sorted out. We like Houston, but that narrative can change really quickly. The Tigers have run it the whole way. They are in a rough patch right now, and that was another reason I placed the bet. That's when you get the odds right, Trev, you know?

Let's move on. Tampa and the Orioles. What do you have? Well, let me get some of my notes. I'm sorry. I mean, I don't have a lot on this. I mean, Tampa, let's see. First game, Tampa obviously rolls.

Caminaro two homers, 11, 11 to 1. They get to Charlie Morton, Todge Bradley, with a nice start there. They take, they go ahead on an error by Ryan O'Hern. You know, so like, look, fundamental baseball. I can play that he's got to make, like a spin throw to home. It's a forceout. Like, just zoos it.

nobody behind the catcher because the pitcher is going to cover first base. So another run scores like fundamental baseball sometimes has alluded the ball. Not sometimes. A lot of times has eluded the Baltimore Orioles this year. I mentioned Jackson Holiday had a chance to head a go ahead Homer in the ninth in that game and flies out to the warning track. So that was tough for them. And they salvaged the last game. Razor, you know, they're three and seven in the last 10.

after I think they were on a huge heater before that so they're they're still they're still in the mix and for them it's yeah like caminero has to be hot uh yondi had a he had a grand slam in that first game as well they need to have him going i love that has on kim is back for uh yeah for Tampa he went two for three in the second game so I'm in I'm still in on the race commonero uh this is a a random stat with cool names The fourth player to record multiple homers in the first game after participating in the home run derby. So that's a lot of, that's a lot of word salad. But him, Soto, Pooleholz, and Ken Griffey Jr.

That's, I'll take that list. Can we not send Chandler Simpson down anymore? I, uh, Trev, I've decided I'm giving him my award later. Tees. Okay. And Orioles, you're, you're so dead. And Grayson Rodriguez shut down again. Like, I'd, again, I, again, I,

doing this little bit of like, come on, come on. I'm over it. Sorry, Orioles. I'll be honest, Trev. A's guards, I don't have a lot. I'm not locked into both of those teams right now. I kind of want to give the White Sox some flowers, and you and I are both yoked on Royals Marlins. A's Cleveland. Yeah, we're going to give some stuff to them later.

Congrats, Sprint Rochery, is 100th home run. Welcome to the club. Yeah. Yeah, it's a big club. It actually is a big club. Are you guys friends? Yeah. Yeah, Minnesota.

Like, Brent Rooker. Okay. More than anybody deserves flowers for what happened to him at the All-Star game. Oh, wow. All-Star game, Homer, and Derby. You're not. You're not. Lost to Cal Ralea.

What was that wink? A million dollars on the line. Why'd you just wink? Because it was fake. we're going to stat cast it. Did they explain the rules to everybody? Our new bosses at MLB are going to be so mad at you. Hey, hey, guess what?

I got some nice things to say about them later. Got some bad things to say about them later. It's kind of how it works. This is journalism, people. No, but then he goes and has a great, like, the redemption arc for Brent Rooker's All-Star Week was awesome. You get, you know, whatever. Got Raleigh, I get it.

I don't really get it. But then you come back, you hit a big homer in the game. Then you're in the swing off and you hit two. Yeah. Love me some Brent Rooker. And you know what? His swing is gorgeous. Yeah, it is.

It is. It's tougher. It's so much harder for a righty swing to be gorgeous, but his swing is. Okay. Shout out Gavin Williams. He can be the nastiest pitcher in the big leagues at times. Cleveland guard dogs. I don't know what to say about the A.L. Central, man.

They're out, bro. They're out. You don't really deserve any love. Although they've been winning some games lately. I don't know. They're out until they're in. Like, that's... I think more people need to talk about Nick Kurtz.

Are you talking about him later? Kurtz comma Nick. He's just really good. Like, it's... I gave my speech. I forget if it was two or three episodes ago, but like, it's really cool when you see someone on the hype wagon of baseball.

Um, because we got the, uh, look at that play. It's a great play. It's a great play right there. That's not his, that's not his game. That's not his calling card. I just think it's cool when like all the press prospect people at the same time were like, yo, Kurtzcoma Nick is a guy. And dude, he's got 18 homers this year.

Like I, one of my favorite, he's got a 949 OPS coach. One of my favorite. Elite territory. And Rob, if you could bring up his baseball reference picture, um, listed 65240, which like that's a beast. His picture is giving, what's the show with 11 and the kids are all aliens and stuff?

Stranger Things. He looks like the kid from Stranger Things, when he should look like the most intimidating guy in baseball. I mean, that's... What kid from Stranger Things? Like the main kid. I watched that show, then I got over it. Yeah, I did the same thing.

it lost me when they had that Joe Ryan lifeguard character. Shout out Joe Ryan. Shout out Joe Ryan. Very hot. And we had a nice handshake, and he followed me on Instagram. Nobody gives a shit, Jake.

White Sox, last team to get a sweep this year. Jonathan Cannon. You're in. You're in. You're in on it. Hey, man, if you, again, I'm a believe in sports person. I'm going to make that a shirt.

I'm going to talk to the designers. I believe in sports. Hasn't Adrian Houser been absolutely filthy as well for them? Great. The White Sox met Friday before their... The White Sox met Friday before their second half began and talked about holding themselves accountable on, quote, unquote, some things going forward. Okay.

Hold on. Okay. I mean, that's fine. Okay. Jonathan Cannon, sevenings pitch, one run run. Adrian Houser goes four and a third, not great. Three and runs, 10 hits, but he's been better. And then Savaldi goes six innings, zero earned runs for them.

Do any teams need pitching? Every team needs pitching. Is Edgar Caro a top 10 catcher for you next year? Thoughts? Oh, wow. No, there's a lot of good catchers in the league. He might be. He's good.

Tyler Heineman. Show me your Heineman. Marlins Royals, Trev. I have an award coming from that series as well. But it was electric, bro. I do think it was electric. Great. I asked you this before this episode.

I said, do you know the Marlins record since June 6? And the answer was no, I guess. And you said fucking like 16 and 9. Not enough games. Pop, love you so much. Bad math. 23 and 14, coach.

Nine games over five. Like, Stowers has been great for them. Otto Lopez, moves the shortstop, can pick it. One of the best defenders in the game right now. Yuri Perez is nasty. Liam Hick.

Tony Bender in the pen. Like they got guys. And the Royals are also, let's just give flowers to both these teams. I don't know if they really deserve it, but I'm going to take out the Royals June, which I think they won 8 and 18. Just had a horrendous June.

They've had a good season besides that horrible. I know you can't do that. It's cherry pick, and I get it. But I think they're better than their record indicates. Also, Kendri Tariot, remember the name. Wow. Otto Lopez with the...

He's in the Arizona League right now, but he's like, got 30Ks to one walk. They love this guy. Like that. Otto Lopez breaking open the game. I've done it before. Like, everyone,

you know, the internet's a weird place. It's a weird time to be alive if we're just being real at this part of the show. Miami should be the number one baseball city in the country, and we've just ignored it because the franchise hasn't been treated that way. Not me, Peter Bendix. Not me.

They, um, there's... It was me. It was Peter Bendix. There's parts of East Dallas that I'm known as Tony Bender. Let's do a little national... Let's do a little national league. I mean, how have we not? The Milwaukee Brewers. I can't wait to Brewer and Cub with you, dude.

Netflix and Chill, Brewer and Cub. The Brewer sweep the Dodgers. Quinn Priester, six innings, Shup Piece. Caleb Durbin, my short king in that game. Isaac Collins, Brewer player generator. He has a big game in number two,

and then and number three. They get the sweep. The Brewers, man. Clayton Kershaw, coming off the mound. Not happy. Yo, watch out for. that. Mookie Betts' stats on the year.

Plufian. Brewer sweep, Dodgers. What is up? Baseball's a funny sport. This is bad for everyone in a way. The Arizona Diamondback sweep the St. Louis Cardinals. And it's on the back of Gino because he goes to Homer game. And then he goes to Homer game again. You just Kirkgined right there.

I am Kirkajun. Oh, that turned into Yoda. The Arizona dimebacks, they sweep the St. Louis Cardinals. I guess in a way, that's good for some trading teams. These snakes have a little bit of fight. Trev, interesting couple weeks coming up for them. The Chicago Cubs take two out of three from the Boston Red Sox. Red Sox winning street comes to an end.

All-Star break at a bad time for them. Cubs take the first two. They shut out the Red Sox, one run in the first two games. Imanaga, Colin Reya. Ray. Red Sox Salvage series, Willier Abray you two Homer game? Go look at his season stats.

And Garrett Crochet, new friend of the program. One of the biggest creatures I've ever met. Why was he so nice to us? So nice. Really weird. We'll talk about that. We won't.

Angels, take two out of three from the Phillies. Should we be talking more Angels? I don't know. Kyle Schwarber in that second game, Homer, four RBIs, A grand slam. That changed that one. Otherwise, it was all Halos, baby. You want to see someone turn on a ball? Go see Lamont Wade Jr.'s homer in that third game. You won't. You won't. You won't. Yankees take two out of three from the Braves. Things are dark. They lose game one. Bullpen day out of the break.

What? They're down five-nothing in that second game. They have one of their best comebacks of the year, and then they win on that final game. Marcus Stroman looked good for the Yanks. Haven't heard that in a minute. Padres take two out of three from the Nationals. Does Ryan Cohn have a horseshoe up his bum? He catches the Mani Machado Grand Slam. He drops his key card to Jeremiah Estrada. What is happening? Everything's fake.

The whole world is fake, except the Padres take two out of three. Tim Kirkagin adopt me. The Reds take two out of three from the Metropolitan's. They took the first two games. Ladolo, Nick Martinez, and they get some contribution from the corner outfield. Austin Hayes and Jake Fraley both bring it. Mets end up salvaging the series. David Peterson is unhittable, so that's a good update.

And Trev, you mentioned it, and we said we won't talk about it. The Rockies took two out of three from the Twins. What the heck? Kyle Freeland pitched really well. Jordan Beck, Mickey Moniac, Ryan McMahon. Go Rockies, go. Joe Ryan, the only man that could stop the bleeding. That is what happened in the National League.

Mickey Moniac, go look at his stats since George's. June. I think he's OPS only behind like Otanian judge or maybe it's above them. I don't know. It's crazy. And Trev, while you get the standings up, because I know you're prepared. While you get the standings up. Again, it's a war rant for a different day. But like I saw Patrick Corbyn before has like 0.5 war. 18 starts of 390RA. That's just wrong. Know how many teams would kill for that? Anyways, give us the standings. Okay. Thank you. Pop. In the National League, we're going to start. Let's start.

Oh, I got the wild card up. That's tough for me. Let's start out east. Where are the Philadelphia Phillies have a half game lead over the Mets. 56 and 43 for them, 56 and 44 for the Mets. The Marlins, hard charging Marlins. Just gave a lot of love to them and Peter Bendix. 46 and 52.

Braves not happening this year. It's over brought a little bit. Yeah. It's over. I don't think it's enough. Nice throw, Ronald, though. 43 and 55 Nationals, 39, 60. In the Central, we got a dead heat coach. 59 and 40 for the Cubs.

59 and 40 for the Brew. Tied at the top of the division. That is sexy, sexy, sexy. 52 and 48 for the Reds. There's seven and a half games back. 51 and 49 for the Cardinals, who are three and seven in the last 10, eight and a half games back, and the Pirates, 39 and 61.

the Dodgers lead down to three and a half. 58 and 42 for them, the Padres on their heels, 54 and 45, the Giants, 52 and 48. Somehow like they just, they're on an L5. I feel like they're never a great team. Sometimes I think they're a bad team, but they're still four games over 500. I don't know, 52 and 48 for them. The dimebacks, 50 and 50. What's going to happen out there?

What do you, Mike Hazen, just come on, man. Don't be toying with the people. We get leveraged play. I understand what's going on. The Rockies, 24 and 75. And they just won the series against the twins? We'll talk about the Rockies. In the wild card, Jake, I know that's what you want.

Well, either the Cubs or the Brewers has the top spot, depending on what happens today, followed by the Mets and the Padres. And then there's a bunch of teams that have a chance here. The Reds, two and a half games out. The Giants, two and a half games out. The Giants, two and a half. games out. The Cardinals three and a half games out.

The Diamondbacks, I'll talk about them because they're at 500, four and a half games out for them. Everybody else, I'll see you in Cabo. The standings in the National League. Those standings were brought to you by Caldera Lab. Fellas. Skincare matters.

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Under 25, do what you've got to do. After that, let's get on it, people. Crazy. Trev, we're in deep here. that as baseball media men, I think the topic in the National League, and I'll go Chris Rose on you. This National League, before the season,

we talked about how good it is, how deep it is, the NL West, the NL East, the two best teams are in the NL Central right now. The Cubs came on the scene this year, and we wondered if it was their year, and it is. Like Kyle Tucker, PCA has gone nuts.

they have their own pitching lab of sorts. The Cubs have been electric. The Brewers were not. For a month and a half or so, we wondered if Pat Murphy was going to steer this team into the ground. Like it felt like the tough JV coach. He didn't steer them in it. He wanted to bury them in the ground.

He wanted to kill every player on the team. Was waiting for the post that Pat Murphy has the team running polls, like after the game. Instead, they've turned into tie. for the best team in the National League. The National League was supposed to be one of the best most competitive deep seasons we've seen.

And that was without the Central. And now the two best teams are in the Central. I don't think, I mean, I think everyone thought the Cubs were going to be good this year. Brewers, no, but the people that are smart in baseball knew that it's the Brewers, okay? Like, they're going to figure it out, they have the identity, all that stuff.

I don't know where do you want to start. You want to start with the Brewers? Sure. Let me get my notes. They sweep the Dodgers, yeah. They have dominated the Dodgers. Now, they caught the Dodgers on a real tough patch, but doesn't matter. You go into L.A.

After the All-Star break, Dodgers are thinking, hey, second half is going to be different. No, it started off the same. They've been down, and they haven't hit it all. Some of the numbers since Max Muncie has gone down are pretty crazy. You mentioned Mookie Bettsy. Yeah. Offensive numbers. Otani's been struggling as well

I know he had some homers this series but they are a team offensively that's just ain't happening right now that's crazy because they put up a seven and a five in this in this series but for the Brewers I mean it's the same thing that we always talk about with them

they know how to win baseball games and they can do it in a variety of different ways you talk about Isaac Collins being like a player generate Minnesota boy he's a stunt they they get athletes on to their team, but not just like super, super raw. It's like they hunt baseball players.

Caleb Durbin is a baseball player, not considered an athlete probably in any other sport. Oh. No offense, but he's a ball player. Like drafting Sal Freelik in the first round is nuts. A little bit. But like, he's a baseball player. So like athletic ball players is what they do. And then, yeah, they can do the pitching thing.

They got the lab going. Quinn Priester, out of boy. Shout out coach ball game. It's super impressive, man. And they got, you know, they do well in trades. They do well in their draft. They've, they develop. Like, everything is going well for the brewers right now.

And every single year, we're like, oh, well, you just traded this guy away. Like, what are they going to do? It's like, no, dude. Like, they trade him away because they have a pipe of. line of players coming up. Whether you, you, Keith Law, want to rank them high or not. I don't even know what their farm systems ranked. They don't care about that.

They operate as a completely separate entity. They think they're smarter than everybody else because their front office is. It's, Trev, maybe it's an offseason episode we can unpack with front offices or minor

league systems. When Treeser struck out 10 guys on 77 pitches. That they're doing something better than so many organizations. This is going to seem disconnected at first, watching some Astros Mariners this weekend. I saw Bryce Matthews make an incredible play at second base, and this is a little bit dark Yankee thoughts,

but it seems like every player that comes up with the Astros can make that play, and it seems like every player that comes up with the Yankees can't make that play. And that's scouting, that's development, and it matters so much. Rob had it ready, and I didn't even tell them. Let me tell you something. Tell me.

I truly believe the game is going to start going back to this. We are now, in every single sport almost, I don't think football, basketball and baseball, definitely. It's become a stat cast generation where to get looks, and I'm not blaming the kids. Yeah. To get looks, you have to measure out in, something one thing has to be great one thing will get you notice i can throw the shit out of the ball i can hit the ball really hard or i'm really fast great but can you fucking play the game

isn't that the whole thing like the smart teams are going to go back to baseball players like yeah hey do you want guys that can like have great bat speed and can run and can throw hard sure but like make sure they can also play the game because we're not teaching fundamental baseball in the minor leagues. I promise you that, dude. I promise you it's not happening. I know. So you need to have guys, like, you need ballplayers. And the brewers, I think, have, like, figured that out. Like, you guys, you guys go get the six, eight guys that can wow you out of, at a, at a, uh, a, uh, a, uh, a scouting event. And we're going to go trade for Caleb Durbin, because he's a ball player. Well, South Freed, like, he's a ball player. Like, that's what they're thinking. Yeah. And it's

paying off. And look, guess what? Another reason they do it, those guys don't cost as much. Right. So it's, it's coming back to that. And I think you, if you watch the Brewers play, you're like, oh, those are baseball players. Treve, it's, it's kind of mind-numbing that like, that's the essence of sports. Like I, I can put two, six, two people on a basketball court, and one of them can be so much better at basketball that baseball, that baseball, same concept, and we've gone away from that a little bit with Exit Velo and Trev, I got old man mad on the couch last night that teams don't believe in a two-strike approach.

Like, part of the job of being a hitter is to not get out. And with two strikes, the formula changes. And teams pretend that doesn't exist. And that's insane. That's why our team's going to run the world. I'll tell you what, after saying all that, The brewers are definitely down for freaks on the mound. Yeah, I mean, you said the 6-8 thing,

and literally Mizorowski was like the story of baseball. Oh, I mean, their whole Yerebe is huge. McGill is huge. They're down for freaks because they can teach them on the mound, but also Quinn Priester. Right. Also fastball Freddy. You can think about stuff.

But on the field, definitely is ball players. Ball players matter. Another shirt idea. Oh, my God. Andrew Vaughn. Ball player. Ball player. Andrew Vaughn does not approve that picture.

And for our Rocky team. Oh, my God. Is that AI? Laughing at Andrew Vaughn. You know what? My hair's thinning. Like, I'm not going to be shy, but that's... It's sweaty.

That is... The Brewers had the best record in baseball since May 25th. 32 and 12. Suck on that, Marlins. A week from today. the crew and the Cubs play, which should be just amazing. Dude,

if you're a reality TV star, hey, for anyone who's suffering through their husband or boyfriend that listens to this and you are the shrapnel that has to listen to our voices, the reality TV show

that is the Cubs and the Brewers next week with Craig Counsel and Pat Murphy and the Cubs front office and like how the brewers operate, That is so... That's juicy, man. Sports are the best reality TV. I will say that.

Two more quick notes on that. Caleb Durbin last 27 games. 372. 444 for the 956 OPS. Also, since Max Muncie, I mentioned that since he's gone down. 2.82 runs? The Dodgers? Any Dodger concern?

No. Is the Kirshar? thing anything that's just or is that just a old dog competing yeah okay every team plays bad ball no doubt about it made a bunch of errors behind him this is what I think dude I'm gonna call these games flex they're throwing otani

Yamamoto and Tyler Glass now and no offense to our guys we're throwing David Festa simeon Woods Richardson and I believe Chris Paddock like they're gonna be fine it's a different brand um shout out our guys

young guys Sim pitching really good as of wait that's huge the Dodgers pitching has been bad this year bullpen's been interesting little bit of the elephant in the room

20th and starting pitcher ERA 24th and bullpen ERA what they've had some injuries some interesting stuff going on but yeah I mean they it's we say that and then look at the record they're two games

behind the best record in baseball. Like it's, they're very hard to put a finger on the Dodgers. They have the most runs scored, which that helps. Treve, we have absolutely cooked. I guess, and Cubs Red Sox thoughts. I know I tried to pair the Cubbies and the Brewers

up. What do I have on the Cubs Red Sox? I'm a big Red Sox guy, as you know. Right. I didn't the Cubs are really hard. What's the, record at home. I feel like they're really hard to beat. Oh, interesting. I feel like they're really hard to beat at home. Suzuki in that first game. Obviously a huge homer early against our guy. G. Alito

kind of holds up throughout the game. It's Colin Ray has a nice start. Bullpen comes in, does their thing. Second game was like Cubs porn. Shoda's nasty. And then you have a homer from Michael Bush, Kyle Tucker, PCA, Ian Hap, and even Shaw gets in on the action there. So like, That's everything. Yeah, it's what you want. Red Sox come out. Our best friend, Garrett Crochet, shuts the Cubs offense down. Fine.

Like, that's going to happen. But yeah, I mean, I think the Cubs are difficult to be. I think the Cubs are difficult to be anyway, but I think they're difficult to be to home. Little Red Sox love. Well, hey, how about Cora was at the Cold Play concert? That was a fun interview. Yeah. We're not doing that.

Do you know how many homers, Wheelyer, Bray, who has on the air? who hit two in the last game, I believe, right? Yeah. 20? He has 20 home runs. Nailed it. That guy. They're fascinating to me at the trade deadline.

Red Sox might be, we're talking about the dyingbacks being fascinating. Cardinals. I think the Red Sox maybe are the most interesting team to me at the trade deadline. I think egos matter. And if you're Craig Breslo and the heat you've gotten for trading Rafi Devers and your team went on this winning streak, they're 12 and 3 in July, I think they have to add.

If they sell another piece, like Craig Bresso can't walk around Boston if he does that. Like, genuinely. They have to trade away somebody good. They're not trading for prospects. Like, they're trading for major league town. So you're going to have to give away somebody either at the major league level. You have this logjam of outfielers.

Like, you'd have to give away one of those guys, whether it's a willier, whether it's a Duran. I mean, they have so many of these young major league talented players. It's going to be an ad, but you're also going to be giving away a player that somebody in the fan bases loves. Is this deadline going to be good or awful? Trade deadline? Yeah. Good.

It has a recipe for good. It also has a recipe. We are deep in. We got to get to the game. I know, Trev. I'll honestly, I'm going to punt to you. And I know this is your least favorite thing, but, I mean, anything, I mean, D-backs, Yanks, Braves, go check out talking Yanks. Padres take two. Reds take two. You're cooking for three minutes. Okay. Let's go down the line here. Angels shout out. They're like back in it, man. Like, is it the Swilly effect? No idea. You missed your flight, swilly. How about that? I mean, game one was awesome for the,

if you're an Angels fan, game one got you fired up. Philly's out to a 4-1 lead. Then you have Adele with the homer. Taylor Ward's got a bunch of, I think both them have 20 homers on the year, just kind of like sneaky, trout with the RBI.

Kenley gets the save there in Philadelphia. Awesome to see that. Then you have the Schwabber and, you know, Bryce Harper game in game two. And then you just put it on them. You put it on Philly in Philly take two of three went eight to two in that last game.

So I think the Angels are feeling good and I guess they're an interesting team. I've called for Tori Hunter to be their manager next year. The interest in see if that comes to fruition. They also signed Eddie Wardato's son to a undrafted free agent deal.

So that's interesting. Shout out Jacob. Yeah. Angels, make me love you. Can be into that. Your Yankees and Braves, you don't, that's kind of your thing. Yankees had an awesome comeback. They were playing that horrible World Series defense that everyone talked about for an offseason

and base running and the Acuna throw. But their offense can bang, man. It's just, for me, I think what people should know about the Yankees, their needs couldn't be more clear at the trade deadline. It is third base and it is two pitchers. Sloppy defense from the Yankees. I'd rather not talk about it, if I'm being honest. But they won the series and we're heading up to Toronto and let's see.

Yeah, that's a huge game two. Huge. Huge game two. We were on really scary watch and the Yankees somehow won the series, which honestly might be more of a reflection on the Braves year. Padres at Nats. Oh, okay. Okay.

Padres win the series. first game looks like a blowout but it wasn't manny machado hits the grand slam to kind of make it a blowout but the ice deez two first and third bunts in that game executed perfectly and that got me hot

I believe he did he tie the game with one or do you go the go ahead run with one let me see this real sorry go ahead run in the ninth after doing it in the seventh inning as well to put them up to nothing and then Machado puts the cherry on top there It's kind of all I got from that one.

Go Ryan Cohn, go. So Ryan Cohn caught the Mani Machado Grand Slam? How come I didn't know that? Yeah, man. He got tickets with his buddies and they were right next to the bullpen and somehow he got the ball. I don't know.

Rob and Molly were in the room with me this morning as I was trying to process it and I just don't know the line with him between luck or putting yourself in position. to be successful. He's the number one Padres fan I've ever met, and he went to... Positive vibes. Positive vibes attract positive things.

I'm down for that. And that last game, McKenzie Gore gets hit around. We're going to hear more about Nick Pavetta later. So Padres take two out of three. Stay right there with Dodgers. Love that for them. Reds. Did we not talk about Cardinals, Arizona?

Not really, man. You seem so mad at us, Jake. We've been everywhere. I mean, again, they're a team that literally everyone is watching. Our trade episode, which bangs every year, shout out to everyone. You know, half of it was Diamondbacks, and they just swept, and they're not a bad team. I guess that's where I say my recipe for the deadline. This team could ruin the recipe real quick.

Yeah, Gino's like the, Gino's the eye or the... Okay. I don't know what I'm trying to say. Everyone wants Gino, but then he's just... going off here. Diamondback's kind of back in it. That's interesting to me. Fought with a really nice start here in the game one. Eight of nine starters had a hit. So that's sexy.

Got to love that. They absolutely roll get all over Sunny in game two. Merrill Kelly is like he like people want him to and he has a nice start there in that last game. So Cardinals man like they're

still treading water still in it. This obviously does not help their case at all. Those snakes go. I know Dalton Feeley was in the house. He's undefeated when he's in the building. So shout out our guy, Dalt. That's pretty cool for him.

Quick on the Reds and Mets. What do I got? Oh, Mania returned. Yeah. That's sick. I like that's really good for the Mets. They need that. The pitching has not been there for the Mets.

He looked really good. But Cincinnati scored in the fourth, the fifth, the sixth, the seventh, and the eighth in that game one. That turns me on a little bit. Crazy game and game two. Mets end up being one for 10 with a hundreders in scoring position. Game one, Lindor has a chance to win it in the ninth. Pops up.

Game two, Pete Alonzo, Juan Soto, and him come up with a chance to tie it in the ninth. Don't get the job done. Soto hits the foul homer. Everyone's going crazy. He ends up striking out on a check swing. So not great for the Mets. And then they win that last game behind a great start by Peterson. been that there was a

stat we had on our sheet, the only person, only pitcher for the Mets to go into the sixth inning. Hold on, let me get it up. Why can't I find it? I believe David Peterson is the only guy to go into the sixth inning for the Mets since like June.

Oh, the last 40 games. Yes. Last 40 games. That's insane. That's crazy. That messes up. That messes up your whole team. New pitching lab. Yeah. it's in the air now and then

I'll ask thing before we get into the second half of the show twins I'll say this I'm not going to talk of the twins good they don't deserve it

right now Brockies though not as bad as their record indicates at least they didn't play that bad defense was incredible Tovar's back

I think that helps the first four in their lineup I like dude Mickey Moniac's having a great season Hunter Goodman the All-Star someone showed me a picture of him at Media Day. He was sitting there

and nobody was talking to him. I feel so bad. I talked to him. I talked to him. Josh Jollinson lookalike. Noppel Ganger. Oh, interesting. Okay.

I'm telling you, man, go watch the swing, everything. Jordan Beck, I think you'd be into him. I am. Had it up tall guy, like had a really nice series. And then Ryan McMahon can play some D.

Is he going to be traded? Not so sure. So, like, I think they're, they're not going to break the record. Like, they're, the pitching is, Not great. The bullpen actually has, like, crazy arms, but they're just so erratic.

That's my rant. Two out of three from the twins. Did you say tat-ed-up tall man, so I'd like him? Yeah. You're into that. Peter Moylan, in. Yeah. Good scene, Pete.

Let's, let's, we got a, we got to go. Chris Rose is going to be so mad at you. Standout performances. It's time for stand-out. Stand-out. Stand-out. Standout performances. Standout performances.

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Four years, $55 million for a starting pitcher. Think about that, people. What's the math on that? 13. Oh. 14, 13 and a half, whatever the hell it is. Sure. For a starting pitcher, who's now 10 and 2,

has given you 12 quality starts out of 20. He's got a 281 ERA. His whip is now under 1. A sub 1 whip gets me going, Pop. So Nick Povetta gets my standout. He ends up going, six things pitch only one earned run one walk five k's against the nationals but i'm calling it the deal of of the offseason it truly he's got a three six war on the year like this guy steal steal

the offseason plus shout out nick paveta full pension pit he uh he looked really good too he was like having fun on the mound he was smiling at different points and it's got to be you be smiling to you're absolutely dealing. It's got to be a good feeling when you're being that level of dominant. Did you know his nickname or his middle name is John Carlo, but like not like John Carlo, J-O-H-N, C-A-R-L-O? I did not know that. Never seen John Carlos spell like that. That's Canada for you, baby.

Oh, that's right. Okay. When you say it's Canada, it just kind of makes anything makes sense. You're like, oh, all right, yeah. Pivotta, when wins you. used to matter the fourth NL pitcher to record 10 wins this season. Go Padres, go. Go make the NL West

a race. I'm talking about the AEL West. We're going to be sitting here in October. Podgers are going to be in it. We're like, are the Padres the best team in the National League? Bucket. We get, we're trying to limit our excitement around the trade deadline while also getting excited.

Like, what are those? You know what? Cover the kids' ears. What are those fuckers going to do? Because I don't run. You got Ryan Cohen. You got Ryan Cohen positive dude. And then this guy, Padres blogger who I follow on Instagram, he's a psycho. Cohen's a psycho. We need to get them in the same room together.

Padres Cohen's a different cat. Like the energy between those two guys, you know, you always say F or F. Like Ryan Cohen's a sweet man, but he sees Clayton Kershaw on the mound and he, he, like, wishes the things I wouldn't say upon him. So I'd rather not. Great standout, Trev, your guy, Piv. Team 8? Yeah. I'm going with Kyle Stowers.

Like I mentioned, the Miami, Kansas City series this weekend was just an electric factory. The back and forth of it all, there was a pitch clock violation argument, and then Otto Lopez hits one in the gap. The announcers, like, take that pitch clock. It was crazy. But Marlins' piece. People should be excited. And this guy is the reason.

Trev, because we talk about how stats aren't all-encompassing. One of the better ones is OPS. We reference it a lot. Because here are your league leaders in OPS. Aaron Judge. I think we all agree he's pretty good. Shohei Otani. I think everyone's on the same page on that.

Cal Raleigh, yep. Will Smith. Yep. Have a season, kid. Kyle Schwarber, yep. And then it's Kyle Stowers. Number 6th in all of baseball in OPS. He's above...

How much do we talk about Eohenio Suarez? Partially because of trade, but partially because he's insane at how he's playing baseball this year. He also came out that's not trading Stowers, so that's good. Stowers is ahead of Suarez, ahead of Catelle-Marte,

ahead of Byron Buxton. He's sixth in all of baseball. and he's gone nuts, Trev. He had his last game going into the break was a three homer game. His first game coming out of the break was a two homer game, five homers in two games, including the walkoff. That thing was sick. I don't know that again, Rob, I need to see that.

Does that feel good? Is that a good feeling? Dude. Oh, I mean, and not only that, Jake. Okay, like he's not on a good baseball team. They're playing better. I mentioned that since June 6th. But he's also looking at the Orioles being like,

you guys traded me? And now look where you're at. Again, it's a little bit of Marlins blinders that we have on. Like the Kansas City Royals, like you mentioned, one bad month, we treat them with respect. They were a playoff team last year. They're 48 and 52. The Marlins are a game behind them.

So, again, we're talking a little bit of icky baseball, even really being considered for the wild card or anything, but it's a better brand down there. The Marlins are in third place in the NL East above the Braves and the Nats. Yeah. How about that? How about it?

Coach, there is a lot of other guys that have been mentioned throughout this program that I am happy to say they end up on Enfuego. Dirt Nasty's on Fuego. That means I'm on fire, baby. Like Waco. Enfuego. is brought to you by Corona.

Make sure you guys go out, get some Corona today. Get in Fuego, Tram. Of course. I mean, Dalton, number one at least, but he deserves it for the series. A Eugenio Soros, five for ten,

four of those hits were homers, seven runs driven in. Here are some stats. Two plus homers in consecutive games. He's got 35 Jimmy Jacks. That's the most in the National League, third most in Major League Baseball. He leads the majors with 20 homers,

since June 1st. He's got 85 runs driven in already. That's most in the big leagues. His last 162 games, it's a 940 OPS with 558 runs driven in 32 doubles and 114 runs scored. Pay that man. Yankees are going to get him in the bag.

Bryce Harper, 5 for 12, 2 doubles, 3 homers. So all extra base hits in the series. They're 30 and 16. when Bryce gets a hit. That's 105 win pace, and they're 12 and 13 when he's held hit list. Nick, comma Kurtz, seven for 12, four doubles, a triple and a home run. Taylor Ward, five for 12, three doubles, two homers in this series. He recorded this fourth game this season with Jake, four plus four more RBIs. That's tied for third most in the AL this season.

He's got 73 already on the year. Sheesh. Shea Lane Jlears, we don't talk about him much anymore. Six for 13, three doubles, two homers, five runs driven in. Perez another catcher okay five for 10 two doubles two homers and two runs driven in those are solo shots jordan beck mentioned yeah i got crushed twins pitching seven for 13 uh a triple a homer and two runs driven in he's hitting 385 on inside pitches this year so just stay away from him i guess on hell martina six for 14 two doubles a homer three runs driven in for the cleveland guardians uh unless

Trump has something to say about it. Last 13 hits, 11 for extra basis. How crazy is that? Insane. Michael Talkman, three for seven. Michael Talkman!

While we have you, let me tell you what this guy's doing. It's okay. I love me some talk about what the president is saying. Holy crap. Two doubles of Homer 6th run driven in. He's the 50 second different player to reach the Allegheny River. That's kind of cool.

It's been accomplished 84 times, and the only other White Sock to do it? Your guy. My guy, Jim, Tommy. And for the pitchers who shoved, Tos Bradley, he's been doing it, huh? No, he hasn't. 865 ERA and six previous career starts against Baltimore before Friday start. But this one, six innings pitch, zero earned runs. Kumar Rocker, six and a third, zero earned runs.

We talked about him. He took a no-no into the six. Aaron Sovalet for the White Sox, six innings pitch, zero earned runs. talked about him before. Marcus Schroeman. Hello, are you back? Six innings pitch, one earned run. He's 2 and 0 with a 3 ERA over his last four starts.

That's 21 innings. Gavin Williams mentioned him. He could be the best pitcher or the worst, depending on the day. He was nasty, though, on Sunday. Seventing's pitch, one earned run. Season high, 11Ks for him. And that's who's in Fuego, Jake. Now tell us who's struggling while I blow up this candle.

It's making me nauseous over here. Wow. Okay. Trev's going to deal with that. I'm going to tell you guys again, go get some corona. It's baseball season. It's summer, summer time. Get a little sunshine.

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I text him. I'm trying to pump the guys up. That's what I do. I said, you're a freaking stud. He texted me back. Ha, ha, ha, why? He'll be 25 years old in the show.

Don't actually know his age. 25 years old in the show. Good dude. Hot girlfriend. Decently handsome. Just, you know. Pumping the gas a little bit. Sends me the crying, laughing emoji.

I see you'll be a multimillionaire at 30. And I'm just trying to gas the guy up, Jake. Um, we said, other stuff, but... Okay. Yeah, I mean, thank you for inviting us in that private conversation. He's 24 years old. He was a first round pick, so he's probably already

a multi-millionaire? Yep. Yeah, he made $5 million at the draft. Yeah, five points. Taxes, spending habits. Right, right, right. And then you got the agent gets. Brooks Lee is in it to the point that Trevor Ploof's texting him. That's what you need to know. Tommy Edmund is in a 5-4-43. Oh, Tommy.

Hitless in 18 at bats on the road. He needs that home cooking. Brian Reynolds is in 8 for 53. Who won the Longoria beef? Ian Hap is in an 8 for 51. Tell me that pairs up with the wine. If that pairs up with the wine, Trev, you are so out. Did he drink the wine?

It was a fabulous two bottles of wine. Michael Garcia having his breakout season. He's in an 11 for 56. 66% of his strikeouts have come against the fastball. Look at that. Should I tell Ian Hap, crack the friggin bottle, bro, and you'll get out the slump? Yeah, I mean, you got to do something, bro,

because that blood's on your hands. I'm going to be honest. That's who's on slump. Hey, we have a lot of studs that come on who's struggling, and then they get off. That's the whole deal. And it kind of goes with the aisle too, because when you go on the aisle, it stinks,

but you come off the aisle. We mentioned Sal Freelick hamstring. Take care of that, Sal. They're going to miss him and not, because they'll just... They'll call up another version of Sal Freelick, who will be on Enfuego next week. Sam Haggerty for Texas,

some left ankle stuff, hoping to be the minimum. Alec Bohm, this is interesting. Three to four weeks. Third base market is crazy because there's another guy here too. Esauk Perrettes for Houston is who Trev was mentioning. Wright Hamstring. They're saying four weeks unofficially.

Jake Bauer, Shane Smith, Nolan Gorman for St. Louis. Some back stuff hoping for the men on them. Coming off the aisle. This is what we like. Brandon Lau for Tampa Bay. Need some more homers out of him. Chas McCormick for Houston.

Brooks Raley for the Mets. They're looking for pitching help, like you talked about. Zeke Tovar for Colorado, as you said. Young Jordan Walker trying to figure it out for St. Louis. Brooks Baldwin for the White Sox. And Zebby Matthews for your Minnesota twins. Trev, let's start everyone's week the right way. You got to go.

Didn't get to see Kelsey in Colorado. I know. Oh, you didn't see her in Colorado. No, she's damn. You day, K. Shout out. Casey Lynch, looking great. Looks good. He's always a handsome dude, isn't he? So I'm struggling with a name for this.

It's going to be called, Don't mess it up. Don't you dare mess this up. And it goes to Major League Baseball. Oh. Oh, Tripp, you're going to give an award to Major League Baseball because you guys sold out. We didn't sell out.

I didn't get any money. I wish I sold out. I didn't get any money. money. But if you're a baseball fan, you can agree. Like, we're on a heater right now, Coach. Maybe the award should be, get the chips off the table award. When you're on a heater at the casino and you're up and you just think it's going to last forever and you're going to make some crazy decisions with your chips. Don't do that. Get off the table. Okay. Disagree, that's a, don't, bad gambling advice. Um,

So Major League Baseball is getting my award. I'm going to mention some things. All-Star weekend. Awesome. Yeah. Home run derby was great. Atlanta was electric. The game, people are raving about the ABS.

Players loved it. Fans loved it. The swing off. Please don't implement that. I mean, Jimmy had to talk about that in regular season games. Like, I'm not about that life. For an exhibition, it's great. Maybe we have, like, I don't know.

Maybe it comes into play. some point I don't think it will ever will in a regular season. I don't prefer that. But like, look, people like it, people like it. I thought it was great for the All-Star game, though. And the fact that Kyle Schwerber went three-for-three, like it was just perfect. It worked out perfectly, perfectly for them. Say what you want about Mizoroski being in the All-Star game, but they're creating narratives. They're doing it the right way. Rob Manfred said he wants to bring back pitching matchups. We're getting Skeen's Miserski. Like we're getting that.

We're getting these heavyweight matchups that, like, will make people tune into the sport. That's good for the sport. It's awesome to see. And if you don't like that, like, you're just, you're a hater, dude. Don't be a hater. Don't be like that. The Bristol series they were about to get is going to be awesome.

The jerseys look freaking phenomenal. And I guarantee that's going to be a big hit. They've done a really good job with, like, those, like, one-off games, which, by the way, I gave them the idea for that. You're taking credit for that. I said, this is 2020, I was talking about this.

I'm like, you need to give a director, the keys to the production. And I said, Michael Bay can do it in San Diego, Spike Lee in New York. Like, let's do some different things.

Now we're getting these themed series. You're welcome. I came up with that. Bristol's here is going to be off the chart. We got Aaron, Judge, and Shohei Otani right now. We've got the international market going absolutely nuts. two of the best players to ever live in the game right now.

Don't mess this up with the CBA. And that goes to the Players Association as well. Players Association, MLB, it's early to talk to be a labor pod. But don't you dare mess this up? I'll be so mad at both sides if that happens. Okay? We got a good thing going here.

Let's figure it out. In fact, let's start talking now. instead of waiting till the 11th hours at the right term not sure don't wait long let's start getting it going now because we have the sport in such a good spot take the chips off the table let's go trev i appreciate it but i think in your heart of hearts you know that ain't happening um now that i'm a sellout i'll get let me get in the room yeah but what side oh trev that movie scene, you walk into the table. There's the players on one side, the owner's

on the other, and you're just like, you have the Travis Kelsey mom jersey on. You know, I said to the head of the fucking table, Jay. Hey, we're going to get this done today. It was me. It was Rob Manfred. It was Tony Clark.

I, uh, me and Tony Clark. I still don't know what that means. Yeah. I don't think I know what it means. Me and Tony Clark on the same flight back from Atlanta. Um, nothing exchanged. He was wearing a fresh fit. I was impressed.

I didn't think Tony got down like that, but it was... I think he needs to get rid of the beard. It's interesting. I see both sides of it. Like, it's a sign of, like, wisdom and age. It's a powerful look. I don't know. It's not in my area code.

It's a big dude. Everyone's yelling lockout. You're right. It's going to be so interesting to see where we are by then. But, you know, they're going to go up against the wall because that's how you negotiate. That's, they've proven it. We've been a part of it.

So, anyways. Treve, great award. I'm going to give out the I'm not a baby kangaroo award. Prove it. I can't. I'm kind of built like one. Trev, baby kangaroo is called? A Joey.

A Joey. Great. Look at you. I feel. like, more stupid. How do people learn that? But don't know,

don't know. Is it actually a pouch or is it not a pouch? I don't know. I think it's a pouch. Weird. Trev, for the baseball losers that I am one of, I read out of,

I read out of like, here we go. Like, flesh kind of, right? Oh, okay. You're this like, you're this like animal and like, you just need a pouch.

So all of a sudden, like, the people with the pouches, they like survive and then like more more animals have pouches like what there is kangaroos without pouches i'm assuming um man i for the listeners that love this part portion of the show we've just hit a sweet spot of kangaroos and the baseball player i'm about to reference um i said i'm not i'm not a baby kangaroo which means i'm not a joey and i don't want to throw this guy under the bus because he had a nice career. He stuck around for, I mean, seven years in the show.

That's nothing to quaff at. What? Joey Gathright, Trev. Do you remember Joey Gathright? He was speedster for the raise. It was kind of advertised as like the next Carl Crawford, but faster. I know the name, but if you had to quiz me on where he played, I wouldn't have it. So he was big, like when Tampa was kind of becoming what Tampa was.

I think he's got some minor league stolen bass. stats that are just... You know Joey Gathright? You know Joey Gathright. Come on. It's the stage, yeah. Like, in his first season of high A and double A, he had 69 steals.

Like, guys, one of, you know, probably one of the fastest guys to ever play this game. 238 career stolen bases in the show. You know, couldn't hit a ton, whatever. But 238 in the show, that's not correct.

In the minors, excuse me, 81 in the show. My bad. Good call out. Appreciate you. Joey Gathright was like, whoa. If this guy clicks, like watch out for his speed and how it can change baseball. The race just had another one. Chandler Simpson. And like you mentioned before, Trev, he got called up.

He got sent down, which, again, there's some teams that do not treat real prospects that way. My Yankees are one of them. But he got sent down. The rays are going to raise. He got sent down for about a month. End of May sent down, called back up, end of June. Trevin, his last 20 games, 366, 395, and 831 OPS. And when you have those kind of numbers and you can run like this fella can run,

it's just, it's different. There's not a lot of guys that play this game that can run the way he runs. and whether you're into the raise or I think the bigger thing for me is the baseball season's so long that like when Chandler Simpson just got called up, he struggled and he wasn't much of a plus for Tampa. It wasn't really a minus, but he wasn't really a plus. He has been a plus for about a month. And if he continues to play like this,

you kind of need to change your Tampa scope. And it's just, it goes into our whole athleticism and baseball, looking the right way? The way he plays almost doesn't feel right because he's almost too fast. But when a guy like this is good at baseball, it's just a different experience. And I'm interested to see coming up for young Chandler Simpson who he is. But if he plays at an AOP, he's going to be one of the best players in baseball. If this isn't what you want baseball to look like, I don't agree with you. This is what baseball is supposed to look like.

We need real deal athletes. we need guys that can burn around the bases can go get it in the outfield that's fun to watch you saw some of the stolen bases there uh him getting fired up i mean we've made changes in the game to emphasize these types of players so i am i am all in on chanler simpson i don't think he should be sent down i mean look obviously you struggle at the plate and you're not getting on base then yeah you get get sent down no one's uh you know immune to that but if you're getting on base at a decent clip this guy should be in the big leagues. Well, that's the wild thing.

When he got sent down, he had a 632 OPS, which, again, below league average and not good, but the way he can run, that's a contributing player, the way he's been playing recently. Last 20 games, four walks, four strikeouts, Trev. Hot in the streets. 26 hits, my goodness. People, we are so back.

Excited to see what the next couple weeks have for us. As we sneak towards, deadlines in 10 days? Is that math right? Math right, gath right. Boom. Baby kangaroos. Check sucks. Evolution always gets me, bro.

Really? Yeah, I start thinking about too much. I'm like, it took a million years. I'm like, what? Like at a certain point, we'll be prehistoric. I think about that, too. I'm like, yeah, what are humans going to look like? We'll probably, we won't be here.

A million years is insane. More O'Neill Cruz.