Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - Dodgers Dominate World Series Rematch!

Episode Date: June 2, 2025

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball. How about some Brewers, Blue Jays? Oh, yeah, the Dodgers dogwalk the Yanks. I guess we could talk about that a little bit. Let's talk ball. Oh. Cal Raleigh. Doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter who I am. Zebby Matthews. Whoa. Good bounce back from him. Hello and welcome to talk in baseball. presented to you by Seat Geek, Code Talk in 2025. Happy June 2nd every year. How?

How? We were just in spring training. Before COVID, we were sharing food together? No. Summer's here, people. Summer in the city. I'm Jake Storelli. That is Trevor Plouffe.

Rob is produced, and Molly's here, chilling. And you're all here. And we thank you. And I hope you had a good baseball weekend. I was going to say hope you enjoyed some Yanks Dodgers as a little side piece to whatever else you were enjoying. But I don't know if you had to. But I know speaking of side pieces, Trev, how was the great Northwest, Twins Mariners? It was great, Poppy.

Thanks for that big word salad right there. I love that for me this early in the morning. Pacific Northwest, beautiful. The weather was great. A great series, we'll get into it. what were you talking about before? Okay. The Dodgers, what did they do to the Yankees?

Yeah, yeah. I can't wait to hear you talk about that. A lot of good ball, though. Where are we starting today? It is Monday, June 2nd, and Mondays we do American League, man. So, yeah, I like it. Let's cut through it.

We dove deep last time. Let's get into it with the American League. And I made an exception, because I did bring Yankees, Dodgers, over to the American League. because it's the World Series rematch and the Yanks are going to get their revenge. We still have Aaron Judge fellas. Homer.

They still have Otani. Homer, does it get any better for baseball? Rob Manfred, put some juice in them balls. Yankees get ahead and a nice lead. Max Fried hasn't lost a game as a Yankee. Here come the Dodgers. It's Shohei, it's Freddie, it's Teosker. They take game one and come.

back in win. They take game two, 18 to 2. How much do you want to hear about that? Sorry young Will Warren. Dodgers boat race them. The Yankee salvage is set. That's Ryan Yarborough. Get out of here, Yamabozo. Dodgers take two out of three. We'll talk about it. Rais in Houston, this is a fun one, Trev. Kind of your raise and my stroze. They split four. It was either raise big or Houston close, which I don't know you'd necessarily expect. Junior Combinero is kind of happening before our eyes. 9 OPS in the last month or so. Rays put up a 13 burger and a 16.

The game the Stroes win is 2-1 Framber alert. And Hunter Brown, 1-0 Astros win. They split four. The A's and the J's, excuse me. The Toronto Blue Jays sweep if four, gamer and the offense is clicking. Ernie Clement, is he a modern-day Trevor Plouffe? Addison Barger, you might hear some more about him. Alejandro Kirk, the modern-day story alley. The Blue Jays put together a big weekend of ball and check out where they are in the standings.

The Blue Jays are in the mix. George Springer, two homer day to kind of get out of his Funkerino. Speaking of Funkerino, the Mariners take two out of three from the Minnesota Twins. The twins win game one after Zebby Matthews gets knocked around in the first inning because Cal Raleigh's knocking around anyone who tries them. A homer in every game this series. But the twins, resilient. They win game one, 12 to 6 in 10 innings. They're down to two outs in the ninth.

They get Signor Smoke, the first team to get them this year. Mariners come back. They get the next two games. J.P. Crawford is showing off for Trev. Bat flips, breaking scoreboard. And then Luis Castillo, fun stat on him coming up. That's how you keep the people staying tuned. The Tigers and Royals played every series they've ever played

as the Tigers won game one seven to five. Your guy Dylan Dingler, Spencer Torkelson, and Riley Green featured on the new Chris Rose show this week. Go check that out. Dugout discussions. And then it's Royals 1-0 and Tigers 1-0. They outlast Scouble. and then Detroit Outlast Bubich.

Your guy cater, man. He just shoves. You were on at first. Vinnie Pasquintino with a clutch hit and the one Royals win, but the Tigers take the series. Your best team in the month of May? The St. Louis Cardinals. But May ended on Sunday when they dropped the series to the Rangers,

and the Rangers saw some hitting. Marcus Simeon came alive, four-hit day at the office. Josh Young in that thick-neck, three hits. Simeon with another got on base four times in that final game. They couldn't get past ace adjacent Sunny Gray in game two, but they win a series. Can they get involved this year?

I don't know. Guardians take two out of three from the Angels, and unfortunately that's kind of obvious. After Jose Soriano and Jorge Soler, excuse me, Jose Soriano, Scott Kingery involved in the action, we love it. Cleveland runs it the rest of the way. Kwan, Jose Ramirez owns the Angels. and he owns everyone.

Knocked out Tim Anderson on the field. White Sox, Orioles, did you watch? No. Orioles sweep, though. Does it, is it the start? We'll deep dive into that. And a lot more on today's talking baseball. That's what happened in the American League.

Jose Ramirez owns the world also knocked out Tim Anderson. That's what I got from that entire speech right there. Crazy, man. Tim Anderson's last home run came before the knockout punch. That is true. Jay Cuda on that one. Tough. We will deep dive into Baltimore,

White Sox, but I got the standings if you want to pop. Every, every up. The American League standings, you know what? I'm going to switch it up because I was just out there in Seattle.

We'll start out west where Seattle has a half-game lead over the Houston-Nastro Seattle, 32 and 26. Houston 32 and 27. Got some bad news on your dawn. The Rangers, 29 and 31. They're trying to get back to 500.

The Angels, 26 and 32 in the athletics. My gosh, have you seen what they've been doing lately? It ain't good, Pop. I'm about to see it firsthand for four here. 23 and 37 for them. It's bad for the A's right now. We'll go to the Central where the Tigers continue to lead all of baseball at a 39 and 21 clip.

Cleveland, six games behind them, 32 and 26. My twins, 31 and 27, Kansas City, 31 and 29, and the White Sox 18 and 41. And then yes, we'll go out east where Jake's Yanks are 36 and 22, five and a half games up on who? The Blue Jays. We're only a half game back in the wild card right now. They're 31 and 28. The Tampa Bay Ray's been playing much better ball as of late 30 and 29. The Red Sox just can't get out of their own way.

29 and 32, 8.5 games back. Not in the wild card picture right now. And then Baltimore, 22 and 36, 14 games back of the Yankees. And those are your American League standings. Trevor, thank you for the standings. We can see clearly now with that. And our shady rays, summer's here. I told you people, it's June.

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because you get 35% off your next pair of polarized sunglasses. Shadyrays.com co-talking 35% off. Trev, let's not dilly dally about it. Yankees Dodgers, World Series rematch. Take me through it, Pop. I want to hear your thoughts on it. The two best cities in the world. I don't think you can argue that.

Okay. And maybe the two best teams in baseball, Tigers, Phillies, we'll circle back on all of that. And man, Yankees come in. Jimmy talked about it on talking Yanks last night. And when Judge Pops at first Homer, it's like, you know what? Yeah, screw these guys. Like, they walk to walk and they talk to talk.

Every podcast they could pop on for the offseason. They talked about how much of a joke the Yankees defense was. You'd be surprised this Yankees roster, and it's how quick baseball moves, it's a lot of new guys. It was Judge, it's Wells, it's Volpey. Otherwise, a lot of new parts for the Yankees, including Max Fried. The Dodgers put together a Dodger inning where the Yankees,

I think they had something on Gonsolin because they hit four homers off of him early. He corrects. He stays in the game. He outlasts it. The Dodgers come back. And then they, Will Warren, man. I don't know.

I don't know if people feel for a kid in that moment. I kind of do, because this, This was a big start for him, and he got shooketh by the Dodgers. Yanks end up salvaging it, but I don't know. With the Dodgers still missing a lot of pieces, I think they showed here why they're who they are. They can absolutely dominate any team in the big leagues. I mean, that's what the Dodgers can do.

You're right. They've been missing a lot of people, and it's not always going to work out that way. I think the Yankees salvaging that last game, I think, kind of speaks volumes. If they went in there and got swept and there was another big lead by the Dodgers, the conversation would be completely different. I think if you're a Yankees fan, you just said, damn, okay, we got, that second game doesn't even really count.

You know, just they were an offensive power, and you just kind of wash it. So you take that last game and you run with it. I want to ask you this, you know, you're talking about all those guys after the World Series talking shit. Is that more embarrassing, or is it the fact that Show-Hio-Ton? Johnny was sleeping on the bench in game too. Like, I don't think people, like, that was making its rounds around the internet, but like, that's a really telling video. Hey man.

You literally fell asleep in the dugout. There's a lot of, you know, Yankees, Knicks overlap in the city as the Knicks played their final game this weekend. I mean, that's, look at that sleep, sleepy show. I mean, Yankee fans are doing the same thing. Nobody wants to watch that. Nobody wants to watch Pablo Reyes pitch. That, yeah, it's the Dodgers are number one in average, number one in on base, number one in OPS, number one in runs, number one in home runs.

And it still hasn't gone. Mookie hasn't played this weekend. Shohay is being Shohay, and, like, yes, he's there. Freddy is actually playing above his skis. You and me had a panic moment. early on this season. We're like, wait, will Freddie Freeman get old one day? No, he has no need to do that.

And the way his hips are moving, doing the Dodgers thing, like Freddie, Freddie feels good. So the last thing I'll say about this series, we got to move on. We can't spend this much time. I don't love the Dodgers celebration because my youth team does it all the time. And I'm like, you guys aren't good enough to do that. Oh, I think I strangely disagree with you, Kyle.

It's so bad. Let the kids play. We're getting beat like 10 to 2, and this guy gets on first base and does the hip of the show hey thing. I'm like, dude, we got to learn when and where to do it. Two of the Dodgers' best players over the last week have been Max Muncie and Andy Pahas. So it's just that line up, man. Pius has been good all year for them.

Monsi is starting to obviously come on as of late. Like we always laugh at Will Smith stats, and Teosker doesn't get mentioned as much. because of the three MVP's like that lineup is the best in baseball and it hasn't been full tilt yet and i still think that's coming and yeah they're they're going to wait for their pitching to get healthy like people are talking about their trade deadline i don't i don't can't really do any like you're you're there the pieces available i don't think are better than the pieces you have yeah they're going to look for pitching they'll do that for sure yeah whether it's you know

bullpen help, whether if they think they need somebody to give them some length as a start or we'll see how that goes. But yes, I mean, the roster is very talented, especially when they're all healthy. Yankees good at bats in that last game. Nice. Punch him on the way out, Jake. Ray's Astros. Trev, four-gamer and when it's split, it's always, it's a little tricky there. I think we've been doing a little bit of, well, where are the Astros in the standings? They're a half-game back of Seattle. For me, Your raise, which I said I'm going to open my heart to, there's a lot of stats in here.

When they won game one, they won eight out of nine. When they won game three, it was nine out of 11. Yeah. And the biggest thing is they're scoring runs. You know I'm a sucker for when the offense is clicking, because I think we find pitching and, like, every team has two relievers tapped in at any time that you're like, who's this guy, and they're nasty now. but the Ray's offense and Caminero being a key cog in it like that's changed for me

yeah look they've they've looked a lot better and we talked about this I believe last episode they've had healthy pitching and it showed I mean for the most part it showed again this series you're right Camerro coming on has been great for them be Lao has been awesome for them like when they score runs they need Yanni Diaz to go you know, he had a few good games this series. So two huge offensive outbursts we saw for them. And then I think on the Houston side, it's about having stoppers. And they're going to have to figure some stuff out.

They have bad news on Yordaun. His hand is still not there yet. I can't tell if this is like good news for the Astros and where they're at or bad news for them. They just haven't had Yordaun, even when he was playing, he wasn't really producing. now he's still hurt. There's still only a half game back, I believe. I'm not really sure exactly how Houston fans are taking that. I think you have to be stoked that you're where you're at without Yardom,

but you need him, and hopefully he's going to come back soon. One thing I took from this game, which I thought was really nuts. Framber, complete game in game two. Stops after they lose the first one, 13 to 3. Yiner Diaz, he goes two for four. He has the walk-off Homer, a little opposite. bow. He swung at the first pitch in every abat. So he had four bats and he saw four pitches. It's to walk off Homer. Like, you think maybe you ambush three times and the fourth time,

like, are you going to see a pitch? No. He just hits a homer with it. That's like, that's crazy. Like, I need, I need Sarah Lang to look up how many times guys have gone their entire game swinging at the first pitch each about it. I bet it's a lot more than you think. Right. But in my mind, I'm like, that just doesn't ever happen. Feels like a bad approach. I don't know. It feels like you. It feels like you could get yelled at without that stat line.

Yeah, that was a big one for them. A little more Framber coming later. And Trev, this is probably going to send us in a bad spot. This is one of the first times I was looking around the league. A lot of starting pitchers let it eat. Zach Lattel through a buck 17. What is that? That's just, hey, it's kind of summer.

Let it eat out there? that? Well, I mean, they had such a huge lead. I'm just, I'm curious as well if they were just trying to save the pen and he just wanted to keep going because, I mean, yeah, nine innings pitch. I mean, they won the game 16 to 3. Typically, you'd have some kind of low leverage reliever. Have anyone else go out there? You know, the starting pitcher, but. I mean, that tells, that tells me that's some Ray's stuff. That's Zach Lattell saying, like, I want this. I want this. And the Ray's, you know, when we played there, it was high tea and it was do your thing. I mean, then Todge Bradley saves their bullpen the next game.

So they are the freshest bullpen in a league right now. We're just saving the bullpen at every game. I don't know. I mean, hey, some of the stats there are really, like I focused on their hitting. But like you said, in a way, it comes back to the pitching. Baz, Pepio, Lattel, and Bradley, a 191, ERA, 23 strikeouts in the four game set. And 28 in a third innings. That's like easy way to manage, cash.

I mean, but think about this, though. I mean, if you're the race, you played such a good series. You outscored Houston 30 to 9. You only get the split. You have one complete game. Another guy goes seven innings, no earned runs. But you faced, and this is like the crux of it. You faced Framber and Hunter Brown.

I want you saying crux more. That's a good word for you. That's like not an SAT word. No, it's not, but it's just nice when you say it. Okay. I think that's what it comes down to. Rays, bats are hot, but Framber and Hunter Brown are better. Can we talk Toronto Blue Jays? Yeah.

Trev. You know, it feels dumb because I've, Blue Jays are one of the biggest dicks to Yankee fans on the internet. I've gotten past that besides what I just said to the people. That I think you know, when I talk about the Blue Jays, there's part of me that gets excited and I really wanted them to re-sign Vlad. and I like that they got Santander. I kind of love their pitching staff in a way. Like, they got some dogs on there,

guys that have been through battles that I kind of want it to click. Should I read too much into a four-game sweep against an athletics team that is just getting worked right now? Like, they are, they're down to Baltimore. They got the same in the wildcard standings as the Baltimore Orioles. So the athletics thing has ended. It's over. They're dead if someone needs to hear that, except Jacob Wilson.

He's a stud. But Toronto, I, again, I think it's just East Coast lame kicking in. I want this to work and their offense has turned it on. They have. I mean, that's been huge for them. They went eight and four to end the month. They've been just like teetering around 500 and it's kind of like what they've been playing. But I believe it was last week, Schneider was talking about them.

We're playing our best ball right now. getting the pitching, you know, we're playing defense, and then we got some guys stepping up. Offensive, we're going to talk a little bit more about some of them later in the show. The A's, Jake, in this series, I mean, it's going bad for them. It's going bad. It's going bad. It's going bad. The A's didn't have a tie or lead later than the third inning in the first three games.

Like, that's not what you want. hey, they were trying to salvage the series. They'd be four, two, in the bottom of the eighth of the last game before our guy Addison Barger. It's a three-run shot. I mean, it's, uh, I think you have to credit the Blue Jays. Yeah, they went up and raked, but this A's team is, is playing poor all around the ball, pitching, hitting everything.

Vladdy, his numbers are starting to get up there. 391 on base for Vladdy. Bo is starting to hit a couple. Kirk, Barger. You know who leads these Toronto Blue Jays in war? Who leads the Toronto Blue Jays in war?

Is it Ernie Clement? Ernie Clement, baby. He's a Paul player's ball player. We're going to get into more. We got more on the Blue Jays. I keep wanting to go into it, but I can't yet, Pop, I've got to save it for later. Hey, Rod, can you show Denzel Clark's home run robbery

because it is one of the... Oh, yeah. It's one of the sicker ones of the year. that when this was on the internet, I was like, wait, who is this cat? Just casually climbing the wall.

I'll take that. You also hit an absolute tank for his first homer. Welcome to the league, bro. Trev, I'll give the mic to you. The only thing we didn't mention was Varsho comes out of the game for the huge is, which is tough.

Seems like a hammy thing. Andres Jimenez coming back, though. Andres Semenis coming back. They're going to have to make some decisions about where guys are going to play. I think we might be kicking Addison Barger out to right field. Fly balls are easy, kid. No, squeeze it. What happened in Seattle this weekend, Trev?

Honestly, one of the better series in all the baseball all throughout the season. The twins, they came back with a huge ninth inning in game one against Andres Munoz. there were just some just some really cool baseball Willie Castro hits the homer off them Larnick ties it up because Carré hits a two-run bomb to get the lead in the 10th inning

they kind of open it up and that was the second game in a row the Nationals had done that to the Mariners in the previous game where they'd scored seven runs in the 10th inning and the twins came and scored six runs in the 10th inning good stuff all the way around

the Mariners ended up winning the next two games walking both of them off. Cole Young, he comes up, makes his debut, has a good bat against Cole Sands, ends up getting the walk off fielder's choice, and then a Rosa Rana got it there. It was, honestly, it was the Cal Raleigh show. Yeah.

He is, you know, the twins were trying to, like, bury him inside, but any mistake that they made, and even pitches that weren't mistakes. He went up and got one against Ober, I believe, right? And then he got it against Paddock, a curveball down. He's just, I think that is the story for the Mariners right now. I mean, their bullpen kind of getting touched up is interesting.

They had been pretty dang good. Obviously, Andres Munoz gives up his first earned runs of the year. And he just looked like he didn't have a feel for his slider. And he was kind of missing with that, you know, not really being dominant as he usually is with it. But yeah, I think it comes down to him. It was a fun series, but it's Cal Raleigh, man. He is, it's impressive. I think he's leading the league.

homers now. Yes. 22 homers in before June 1st. I think it's the most but a catcher's ever had ever, yeah. By June 1. So that's what's going on with that guy. And another guy, I feel like we used to shout him out more, Luis Castillo. He's kind of blended in with just all of the Mariners good pitching.

Mariners career ERA leaders. Yep. Number one, Luis Castillo. And then it's Randy Johnson and Felix Hernandez. So I, you know, Luis Castillo, we've always talked. No one's ever been like, I don't know about that guy. He's always been pretty nails. Just seeing him on top of that leaderboard was like a, damn,

he's kind of gone underappreciated as we've gotten distracted by Kirby and Wu and Gilbert. He's still the dude. He's still just a ton of armside run. And then he throws a slider going the opposite way. and, you know, if he's on throwing strikes with both those pitches, I mean, it just makes for such a difficult at that. But this is, it was fun. It was a good, it was a really, really good series. The twins are, even though, uh, they've lost two series in a row, I mean, they've, they've lost some extra Indian games. Like, they're, they're in it. They look good. They have to figure out Royce Lewis and what they're going to do with him, because he's just in a really tough spot. Um, I don't, I don't know if AAA is in his future. Um, but, it's it's getting to a point now where they they're going to have to do something they already moved them down all the way down to the nine hole um if he doesn't turn it around quickly i'm

i don't know if there could be there could be an option coming i don't i haven't heard anything but it's it's gotten to that point trev i just i wanted to see if you know i knew louise castillo was borderline for your playing career so i did Trevor plough first louise castillo um you as you just shook your head you did not face him um An AI overview article came up and it's Trevor Plouf talking about Castillo maybe getting traded and it's just a crazy world we live in. Just a crazy world we live in. Let's not simulation now.

Let's simulation later. Maybe the last meaty one, Tigers Royals, I don't know how much of your eye of Sauron you had turned to this one. Because I was laughing when I look and I see the final two games are 101. which again, a mix of AL Central Baseball and how good Michael Waka has been as a Kansas City Royal and how good Terrick Scouble is every time he touches the mound. Meanwhile, Boobich is doing historic stuff too. So both these teams throw the ball incredibly.

Royals have been scuffling for a little bit now. Not down and out scuffling, but just can't get the momentum going and maybe Jack Cags will be that guy. Yeah, I mean, it's been the offense for them. This is more about the Tigers for me than we'll get to our guy Jack. In the first game, they slug their way to victory, a bunch of homers there. And after the game, they're talking about, you know, Spencer Torquistin was saying,

we are finding different ways to win. We can be pitching dominant where our starting pitching goes out and does it. Or we can throw a bullpen game with our guy cater, you know, opening it up, and we can dominate with our bullpen. And this game showed they can also, you know, slug their way to victory. So that's a scary thing for, you know, the American League when the Tigers are starting to do that. And, you know, we keep waiting for what do you call it, the shoe to drop? The other shoe to drop on this tiger's offense, you know, some of these guys.

You keep calling for them. I keep saying it because I, you know, in my mind, that's logical. And it just hasn't happened. So I'm, look, I'm stoked for the Tigers. I thought you told me Jesus was a carpenter. Jesus was a carpenter. It might have been just an apprentice. Did he ever make it to a full carpenter?

We're not sure. Didn't seem like he put in that work. Because Joseph was a carpenter. Right. Anyways. Then, yeah, so they slug the way to victory. Game one, great. Game two was Moose Day.

He was there to announce his official whichever. I actually text him and say, hey, man, congrats on the Royals Hall of Fame. Like, obviously, well deserved, you're a stud. He's like, I wish it was, I just retired as a royal. Oh. So I got that back from him. But he gave a speech, did all the things.

And then what I thought was cool about that was it was Vinny that got the knock. And the night before he was getting interviewed and he said, this is on me. My job is to produce runs. And I'm not getting the job done. Well, what does he do the next day? He produces the run to win the baseball game. That's sports, baby. You got to love that for Vinny P.

And you talk, you know, manager decisions. They slid Vinny down to seventh because they were facing. scoble, so they were like, hey, you know, that's tougher, literally every baseball player. So he gets the only RBI in the game that that's one of those, I don't know. Maybe you hit a right button for a day. Chris Bubich, man,

we've done this a little bit. And he was one of the guys coming into the year that everyone's like, yeah, it's going to happen, it's about to happen. Guys get off to hot starts. What he is doing, Boobich's 143 ERA is the third best through 12 starts

in the American League in the Wildcard era. 2000 Pedro who's argued as the best pitching season ever and 2018 Justin Verlander so I knew Boobich was thrown

I didn't think Boobich was doing this Where was Justin Verlander pitching in 2018 Astros? That's H-Town, Funky Town, yeah. City where the top drops that he were purple drink

So I mean look Go, go Tigers They continue to win series Best record in baseball all that stuff. The Royals, they end up bringing up Jack Caglione, who is their, you know, massive slugger that they were talking about, we're not going to bring him up on the offensive struggling.

Didn't they just say that last week? Yeah. And they went and scored six runs in this series, and now, hey, we're going to bring him up. Why do you say stuff like that? Call him up if he's ready to play baseball for your team. Yeah. That's where I put that.

I don't know. It's where I hate to be. It's funny to me. needed to do this. You know, I'm excited to see if it changes their fortunes. You know, they've been pitching. They just need to swing the bats a little bit more, and this guy can obviously do that.

We'll see how he does at the big lee level. It's tough. Treb, I think wrapping up the AL for me, because guards, HALs is kind of the obvious. I'm not off Rangers Island, because, you know, they have their stats. If they score runs, they win. They're 21 and 3.

if they score four or more runs. So if that offense ever happens, they just haven't earned it yet. I'm glad that this series happened for them, and it's against a Cardinals team that did have the best record in the month. But I need to see more of it before I start believing. They're this year's Mariners, I guess, is the way to put it, right?

That's... I don't know if they want to hear that, but you're right. I mean, that's very telling. 21 and 3 when scoring 4 or more. a big day for simian the offense opens up in game one that was awesome he ends a four hit day with a

big fly and then sunny gray comes and shoves that was really fun to watch he was absolutely dialed in in game two so he plays the role as the stopper for the Cardinals and then they do it again man I mean the the pitching for the Rangers has been

so freaking good you know de Grom comes and shoves here they end up opening it up late you know we talked about the Great May for St. Louis, but I guess, like, we've been waiting for the Rangers offense to open up, and it can be a series like this that gets it done, and then we can see this team go on a run, but I'm skeptical because it's just, it's taken this long. Yeah, I'm not going to, not going to believe after three games, but I, like, there's still a

part of me that wants to, and Marcus Simeon, you know, first time his batting average has been in the two since opening day. So like, they, they need some of the Jimmy's and the Joe's to do it. And by the way, no one's really saying it. DeGrom. DeGrom's here this year. Has it? No, everyone's saying it.

Who's everyone? They're still kind of, they're not babying him, but, you know, he's not going. They're all babies, Trev. What's that? They're all babies, all the pitchers. That's true. Yeah, come on. Maybe not Jacob de Grom.

And I will never say it about Terrick Scoobie. I like that he changed his glove because he had a no strikeout game. And that fixed it. That's baseball. I like that too. Let's do some National League. And man, a couple teams that have been in the blender all year, the Bastin Red Sox kid in the Atlanta Braves.

The Sox take two out of three to make the fourth place Atlanta Braves. Gialito and Crochet both give strong performances. so did Abraham Toro your stock's first baseman. He's been playing well for them. And Trevor Story has a big series, and you were on that first coach. Let him swing. So he hit home runs and doubles instead of bunting.

Spencer Schwellet-Bach helped the Braves win that second game. What are they doing down there? Cubs take two out of three from the Reds, and unfortunately that's kind of obvious, because if you know what Andrew Abbott's doing, that's the game the Reds won. He has had a month. but after that, Ben Brown with the bulk outing, six innings, one hit.

And then, yeah, the guys that have been doing it all year for the Chicago Cubs continue to do it. They take two out of three. The Nationals getting hot. It's getting hot in the nation's capital. They take two out of three from the snakes, and is that obvious at this point? Sad ending, Corbyn Burns goes off the mound, elbow. yikes. Maybe that's why we'll focus on Nats.

Robert Hassel, couple hits. Key Bear. God, I didn't really let the snakes hit me until right then. That was tough. Mets sweep the Rockies. Mets are good, and we've talked about that. And the Rockies historically bad. 9 and 50.

Jeff Passing just tweeting generic stuff and getting lots of likes on the internet. Because people are laughing at the Rockies. Bad, man. I, uh, it's embarrassing. Soto hit a homer great, dude. Padres, they take two out of three from the pirates, and that's obvious. Padres take that first game, full pension Piv with a nice start.

Jackson Meryl's back in playing fantastic baseball, which is just good for America, if we're being honest about it. They faltered that middle game with Bailey on the mound, and Jake jumped off a bridge. Giants, they take two out of three from the Marlins. Did you watch? Be honest. There was one nice catch in this series.

We might mention that on the way out. Let me see your bird song. You bird song. Hayden does it again. Kyle Harrison's up with the big club pitching. They take two out of three. And your best Western road warriors. I think I'll have myself a beer.

The Milwaukee Brewers. Sweep. And the Philadelphia, Philly's? Eh? Seven game win streak for the crew. That's their longest since August of 2020. Four games above 500 for the first time this season.

First sweep against Philly since 2015. Christian Yelich with a couple big swings for the fellas. Pat Murphy's brew crew is back and so is Best Western. Life's a trip. Make the most of it at bestwestern.com. That is what happened in the National League. And boy, Pop, I can't wait to talk brew crew with you. I got the standings in the National League.

And again, you know what? I'll start out west. The Dodgers, 36 and 23. Two games up on the San Diego Padres. Three games up on the San Francisco Giants, Padres, 33 and 24. Giants 33 and 26. Arizona is going to be an interesting conversation. They're 28 and 31.

And, man, as the injuries pile up, and some of the underperformances. They could be a deadline dealer. Colorado Rockies 9 and 50. My goodness. In the Central, four-game lead for the Cubs, they're 37 and 22. The Cardinals are the team that's four games behind them, 33 and 26. Milwaukee, 32 and 28 after that sweep.

And the Reds, 29 and 31, Pirates, 22 and 38. Then in the NL East, the Mets still atop the division, 37 and 22. One game above the Phillies, I shouldn't have said still in top of the division. They are now on top of the division. One game over the Phillies who are 36 and 23. The Nationals playing decent ball,

Jake, approaching 528 and 31. They're above the Braves. We're 27 and 31 who just cannot seem to get it going. It's like they got bald tires, Jake. They need new tires. I don't know if that makes any sense. The Marlins, 23 and 34, those are the standings in the National League. Thank you, Trev.

I do think I want to go to those Milwaukee Brewers. Let's do it. Because we've been on them. You know, we have heartstrings to the brewers, going back to Jimmy pulling his hamstring at the sausage race. Again, one of the franchises that is kind of in it everywhere in their own way. We've always just wanted a little more. And we were wondering, was this the year the bottom fell out?

Last year they were pissy and grade and screw Craig counsel. He went to the bad guys. And then we're like, dude, Pat Murphy's treating this like a high school JV team. We're guys are getting called out. Maybe the light bulb's going on. W7 in that win column. You know, the Cardinals, did they have their hot streak? What kind of team are they?

The Brewers are in it right now. It's a better brand of baseball. And, man, you see the Phillies on the schedule. And you don't think sweep. You're thinking I'd love to win a series. They're officially hot. The offense, I think is a sneaky, like top eight offense. And, you know, they always pitch.

They always pitch. I think game one was just like such a brewer's game for them. Or like if they want a recipe, like if this was, hey, let's do this every single game. It's Yelly has two homers. We steal five bases and we have an opener and the bullpen comes in and shoves. Like that is, that's what the brewers want to do.

I mean, Yelie's been going off. We talked about him, I think it was last episode, just put the ball in the air. Every time he puts the ball in the air, it's a homer. He must have got the message because he did that. And then game two, holy Schneehe's, man. Just an explosion. And I know, I know Philadelphia fans were not happy on Saturday. just going off

with the two homers is just really feeling he ends up getting cheer but then booed because he's doing too well against his team and you gotta love that for him and then game three comeback game for our brew crew there J.T. Ramoso's he's been really struggling

he gets an RBI in the first, basically at the middle I don't know if you saw the Schwabber RBI it was basically a check swing pushbunt and I thought that was really funny because at the end of it, I don't know if we have the video of that, he does get past the base and gives a little bit like a little high step

and it's just good old-fashioned fun. He's the best. I think he's gone on base, like all games except two this year, which is just insanity. Watch this little high step at the end. You know, a little nice infield knock. Yeah.

Just a little like, you know, you know I'm fast. And by the way, can we say something? Shut up, Jake. young Kyle Schwerber gets called up on the cubbies and you know he's he's thick if we were projecting where Kyle Schrober would be today Schwartz kind of looks great he's looking he's looking slim fit there

yeah he hasn't changed much he's just kind of like been that like nice right like he was V-shaped linebacker body could have been on a trajectory for something else he's in a good spot and then it kind of falls apart for Philly in the last game sorry Weston Wilson he misplay as a Durbin ball

then there's an error by my guy, Trey Turner at shortstop the Brewers tie the game and then Bowers has the pinch it double they get an insurance run from Terang and they end up sweeping the series and I guess maybe that's also a very Brewer's game taking advantage of mistakes but dude this is

definitely a welcome sign for Brewers fans be like yeah they had been kind of middle you know, just kind of trying to figure out, you know, if they were going to participate in the season, if it was going to go the other way, and then they run out a W-7, and they're right back in the thick of things, man.

This is great for them. Yeah, and they were, oh-and-four start out of them, and they've had some low points this season, that if they can get away from that 500 line and be like, we're not staying down there, get in the mix, Milwaukee. I did a, they're using their bullpen a lot. Uribe and Canig tied for most games played this year.

So that's something to watch going forward. One and a half games out of a wild card spot, just like that. Hey now. Hey now. Red Sox Braves, man. I don't know what to do with this one too much. I do want to give Garrett Crochet more flowers. I can't believe how much he is living up to the billing,

essentially every start. But both, you know, as I'm about to get excited for the, the Red Sox. Like, okay, they won a series and blah, blah, the first, like this series ended a five-game losing streak. So I'm, I can't get myself into any of the, quote-unquote, teams we thought were good and have been struggling, the socks, the Braves, the Diamondbacks, like, I'm, I'm not giving them the leash anymore.

It's been two months. Yeah, I mean, both these teams have, like, found their footing, lost their footing, found their footing, lost their footing. It's been, it's been an interesting year for, for both of them. Yeah, I mean, I don't exactly know what you do if you're the Red Sox, although they kind of got what they needed. I mean, Lucas gives them a good enough start so that they win the first game. And then crochet to Chapman, basically.

The last game is about as good as it gets for them. And then Walker just didn't have his, you know, A stuff. And he just was kind of all over the place in that middle game. But yeah, I don't know. This is every time I think the Braves are about to go, I mean, they get some bad news with their pitching, or, you know, even Ronnie's came back and he's been a stud, and it just hasn't happened for them because, you know,

Austin Riley had been struggling and just, it feels like, yeah, they're, they're spinning in place, dude. Both these teams, actually. And it's, it's just, it's felt this way for a little bit. Like, I know last year, you know, they go to the dance after doing that weird Mets doubleheader that keeps the snakes out, but, you know, the Braves weren't, the Braves weren't the Braves last year, and we pointed to injuries,

and now we're kind of moving past that, and the Braves still aren't who we thought the Braves were. Yeah, I can't get hype on either of these teams until I see them go on their Brewer's seven-game winner, and then I will. Four for 26, with runners the scoring position for the Braves. I mean, that's not good enough to get the job done. That ain't it. The Nats are it. And I finished last episode giving my award to the Nats

because I talked about all the young kids and it's kind of happening. They've had a couple good weeks here. Unfortunately, probably more of the story is the Diamondbacks and how I said I'm not letting these teams in. But I mean, Corbyn Burns, if that's a real injury and where they are in the NL West, Treve, you're on this kind of earlier than I wanted to be,

but they're a very interesting, thing if they're out of it, team, for the rest of the league. It's just because of the contract situations and, you know, the way the National League is set up, you know, I was talking to a couple guys this, you know, just talking ball this weekend. And I mentioned that, you know, it's going to take 90 wins in the National League, I think, to get into the playoffs. And, you know, if you're the dying backs now dealing with this. And I don't know if they know for sure what's going on with Corbyn's.

And I know he's getting an MRI and hopefully it's not, T.J., you know. It's going to be an injury. He's going to be out for some time. They have pieces, man. They have a couple pitchers there that are in their walk year. I think Naylor's in his walk year. Like there are pieces to be had. And it just, yeah, I mean, it hasn't.

Their bullpen obviously has been their main issue there, Jake. But I think without, you know, totally ripping them apart right now, I think that you could trade these guys. If it's Gallen, if it's Kelly, if it's, you know, maybe some of their bullpins. pen pieces if you want to do the Josh Nailer, you could reset very quickly because you do have a

strong core there that's going to be back next year. I think the biggest thing is if you're thinking about next year already for the snakes, which is kind of crazy. It's June 1st. There's only three games under 500, but we just talked about some injuries. If Corbyn Burns has to have T.J.

Then we're talking about 2026 and now your pitching staff is looking extremely thin. So where do you go in the office? season. I don't know, man. Fourth in run scored, fourth in homers. And yeah, it's getting weird. It's been weird in the desert. We said this since like the opening weekend. And when I say weird, I mean pitching because it's a bottom five rotation.

Bottom five staff and they're not supposed to be that team. Shout out nationals though, man. They started to hit the ball. James Wood's been doing it all year. Robert Hassel had a really nice weekend and then you know Josh Bell coming around. It's huge for them. Nate Lowe coming around is huge for them. You know, they put up a bunch of runs on this Arizona team and they just yeah they look like

they're ready even though it's not going to happen this year. The third place Nationals. I'll tell you if Eugenio Suarez ends up on the trade market. He's one, yeah. Trev I am

we're an interesting spot. here because the, well, no, I skipped, I skipped Red's Cubs. And there's a little juice there. Again, I guess part of this is now expected for me. Like the Reds, I've released myself from the Reds torture chamber of doing this every time. And the Cubs have proven who they are that, yeah, I'm not blown away by any of this. Like, I like to PCA catch, but otherwise this series doesn't do a ton for me. I think you're talking about the starter for game one for the Reds.

later, if I'm not mistaken. I am. Teaser. Okay, so that's really good. I mean, I watched that start and that was awesome. And then, yeah, I mean, look, it's, I also, it's weird.

I actually really like the Reds, and I think they have so much potential, but yes, they just have not been able to, I guess, really get anything going offensively. And that's, I mean, it kind of was the name of this series

right there. They go, they score six runs, get a great start, win game one, get shutout game two, even though they pitch and the Lodolo gives them a scoreless start, they just can't score runs. And then same thing. They get outscored seven to three on Sunday. And it's, I guess, yeah, this is what you'd expect. If you're going to show me a Reds Cubs series right now, Cubs take two or three, maybe one of the red pitch of shoves and gets a victory.

That's, it is a very. We could have AIed this series before the weekend. It was an AI series. And this is what I would have done. I like that. And then. For me, Trev, I don't even know. Rockies just get me mad.

Like, I'm happy for the Mets, but this is literally what every team is doing to the Rockies. And then, yeah, something about the Pirates, Marlins, and Rockies are starting to get really tough for me to honestly yuck about. Shout out. Soto got going a little bit for the Mets. They have the three guys Homer in the same game for the first time, so that's good for them.

But, yeah, right now you're supposed to sweep up. the Rockies, man. Nine total wins. There was that graphic going around that in May they had three wins and Scotty Sheffler had three wins as well. Yeah. That's a golfer people. He gets one tournament

a weekend. That's, it's not good. It's not good. That is not good. I think the Padres win like a sloppier series for them, but you'll take two or three obviously and they're keeping track with the Dodgers, good for them.

and then who's the last team Giants doing it against the Marlins and we got to show the Dane Myers catch at least in this series We can get you some Dane Myers catch

Get the Dane Myers catch. Where were you guys Saturday for the Robbie Ray Edwin Cabrera? That's a nice catch. Dude, that's an incredible catch And he got up like nothing half and he smacked his head

like his head went into his shoulder as he banged into the wall. Yeah, I kind of don't like that catch. I kind of don't. want to watch that anymore. Oh, I like that catch-off. I like it. It hurts. Straight-up athleticism right there. I have some internal pain watching. Oh. Yeah, that, that reaction is how I feel. But go out and get it.

Hey, Matt Chapman, nice offensive series there. Hot Luis Matos. Let's go on the second half of the show. And usually that kicks off with standout performances. It's time for standout. Standout. Standout performances. Stand out performances. This guy stood out for Trev. Say what? Standout performances is brought to you by Skims.

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where I lean. Sporty guy. First AOL name was sports Jake. Shop Skims, the official underwear partner of the NBA, WNBA, USA Basketball at skims.com. Let them know we sent you. After you place your order, select podcast in the survey and select our show in the drive. down menu skims. Trev, where are you going? I'm going with my guys, Stephen Kwan, and I can't believe we didn't really get into this series. It was the return of the king.

I had that written down. Scott Kingery for the Angel. Oh, I thought you were saying Mike Trell. No, Scott Kingery, bro. What are you talking about? Yeah, I'm going Stephen Kwan. On Saturday, he goes three for five, double a homer, drives and runs, steals a base.

And my takeaway here, and the reason I gave him this award is, an 807 OPS on the year 129 OPS plus he's already racked up 2.6 B war where would the Guardians be without Stephen Kwan look obviously Jose Ramirez is the guy there but right now you're talking about any sort of semblance of an OPS

Carlos Santana by the way has been banging the ball lately he's got his OPS up the 7772 the only two people OPS is over 800 are Stephen Quorn and Jose Ramirez so he obviously has been a massive factor 18 walks to 22 strikeouts on the year Jake and I just don't understand Cleveland at all they're in a playoff spot they're in second place in the central I'm just going to give you some stats 24th in average 21st in OPS 21st in runs okay 19th and stolen bases

they're pitching staff starting pitchers 22nd ERA 30th in walks per 9 26th and whip okay the relief pitchers 20th and whip 16th in the ARA 20th second and hits per nine. Somehow they have a 32 and 26 record and they are in a playoff spot. That is Cleveland Guards baseball. They find ways to win. I don't understand it. Obviously, Stephen Cohn is a big part of it. Just love, love his game. I wish more guys could play that way, but not a lot of guys can because you have to be incredible with the bat. How are the guardians winning games, Jake, all the time? This is just what they do. It feels like they're playing a different sport or something, and we don't know.

rules to it. And one guy does something in every game. Well, it's Jose Ramirez and Kwan, and then it's like Manzardo or Schneeman or someone. It was Gabrielle Aris, this series. His hair was flowing. It's a good one, Trev. Anytime there's Stephen Kwan, I like that. Hey, Trev, I went past Cubs Reds quickly because I didn't want to.

to get talk about Pete Crowe Armstrong and how he's been one of the best players in baseball, and who is Michael Bush, and Nico Horner's underrated, because the Cubs kind of dominated the series. Ian Hap, Kyle Tucker, the whole crew, except one game, and where the Reds got back to 500, and then they lost two games. Andrew Abbott won his third straight start, seven innings pitch, one hit, one walk. I like a guy that doesn't have to light up the radar gun. This is true. Andrew Abbott sits like 91.

It's got the pitch mix going on. And Trev, have a May, a 055 ERA over six starts in May. That's the lowest amongst all qualified starters. So all the guys you're freaking out about and are in the Cy Young race and all that stuff. Andrew Abbott, there's been two months of this season. For one month, Andrew Abbott was the best pitcher at allowing. earn runs. And that 055 ERA is the third lowest ERA in a calendar month by any Reds pitcher since 1912.

John Franco have him as a historic reliever in my mind, 0.3 in August of 85. And then your boy, Dolf Lucie. That's right, Dolf Lucie in June of 23, 1923. That's why you sent that to our chat, okay. And by the way, if you could show the picture, Rob. Yep, there's listed 5 foot 7, Dolph Luki, who by the way, had a hell of a career. A Cuban ball player, Trev, who was over in Cincinnati in 1918.

What was that life like? I don't know. I feel like it had to be different than mine. Although yet 5-7-160, maybe we aren't that different. Dolph. Lucie, aka... I would have taken Dolph Lucke's. so far up top. The pride of Havana. I think he mows your ass down. I'm going to be honest with you. No chance. I normally level out with you if I'm like, yeah, you've got that guy. I think

Lukie has you in a spin cycle. I hit Homer and I charge the mound on him. I think his spitball is untouchable. You know, I love Cuban ball players, though. I know you do. And I couldn't believe 48.2 career war, 3,000 plus innings for Dolph, Lucie. Hey, Andrew Abbott, I hope he's the next Stolf Lucie. He's been great, and it's part of the Reds frustration that you hearing us almost every episode now. Andrew Abba, I was watching that start, and the arm action on all his pitches is so good.

And it just keeps guys, the timing is off, and he's able to manipulate, you know, the speed on each of his pitches, and he's just, he's a, he's like, he's what she won out of a lefty, dude. Yes, that's a great way to put it. That's a great way to put it. I love it. And he's been a stud, obviously.

Yeah. Man, his baseball savant, there's a lot of, there's, you know what? Dude, this is so dumb because he's got a lot of red on there. I like when you say blood red on a baseball savant. That does something for me. Like his blue things are fastball velo, which, okay, if it doesn't matter, like that blue shouldn't even be on the screen. And then it's ground ball percentage.

He's a fly ball pitcher. So the two things that are like blue, don't matter for what he's doing. Like, I know, I don't know. I'm going to have to workshop that, because his page should look more red than it is. Reds? Okay.

Trev, there was a ton of options, because like I mentioned, the Dodgers just pumped the yanks around the yard for two days, along with everyone else in baseball who had a big weekend. Your guy, Sam Haggerty. There's got to be some good in Fuego, no? Dirt Nasty's on Fuego. That means I'm on fire, baby, like Waco.

There's a lot of guys on this list right now. For the series, we talked a little bit about Ernie Clement, but he went 11 for 18. Four doubles, two homer, six runs driven in. He talked about the impending return of Andres Jimenez. Well, probably push Ernie Clement over to third base. It doesn't matter. He's going to rig. Junior Caminero coming on for the raise.

Big part of why they're playing great. seven for 17, three doubles, three homers on Saturday, Jake. He became the first player in Ray's history. A vaunted Ray's history with four extra base hits and five runs driven in in the same game. And then also on that Saturday, that was the first time he's had a multi-homer game in his career. So shout out Junior Camerro. Marcus Simeon, the long-awaited breakout. Seven for eight in the series, two, or excuse me, a double a homer, three runs driven.

he raised his batting average from 173 to 201. It's the highest has been since opening day. Obviously, they need him to get going. The whole Rangers' offense in its entirety needs to get going. Simeon would be a welcome sign for them. Max Muncie, same thing. He struggled early on in the season with the Dodgers, but he's been raking as of late in this series,

five for ten, three homers, eight runs driven in. Those homers were his 200 and 201st homers in his. career and he had seven runs driven in on Saturday. My goodness. Mike Toceman went six for 12. Shout out Mike Toceman still doing it. Okay. Six for 12, two doubles, a triple a homer, two runs driven in in the series for the White Sox. Shout the White Sox. For the week, Josh Bell, we mentioned the Nats and some of their offense going. Josh Bell is a part of that. Nine for 23. Three homer, seven runs driven in in the series. This guy's been great all season long. Andy Pahe, another Cuban ball play. He went nine.

for 24 in the series. A double two homers, eight runs driven him. Now, Pott has been great all season in situational hitting. He's slugging 432 with two strikes this season. That's the third best in the National League. And he's batting 3.92 with runners in scoring position this season. That's fourth best in all the baseball. That's an area just want to be good at.

Hit with runners and scoring position. That's all you need. Jeremy Pena, he's been lights out this season. Oh, is he a star? Don't call him a star. He only puts up three and a half to four more every year. You guys don't even know what a star is. Sorry.

It's okay. Superstar star. Okay, guys. Jerry Paine is a star in my book. 10 for 23 for the week, a double three homers. Five runs driven in. Cal Raleigh, dude, you could talk all day about this dude. For the week, eight for 23, Jake, eight hits, cool.

Six homers. Silly. Ten runs driven. He reminds you right now, like the SWALY, wing and just the dangerous nature of his at bats, Prince Fielder, like prime Prince Fielder. Oh, okay. If I had to shoot a guess, I was going to say Jim Tomey.

I think it's more Prince Fielder. Yeah, no, it's fine. He's big, like Jim. I don't know. You just put me on the spot there, and I know how much you love Jim Tomey. First catcher in Major League history to reach at least 20 homers before the end of May.

We talked about that. He actually finished with 22 of them things in May. How about the pitchers who shove? And the Blue Jays needed this one, Jose Berrios on Thursday. six innings pitched, two hits, no runs, nine Ks. He's allowed three ball counts to just 10% of right-handed hitters he's faced this season, Jake, that's the lowest in Majority Baseball.

If you can avoid the three-ball counts, that's great. Yeah. Good job. All the Orioles pitchers threw really well in the series against the White Sox. But Eflin, oh, we're going to talk about more than two. Eflin in particular, seven-nage pitchers pitchers, you're earned runs. It's the first time in Orioles pitch are through seven shoutout innings since Dean Kramer

on May 2nd. Jose Soriano of the Angels did it for the game that they won in their series. Six in these pitches, zero earned runs. He leads qualified majorly pitchers with a 66% ground ball rate. Zach Lattel, we talked about the pitches he threw.

He gets the complete game in that shalacking of the ashes, nine innings pitch. He gives up 10 hits, but only one walk strikes out six. It's the first complete game since Ryan Yarbrough, your Ryan Yarbrough, on June 3rd of 2021. So that was 647 games between

complete games. Charlie Morton, your guy, the saltman, he did it. Six and two-thirds innings pitch, zero earned runs for him. He became the oldest pitcher in Orioles history to have a start without allowing an earned run. How old is he? 43? 41. 41. That's not even that old.

I'm almost there, Charlie Moran. Don't make me feel old. Are you turning 4-0 this year? I'm turning 39 in 13 days. Okay. It was, you know... Yeah, tell me about that. You and me had been on edge anyway if we had to do that.

We'll get there next year. 39 so fine. Treve, that was beautiful, man. And yeah, I was debating if we should have an Orioles conversation, but they're, what they've done, it's not time. You've done this to yourselves. Not time. You got Barrios.

Love that for him. All right. These are the guys we're trying to spark. And it's worked a couple times. I think George Springer was on this. He had a weekend. You got a new one for this, Bob, right? Amen.

Royce Lewis, Treff. I didn't know it was like this. Yeah, it goes back into last year. year as well. One for 32. Man, it was one of those, it doesn't matter. When he said he doesn't slump, that I think every baseball person was like, son, you got something coming your way. I know he's one of the nicest guys in the world. You told us the Twins facility told him to stop saying thank you so much. So I don't know.

No one roots against that guy, but you say those words in its dangerous territory. I guess you mentioned it before. Is there anything else we can do for Royce? He's got the leg situation for me. Okay. He just, he's not grounded right now. And he's had, he's had knee problems. He's had leg problems. So I don't know if he's at 100% strength with them right now.

But that to me looks like the problem. The foundation isn't there. Well, and you know why, again, I didn't want that to come off as Royce. What are you saying, dude? It's just everyone slumps ever. Fernando Tatis Jr. is six for 48. six for 48 a 114 batting average he's also struggling with his lower half and figuring out timing mechanisms right these guys like they got to get grounded pop grounded so everyone wants to get that extra power from the leg kick that makes it your head starts moving

a hitter uh c j abrams i think i was just starting to hype him up he's he's put together a six for 42 uh the past couple weeks uh batting a hundred that's bad not not a hundred that's bad not not a hundred in a good way, dot 100. Pitches in the strike zone. So, pitchers are going to come at you if that's happening. Matt McLean, a 6 for 41, that's tough. He, the injuries and what he had done previously, struggling with the Velo right now.

And Hunter Goodman, the catcher from Iraqis, kind of one of the bright spots for a little bit. He's in a 7 for 47. So, hey, if you're on that list, that means we're trying to get you off that list. And this is just the lowest part of the show. It's just being honest with the people because now we jump to the aisle. Because this is important.

You got to know who's on the field. And this is, it's a thickums this week. Lucas Urseg for the Royals. He's been really good. They're hoping two to three weeks with a lower back. Stuart Fairchild and Austin Hayes. I like the way they play. Jackson Job, little elbow stuff for Detroit.

Let's see what happens there. Cedric Mullins with a right hammy for the Orioles 11th player on the O's IL. Anthony Santander left shoulder stuff. He's kind of been going through it most of this year. Lane Thomas, Chas McCormick, oblique for Houston. Ryan Mountcastle. I mean, Nathan Avaldi for Texas right tricep tightness. Expect it to be the minimum.

So let's knock on some wood there. You mentioned Dalton Varshow earlier in the show. Jordan Walker. There's a lot of relievers. Hendricks like this is this is deep. Luckily we do have some dudes coming back and how about a couple Minnesota twins?

You mentioned the Minnesota Moose, Matt Walner, thrown out at home. We didn't love to send. Byron Buxton, back for your twins as well. Seth Lugo for Kansas City is in the building. David Frye, remember? That's how Cleveland wins games, Trev.

And Jose Cantana, who had another good start, and just a reminder like literally every team could have had them. Like every team needs starting pitching. I think the Brewers technically got him one year for 4.25 just at the end. And all he does is pitch good every year. So I don't, I don't know. That's where I wish our analytics department was a little more involved. And the young prince, Tyro Estrada for Colorado. Where's he playing after the trade deadline? That's who's back from the IL. Let's start the week the right way. I am going with the hold the door. Whoa.

Now this is up your alley. I know you're a GOT type guy. I am. So, I mean, Hodor is one of, you know, the most loved characters on the show. And there's kind of some weird stuff going on there. We see him as this guy who obviously has a mental condition.

And he keeps saying, hold the door, Hold door, Hodor, Hodor. That's why they call him that. He meets his unfortunate hand doing that, holding the door to protect Brand. Spoiler. It gets revealed in the show that Brand. Spoiler.

Spoiler alert. Yeah, just want to get in front of it. Come on, if you don't watch Game of Thrones now. Yeah. Sorry. Okay, spoiler. I should have said it. Maybe Prove will add that in post.

I don't know. It gets revealed in the show that it's actually Brand is responsible for him becoming that way. He goes back in time, enters Hodor's brain when he's a young kid and tells him to hold the door. and then he just gets that in his mind and can never escape and it's just kind of a bad look for Bran all the way around.

Do people even like the character, Brand? I don't. I didn't. No. Okay. So, you know, but Hodor is one of the, you know, most likable characters in the show sacrifices himself for the greater good, um,

protects Brand and the crew. One guy who's not holding the door he's barging through it. Oh, Jake. Wow. Is Addison barger up there in Toronto? Now we mentioned they've been playing better ball as of late. They get the four-game sweep of the A's to put them over 500 and hopefully they'll stay there for good.

I want to see this Blue Jays team do well. They go. They extend Vladie. They got to figure out what they're going to do with Bo Bichette. But if you want to be a good team, you have to have guys step up. for you. You can't just have your superstars doing superstar things. You have to have supplemental pieces on the roster. And it looks like they've found one. Ernie Clement, you're doing your thing as well. But Adamson Barger, there's a lot of talk about this guy up here.

And if you go on his savant page, it's for good reason. This guy is absolutely raking. 92nd percentile and expected Wobah. 94th percentile and expected batting average. He's hitting 267, but he's hitting the ball so well. His expected batting average is 306. The average exit velocity, Jake, 95.1, that's the 99th percentile. He's built like a linebacker, 6 foot 2, 10. He's playing great defense at third base right now. Like I mentioned, he might have to go out to right field,

but he's doing it all, Jake. So you're getting an Ernie Clement, you're getting an Addison Barger. you add that to what the, you know, the Jays already have there. George Springer having kind of a resurgence season. I know he just struggled a little bit, but got out of it and glad he doing his thing. Like there's a chance here now that we are seeing,

I guess not technically like a new core, but a bigger core. If Clement and Barger are there together, and that just kind of changes, I think, the trajectory of the Blue Jays franchise. You can't have it. it just be Vladdy. Like we have to have a guy step up and young guys who are making a league minimum, this all helps. Him becoming a guy guy and Ernie Clement doing his thing. I said that just

changes kind of everything. So we have been waiting. Someone's been holding the door for us. We've been waiting for the Blue Jays to figure something out. Maybe they just needed the barge right on through because we could see them end up being a playoff team if these things all come in together Jake Addison barger is a huge part of you haven't watched him uh go check him out it's it's a fun watch well done trev win five w five for the blue jays they are you know if the season ended today it's june second uh they're a half game out of the wild card like the a l wild card is wide open. And yeah, I was going through Toronto stats before the episode,

and it's interesting because nobody, it's not someone's going nuts. Like, Vladdy's kicking into gear, but he hasn't gone nuts yet. But it's almost, it's looking like, again, and this has been a big Brewer's episode where Brewers, Guardians, it's like contributions, like everyone contributes.

They kind of have that. Like, Kirk contributes, Vladi, Jimenez is coming back. Bo, Barger. Um, Miles Straw, Springer, Clement, Nathan Lucas, Varschow, like, I just named 11 guys. Like, you're, you're getting a lot of help. Santander has been a little bit of a black hole for them, and he goes to the IL. So it's, it's one of those, they have a lot of dudes contributing, and when that works. And again, I hope it's not just an athletic series, because they've really been in it.

This Blue Jays recipe should work better than it has, and maybe this is the start. Yeah, I mean, the bullpen's been really good. I think they have, like, kind of reliable starting pitching as well. Like, we can see this turn into something. There's a formula here for the Blue Jays. And sometimes it's as easy as just having some of the young guys overperform or become stars. Hodor. Hey, fantastic.

I know I already said this, but well done, Trev. And I just caught my left arm popping a little bit on the YouTube. And okay, okay, Jakey, I see a little guy. I'm a Game of Thrones guy. I think it's the number one show ever. I know the ending stinks. Stinks. I rewatched it.

I rewatched it and it's true. Like the generic statement, if you rewatch it, the ending doesn't feel as bad. It's true because you weren't caught up in like the cycle of every week, the final season. Spoiler alert.

The dragon, spoiler alert. The dragon flaming the throne is ridiculous. You're not wrong. You're not wrong. And who ends up on that thing? Spoiler, spoiler, spoiler. They got mocked a little bit earlier in this.

One of the worst characters? Hodor, in that scene, in that moment, I think elevates Game of Thrones above everything else. That is, I mean, how long is, that's a five-season nothing that turns into just a, like, that's one of those George Lucas. George Lucas was, who was that? from the Reds I was talking about. Why are you talking about George Lucas?

George R. Martin. George R. Martin. Oh, thank you. Sorry about my kind of scary geeks. I'll give my award. And it's brought to you by the Draft King Sportsbook. Make sure you guys go to Draft Kings. Use code J.M. Baseball.

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What's he doing? What's a day in his life like? I don't know. Treve, I'm giving out the Clockwork Award. We've been at this for a few years now talking baseball. 2019? Something like that. And there's some things that have just been clockwork.

And it's every year. And I give this part of the speech where I'm like, do we talk about Otani enough? Do we talk about Judge enough, like Jose Ramirez. Again, there's a lot of, there's a lot of those guys that we do. Like, we cover the game, we love the game, and it's hard to give guys love every day, but the studs end up there.

This guy is kind of your sunny gray ace adjacent. Like, you wouldn't list him as one of the top aces of base. I don't know. I guess maybe you'll counter me. Okay. Because every year he does the same thing, the same thing, and he's there for the postseason, and he has some bold on his pages,

and a lot of them are complete games or shutouts. This year he's leading baseball with two complete games. It's going to Framber Valdez, and he has just been a favorite of this show ever since you laid eyes on him. Kind of that thick body. He just toys with hitters, man. You talked about what you want.

from a lefty. Framber just toys with hitters. He gets better as the game goes on. If there's a big game, I know, I think last postseason he ran out of steam just a little bit. Wearing clearly fake hair, the undersized glove and the thick body. Wait, he's got fake hair?

I think he openly talks about it. Yeah, he changes it for like whatever he wants to do. And since 2020, man, this guy has been automatic. He's a 312 ERA. In each year, like the biggest variance, his lowest is 291 last season. His highest was a 3-4-5. So, like, how good this guy is year-in, year out. And yeah, it depends like an ace conversation.

He's never finished higher than 5th in the Cy Young, which, again, what standard are we holding him to? But he's been a staple of this Houston Astros team that is in it year-in-year-in-year-out. haven't talked about them a ton. Somehow they're a half game behind the Mariners, which we talk about every episode. And it's just time to talk about Framber and the stability that he brings to that team and being one of the best pitchers in baseball and an upcoming free agency if you're, if you want to start dreaming about your team's offseason. So it's Framber time for me. seventh in F war since the 2020 season. The guys in front of him are actually kind of shocking.

Zach Wheeler, not shocking. Corbyn's not shocking. Kevin Gossman, third overall in that time. That is a little shocking to me. Logan Webb, Aaronola, Dillen Cis, Framberbaldes. He's in front of guys like Max Fried, Garrett Cole, Luis Castillo, Pablo Lopez, who's been absolutely filthy since 2020.

Scoobel, but these are guys, some of them haven't pitched a lot since 2020, but you know top seven pitcher right pitcher in baseball i give an ace yeah he's an ace yeah it's if you think if it's top 30 pitchers in baseball if every team should have an ace it's easy i don't think every team has an ace i've even said that about my twins i don't know if there's an ace there right and maybe they're going to change my mind because i do think there is you know it's not just you're the best pitcher on your team that doesn't make you an ace like an ace is someone that you think you put them in a playoff game and they're going to dominate.

Like Framber's that guy. Yeah, that's true. I mean, he's got a little bit of that to him. I guess it's just if we're saying, if we were having like a who's the best pitcher in baseball argument, by the time you start getting to Framber, you're like, well, you know, he's not scuba. Like, and very few players ever get to where scuba is there right now. Scoob, Wheeler.

Okay. I mean, I get what you're saying. Yeah. But yeah. And, hey, at the same time, okay, if he does it. have that scoble insane mode, he has the regularity that he does it every year, that that should be valued.

Like, in a way, that is an ace. Like, I would take that argument that there's no year on his baseball card that you're like, oh, yeah, Framber just didn't have it that year. He had a four-three. Like, no. Who'd you compare him too early? You said Framber Valdez. I said, sunny gray.

I threw out a sunny gray, and then I went back to, Adolf Luque. Sunny Gray is eighth in F4 right behind Frammer Valdez. At a boy pop. That's why you're the best in the bid. Come on. Spit on me. And the show, Bobba, with putting me throwing the football with Joe Ryan and get the freaking

music, okay? God. I love that you wear your glove in the booth. I love it. I bring it everywhere. Even when I'm like going around the clubhouse, I have my glove. Yeah, I mean that starts getting a slightly closer to serial killer, but it's... Dude, I like play like when they're doing infield drills, I'll catch for them on the side.

I'm not going to apologize for loving, like playing catch, bro. Sorry. Don't apologize. I hate playing catch with you. You always, you always test me first throw. Let me get warm. I don't play catch regularly.