Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - Reacting to MLB Network's Top 100 MLB List | 1088

Episode Date: January 28, 2026

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Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball. We are going through the top 100 players from MLB Network. What did they get wrong? We'll tell them, because we know ball. We know ball. Where's Nico Horner? Where's Ian Hap? Eric Cole.

Weston Wilson. Oh, out. See ya. Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball, January 28th, 2026. What? All of those, all of those feel wrong. The month feels wrong. The days feel wrong and the years feel wrong,

which means we're sneaking up on baseball season. One more football game left. Sorry to me and Trev's teams. And then spring training guys are reporting in like less than two weeks Coach Trevor Plouffe coming live from Calabasas, California. I'm starting to get that itch. You know, that off-season it's like, hey, like, here's baseball, the tingly feeling. It's a little bit of dread, a little bit of anxiety knowing that, you know, we got a pretty full schedule during the baseball scenes.

But also, it's mostly just love knowing that I'll get to talk to you more. And we're going to have, like, fun stuff to talk about. What did we kind of do today? I'm excited to do this one because I have some interesting points on the guys that I'm going to get to. But, Jakey, boy, let me tell you this. I'm excited for your day today. Can you share what you're doing? I cannot.

So thanks for bringing it up. Yes. Guy, guess what? Jake's doing something pretty cool. Doing something cool today. Helping, making baseball a better place. So yeah, no. We were specifically told not to share that information.

So I don't know. You already told me. I'll let the people know when I'm responsible for winning a team of World Series. I guess that's all I can say about that. Maybe one of my retirement teams, maybe a team in the greater northeast area. They like what Poppy's putting down. Anyways, I've said too much.

Trev, we, you know, I feel like a lot of shows and even the MLB network, the MLB network, I watched a chunk of their top 100 series featured on an episode. That's not a big deal. But, you know, it's, everyone kind of tries to find their way to go through it. I will tell you what, talked to Greg Amsinger a little bit, flex, tall, handsome, loves baseball. I was worried I was going to meet Greg Amsinger, and he was just going to be a tall, handsome guy that's taken over MLB Network, but not like a ball. His office looks like a St. Louis Cardinals version. of Ray Finkel's room,

but like in a positive note. Like, it is covered in birds. The man loves ball. And he's like, dude, me and Carabas were on an episode, your nemesis. And he was like... I like Jared.

You're like, we both like Jared. He went to Jared. He was like, he's like, man, the players take this shit so seriously. He's like, we get so much. much crap over this list. How can you think this guy's better than me? How can I not be higher on the list?

And I love it, Coach Trev, because all these guys are dogs. We go to the same thing every single time we put out of a list. It's what happens. People like their guys. People love their guys. People love themselves. And they should. That's a good life goal for people.

Yeah, I agree with that. Goal for me this year. Okay. That, yeah, we were wondering. We think we might gamify this a little bit. We might try to do a little guys who we think are going to be higher on the list next year and try to do some math out of that, analytics. But yeah, we just want to yuck ball about this list, some things that stood out to us.

We mostly want to give some guys love. Maybe we do a little, maybe a guy has a little too much love. I don't know. That's not necessarily our lane, but I try to be fair for the people. I don't love the, how is, how is Horn and not on the, how is happening on? Well, if you're putting people on, you got to take people off. And that's, uh, that's the tricky part, coach. Oh, you want, you want to drag someone down underwater.

I didn't see that. I didn't say that. I didn't say that. I'll do it. I'll do it. Respectfully. Respectfully. Yeah, I don't know how we're going to start this.

I think that is, how about this? Yeah. There's a clear Cubs bias here. And we're not going to stand for it at all. Yeah. Because a couple guys that we think probably should be on the list that aren't on the list. And there's one that stood out. And I think a lot of people have this take.

And he is a very, what's the word I'm looking for? Polarizing baseball player. Okay. That's Nico Horner. Yeah. He was not on the list. And we know what he does really well. And I'm not really sure if that was just an oversight.

I want to know the model. We give our model when we do. all JM team. We least have some stats that we always kind of go to for a tie break remote. I'm curious to see why, if they've answered the question why Nico's not here, because obviously this is a very valuable

baseball player. Most of that value coming from his defense, but he can also run the bases. Obviously, high contact oriented guy. He's a ball player. He's a guy that you need in your line that you can't just have, it's impossible to put together just a bunch of sluggers. You need a guy like Nico.

can kind of put pressure on the defense, get the ball rolling, and he's got the run prevention skill, which I think is very, very important. You have to have guys that steal runs from the other team. You just have to have that. It's just fundamentally and mentally, you got to have guys like that in your team. So, you know,

we're showing a few Nico highlights here on the screen, and he's a dog out there. Yeah, I guess there is an interesting cubby, conversation and I don't know I'm internally laughing because we did talk about a lot of what to talk about this episode and we never said let's open with the Cubs. But here we are.

That, yeah, I think it's kind of interesting that Okay, our guy in Hap is not on this list who is basically four war every year, switch hitting gold glove corner outfield. Horner, you know, he was a six B war last year because of all the things you talked about, speed, contact, defense. And if someone listens to the show and you get thrown off, and we'll probably, we might even poop on defensive analytics later,

it doesn't match the eye test and it matches it in droves. Like what Nico Horner does defensively on the field is special and changes games, that, yeah, I mean, there's an argument. He was the best player on the Cubs last year, who now have four players on this year's list, Bregman, PCA, Bush, and Sayah, that you could do a really interesting Cubs kind of Spider-Man finger-pointing gift

where it's like, well, Horner's more important. Well, actually, Hap's more important. Well, you know, if you did say a hap and Horner, if you did votes around the league, I could see that being split 33.3% repeating all around. So you're saying there's a clear anti-Cubs bias here. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, I mean, like, if you,

If you like consistency, I mean, that's these, the couple guys you talked about and happened, Horner, I mean, they're going to give you, like you said, straight up four win seasons every single year. And I saw this, this is an article by Ben Clemens and Fangrass. He's, he made this point. I'm actually going to steal this from him all the time. Wow. He's a true shortstop playing second base. And so oftentimes we see guys, I talk about about guys moving around the diamond and that can be a bad thing at times.

Well, if you're moving short stops around, it's usually a good thing. So obviously Dansby's there at short, Nico at second, but I like that. A true shortstop playing second base, and it shows with the way that he is rangy over there and consistent over there. And that's another thing.

He plays, man, he posts. He posts, and that's, I left this guy out of the, the Cubs Spider-Man meme pointing, but I could throw one more in. Like, doesn't Dansby have a conversation? Like, he's the guy who is playing shortstop. Danby,

Dansby casually had a four and a half war last year. And okay, if you're going to point to Nico's power and that's where we're going to chop him down, Dansby with a sneaky little 24 homers steel, or 24 homers 20 steel season while playing that level of shortstop. So yeah, I wonder if, you know, when the MLB network producers and Dalton's were coming up with this list, did they just look at those like final three Cubs and we're like, I think we're out. We just can't do it. You know who I blame? What do you blame? Craig Counsel.

Wow. Yeah. Wow. I don't even know why I said that. Because it's time we start pointing the finger back at managers. Craig was in my debut. He's playing third base in my debut. I didn't know that. Yeah. Craig Counsel.

Craig Counsel. Is he more stoic than Ian Hap? I think I would like hanging out with Craig Counsel more than I put off. I feel like I talk a lot of crap about Craig counsel on the show and I don't really have a reason why. I think it's, it was mostly just the poster that he had nothing to do with. It was not involved in that transaction.

And he took a job where he got paid more money. Yeah, I love you, Craig. Maybe it's a big Craig. Actually, people forget, I'm a St. Louis Cardinals fan this year because me and Ali Marmal at winter meetings. That's so true. I mean, yes, that poster was ridiculous, though.

People don't know there was a Cubs Fest poster. It was the offseason where Craig left Milwaukee to go to Chicago. So it was like a concert poster. And the headliners get the big names. And it was Craig Counsel was the headliner. Him and Jed Hoyer. It was a Lala Palooza play on a poster. They had Hall of Famers in the tiniest letters.

Anyways, those Cubs days are gone. I think they've learned from that. The Cubs are back. Hey, let's talk about the stuff we said we were going to talk about. Let's do a, I got excited. And we got jazzed up. Why wouldn't you? Let's do some guys.

Let's give love. This is what we do best. Guys that we saw on the list that we think were misplaced and need to be higher. Again, maybe we'll use some math and standard deviation on how high these guys climb the list next year. But Trev, you raised your hand. Yeah. My thought process, the guys that I picked were I don't care where they're on the list this year. They're going to be higher next year.

Okay. I'm going to give you why. I think that's fine. I think that works because originally we did some quadrant stuff and it was getting, I don't know, it was getting a little March madnessy, like picking your teams from each quadrant and we got lost in the math. Then why don't you kick off, Coach Treve? I guess when you looked at the top 100 players, which if you haven't seen the list, I guess you go to MLB Network or maybe will post it somewhere as well.

I guess who's the number one guy you thought stood out as just being in the wrong spot? Again, not in the wrong spot for me. This is a guy who I think is going to climb up next year. So this year he was ranked 52 overall. He was ranked 31 in 2025. He is a tall, handsome, rangy shortstop. That's my type, Jake. I mean, I like what I like.

it's Ellie Daily Cruz. So I think when talking about Ellie, you understand what you're going to get. It's elite athleticism, like I said, super rangy, he's to swipe you bags. He throws bullets across the diamond. The one thing that I think a lot of people point to is high K percentage. Like the guy's going to strike out a bunch. The offensive profile really hasn't been there for him just yet. So I think that is something that we can look at easy. Okay, well, his K percentage has dropped over the last three seasons,

2023, 33.7, 31.3, 25.9. So as he's getting older, because he's still 23 years old, I believe. He just turned 24 on January 11th. So happy birthday. 24 years old, a fresh 24. This guy still has many, many years to go and to hone his craft. And that's what he's essentially doing. The more pitches he sees, I believe the K percentage will continue to drop. He's the guy that can hit the ball at the ballpark. If he starts to put the ball and play more, he can use the speed. Like, there's just so many things. I believe just by playing more games, Ellie's offensive profile is going to continue to tick up. Okay. So that's easy to me. We're going to see him go. And then people are going to say, well, okay, Trev, what about his defense?

What's going on there? He's led the league in airs. Like, he's a guy. that I think a lot of people, if you watch and play, you understand this guy gets to a ton of balls. It gets to a ton of balls, but he has trouble with like the routine play. To that, I say, if he makes it a point

to work on his defense, that will also go away. Now, here's where the mental part comes in. We heard the Reds president come out and say that they wanted to give him what would have been the richest contract in Red's history.

and he turned it down. When that pressure's out there, I feel like it drives you to do two things. You either go on your shell and get all nervous, or you say, oh, shit, I'm going to go out there and prove everyone why I did this. And I think Ellie is the latter right there. So that means you're going to go.

Hold on. It means you're going to go. You're going to go more reps defensively. Ellie, I've said this so many times on the show. You can out rep bad defense. Go out there, take as many reps, throw the ball across the dime as much as you can. The range and everything keeps this guy as a positive defender.

It's the misplays on the easy plays that end up kind of costing him defensively. So he has a ton of room to grow defensively as well. And then I was reading this article about, it was on fan graphs as well, talking about Ellie's throwing airs. And I'm like, hey, I used to have throwing errors. Let me go check what's going on. So he essentially he throws the ball very, very hard. And when he throws the ball in the dirt, like first basemen are just not scooping it.

They're not picking his throws. So they're saying, A, you just got to get better at throwing more accurately, which again comes from reps or B. Like if someone's over there that's actually going to pick those balls this year, like he can add a few runs to his defensive metrics. So like there's like really simple, easy things for Ellie to do that will count. catapult him into superstardom because he still has the range. He has the arm. He's got the speed. He has everything there.

It's these little like sharpening, like sharpening the edges a little bit for him. Easy stuff defensively. Easy stuff that's going to happen naturally, offensively. I think Ellie's going to catapult. It wouldn't surprise me if Ellie went from 52 this year, Jake, to like top 25. It's all the talent in the world. And you do have to take a step back. and, you know, some of your team's favorite prospects that you've been talking yourself into this offseason,

they're 24. So, like, the fact that Ellie de la Cruz is going to be 24 years old this year is insane. And I guess where I took a, I'm starting to do my tier list with Jolly Olive on WakenJay. The people love them. And I'm a man of the people. my Ellie de la Cruz speech was pretty similar all the way through the midway point of last season like man Ellie continues to get better at every facet of the game second half he kind of the wheels came off last year coach trev which you know the reds who ended up making the postseason they people forget they face the Dodgers in that first round um they could have used a little more

Ellie down the stretch. He played 162, and like you talked about posting and, hey, the bumps and bruises that could hit you throughout a season, and one of the guys I'm going to hype up definitely had some injury stuff that you can point to. Two names came to mind with Elie de la Cruz, and both are wins, but both lead to very different conversations. The one guy that I feel like I talked about in an Ellie de la Cruz way that I was about to give a speech saying, like, this year for Ellie is a big one. Because you're saying, like, hey, put in the work defensively at Shortsop and take another leap. And obviously the talent is there in a way you need to see it that I was going to compare him to Julio Rodriguez,

we saw what Julio did last year. And with the talent, everything that happened made sense. That you could see that for Ellie in an instant. Like, I feel like every time we do our annual sports betting episode, it's like, hey, do you sprinkle a little bit on Ellie winning MVP? Because when it clicks, it's that kind of potential. The other guy that came up for me when you think about where L.A. Dela Cruz is at, Fernando!

Remember when Fernando played Shortstop? Okay. He has all the armed talent in the world, and he's an incredible athlete. You and me, if we were running some front office, we probably would have said, he's going to figure it out at shortstop. He's, look at this kid. He's got, he's athletic, he's got a freaky arm, it's going to click. They moved him to the outfield, and we were kind of like,

yeah, let's see. Well, he kind of, he won the platinum glove playing right field. So I'm kind of in a weird spot right now where I'm like, hmm, I've seen Ellie make the highlights at shortstop and those are amazing because you don't see a lot of six, five dudes that play shortstop with that kind of ability. Also, I'm kind of like, hey, if we slid him out to right and he bought in, could he sneakily rack up more?

more war and be. Fernando's, I think Fernando landed 15th on this list. And where his stats are offensively are a lot more in a realm that Ellie could get to easily this year that I don't know. I'm kind of racking my brain value-wise that it's, in theory, it makes more sense to keep him at short. But we could have said that with Fernando and now he's become an all-world player. I thought about that as well.

I think that's a kind of a common consensus amongst red fans. Like, hey, like, maybe he might be better suited for the outfield. And, you know, and there's a couple of different schools of thought on that on position changes. It's like, okay, well, it could alleviate a lot of stress defensively for Ellie. You're shortstop. I mean, your mind's going a mile a minute out there. You're the captain of the infield. You got to, you got to understand where you're supposed to be every single pitch.

In the outfield, it's much more reactionary and athletic, essentially. Like, yeah, like, you have to understand counts and guys. swings and you just or you can just look at your hat i guess if you wanted to so your piece of paper um so you could say hey he's going to be way more confident at the plate because he's not worrying about that defensively the other aspect to that is like will his a bats drag into his mind more right if he's going through a struggle because sometimes you're out on the outfield like all right what's going on out of here well i'll tell i'll tell rob to not play the tape but go you know go go watch O'Neal Cruz's plays from last year and those got, I mean, those look bored. So I, I'd

like a bored man in the outfield. I want to keep Ellie in the infield. That's kind of my goal. Fernando is a great comp and, you know, that's kind of like the high bar there. And there's other guys that you could say when on the outfield didn't go so well. Ellie has the skills for it, no doubt. I believe the, um, the ball he ranged to. like the fly ball he ranged and ran like a hundred and seventy feet to catch it it was rated like the hardest play that was turned into an out last year so he he can go get he can go get the ball yeah so maybe that is in the cards um but again i just think through just like just reps man just reps and then a natural progression at the plate i said top 25 i mean this he has the potential

to be top 10 on this list yeah and i think it's um you know i i guess if something could happen lefties, like that's clearly his weaker side of the platoon, but that if you got to pick a weaker side of the platoon, that's what you would pick. His stolen bases did drop last year from, from, he's dealing with the quad injury in a second half. Absolutely. Let's get the guy healthy. I mean, there's, he has not done 30, 30 yet.

That seems inevitable to me. Yeah. That's my first guy. It's a different era of baseball where a few guys have gone 30, 30, a little. little easier now. But everything makes sense with Ellie that, yeah, I'm with you. If he continued on his first pace, if he continued on his first half pace, he probably would have been like, probably around that Fernando range of like a top 15 players. So you mentioned the hamstring injury. He's 24 years old. And yeah, Cincinnati's ready. And hey, maybe Ellie turning down that extension.

maybe he's a little more. That's what I'm saying. I think he's probably juiced up. And who did we need over at first base with Ellie? There's the play. Oh, my God. Paul Goldschmidt. Who's the best scooper who I said,

and you guys were making fun of me, Pete Alonzo. He can scoop that ball, baby. I just don't think they're going to get Pete Alonzo this year because I think. They had a chance. He was a free agent. Well, they only wanted Schwerber because he's from Ohio.

Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, for sure. Alonzo and Cincinnati? That's 55 homers. I can't even get started on it. Petalong. Trade to the Orioles, Hunter Green. I had a couple people,

I had a couple people DM me when I said I was Cincinnati, Cincinnati hot. Mixed back, some positive, some negative. I'm in on that. I've been to Cincinnati a few times. I haven't. That's a miss for me. Cool downtown area, I think.

I bird it around a little bit, yeah. Let's get out there. Good baseball town. Good sports town? Bungles? Yeah, Bengals, it's right there. You already have your QB-9. And you don't think Burroughs hot.

That was a big awesome topic. Oh, I'm out on Burroughs. Yeah. Shoot. Maybe we don't go. New season of Love is Blind. His Love is Blind, is Love is Blind, Ohio. Whoa.

Ohio is strange. It's a big place. It's more wooded than I think it is. Oh. Happy Bladed. Happy belated birthday, Chris Rose. The King, the Ohio's sweet prince still. So true.

I've been an Instagram post, did you? No, I sent a text. He's my mentor. You called him your dad, which I don't know. I want dad. I don't know. You guys are kind of, you guys 15 years apart?

We were doing the math before the show. I don't know. Like cool camp counselor? Uncle. How is he? I we googled it before I don't want to give it away if you're good with numbers

it's it's double nickels but I you're not wrong but he's only 55 huh I don't feel my age that's a problem dude I don't feel 40 you're right he's embraced

his age and you and I haven't if we're being honest there is a picture from 2021 So that's, I guess it's five years ago now. Holy shnake. Right. That's the weird one. That's the one that's starting to get weird.

Yeah. From our infamous Hollywood party of John Boyd Media. And Chris Rose looks completely different. Bob, I'll send it to you. So there's a couple things going on there. Chris Rose between his shaving his beard or potentially adding something to his beard, he can portray some different looks. Also, Chris Rose has gotten in the gym, dude.

At All-Star game this year, Chris Rose was like roped up. Okay, so that's... I sent to you this pick. It's ridiculous. He is a little bit of a bear. You forget he's got a good frame on him. He's barrel chested. Not athletic and he'll proudly tell you that.

Look at this pick, though. Oh, God. Getting nervous. Wow. Xavier, Jack Davis, Coach Treve, Chris Rose. Power pick. He looks, yeah. I mean, clean shave.

Clean shaven, yeah. Wow. We had a night that night, huh? It was you. It was me. And I guess this will hit for a lot of the JM, the diehard JM people. Jack Doyle really won over. me and me and trev's heart that night we um there there was an i guess i can there was an after

party and it was kind of everyone looking around like it's starting to get late and weird jack doyle no hesitation in the car ready to go um and that's all it takes for me and treves so look at chris look at that sexy professor there if you're on the yeah he's he's embracing the age i kind like to clean shave and i hit a good jaw line right there big chin he's got he's versatile he's versatile He is, no doubt. Don't you have a heart out? We need to get to some other players. How have we talked about the Cubs and Ellie?

Essential teams, baby. The central teams are essential. Put that on a shirt. I think my one one of guys that I think, I don't know, I guess not disrespected. You know what? I'll, I guess I'll go deep. sea fishing a little bit. No, I won't. I won't. Because I have the one I'm most passionate about.

I don't think he's going to climb the most spots, but that's because he doesn't have the most spots to climb. I'm going to do it. If it was silver stock, I'm buying one of this guy, Gunner Henderson. So Gunner landed at 26 on the list, which, okay, I mean, that's an amazing place to be. the 26 best baseball player in the world. He is still a young pup going on his third season. Let's Gunner age check. 24. Also 24.

My God. Gunner had a quote unquote down year last year with a 787 OPS, 121 OPS plus. His defense at short graded out a little better as he is aging. Remember there was kind of like, oh, Gunner's probably going to be a third base. He's the shortstop. And the defensive metrics were there last year. Only a 5.3 war season. He had an injury right before the season started.

And you and I kind of looked at each other because we were like, oh, dude, that's like horrible timing. And he graded out with his intercostal injury. bad in April defensively, bad in April offensively. And we were like, dude, that sucks. Like you're not going to properly rehab. The season's here, and that's an injury that you can kind of not tell if it's perfect or not, they're probably just going to roll them out there. And they did, and April was easily his worst month.

And then throughout the season, at the end of the year, he did trail off. And you could point to the Orioles traded some people away if you want to do some lineup protection or stuff or, you know, the season was kind of over. I know we're professionals and all that. It's not like Gunner wasn't trying, but they lost Luriano, they lost O'Hern, that you could point to that. And for me, it's just as simple as I, there was some, there's some swing path stuff with him that they're wondering if that was injury-based, or if your swing is just a

quote-unquote click off, like we used to say when we talked about baseball players in a and this guy's done it. Like basically everything you've said about Ellie, Gunner Henderson had the nine war season. How many guys are currently Dalton on the fly? How many guys in baseball have had nine war seasons? It's Otani, Judge, Witt, and Gunner? Am I missing someone?

That like, I don't know. I just think Gunner's 24. He's going to, even if he's split, the gap between the last two seasons. That's a seven-war season. And I think he's probably arguably a top-10 guy that, I don't know. I think we just, baseball happens quick and we'll do like a little in-memorian section of guys who aren't on the list anymore that you're like, oh, shoot,

baseball does happen fast. Baseball's not happening fast for Gunner. This guy's amazing. No, I mean, I love this guy. I like him in short. He is a guy who I think would benefit from move to third base, but he's, still fine defensively. You mentioned the injury

intercost injuries. Haddam. You use it. You use your core in every movement. So like it disrupts timing. It disrupts your biomechanics. Like you're going to start, you know, moving differently to compensate where you're injured. So then things kind of get out of whack. He talked about it

with his swing mechanic saying he couldn't get on playing early. He felt like he was just chopping down the ball. So you see a decrease in home runs. And it It's just going to, it affects everything. So, you know, I think a lot of these guys who are lower on the list, like I have another guy that's low on list because of injury last year. And I just want to remind people how good he is.

I think that's exactly what's going to happen with Gunner. He'll be a guy. He runs the bases. He doesn't just steal bags, just a good base runner in general. The defense is fine at shortstop. It's not like where he gets a lot of his value. A lot of his values just from that bat and the way he runs the bases. Yeah, I'm in. I'm in. Gunner's one of my guys. He's one of my one-one's as short.

Yeah, let me, I have a, I have a couple pieces of information, and then I even have trivia for you, coach, on the fly. Gunner, I mentioned April, the worst month, offensively and defensively, negative 6. OAA, if you're an OAA person. In April alone, he finished with a minus 3.0A on the year. So if you take out April, he was a positive defender and, More importantly to me, and lame stream media over here, Gunner had a 73-game errorless streak last year. Like that. I really like that from my shortstop, who can also just mash potatoes at the plate.

So I'm all in on the Gunner, bounce back. Again, 26, not a bad spot to be in, but I think we're looking at a top 10 player in this league. And I think we just moved on quick. Let me hit you with trivia, Coach Trev. But it's brought you by HIMS, because these guys are HIMS, and so are we, and so should you, especially if you're struggling in the bedroom, not talking about the fitted sheet people, talking about ED with personalized treatments

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for safety effectiveness or quality. Prescription required. See website for details. Restrictions and important safety information. Actual price will depend on product and subscription plan. Trivia, Trev. On the fly, I said, you know, guys who are cursions. currently in baseball who had a nine-war season.

And I clipped off the top easy because we've seen Judge, we've seen Otani. And then the Witt-Gunner year kind of happened together. There are three other players currently in Major League Baseball who have had a nine-plus B-war season. And the hint I'll give you is that they're guys you'd think of. They're a little bit veteran players. And if I was the Segway King, I think you're about to tell you. talk about one of these guys.

Give me the year range? Let's see. We've got a 2018. We have a 2012. And then we have 2015. Okay. We're actually, we both have picked one of these guys.

We're nice like that. I know one of them is Bryce Harper. One of them is Bryce Harper. And that was, one of the one of his first MVP. Is that 2015? 2015. He had a huge year there. 2021 was his other MVP year, if I'm not mistaken.

Daltz not. But they didn't get to nine more. Okay. So that's one. So Harper was one of them, who you already had picked out on your list. 2012? Mike Trout. Mike Trout, who I have picked out on my list because I'm not ready to give up. And then 2018? Is it a pitcher? No. I'll give you one more hint. He's coach. He's coached.

He's coaching the Celebrity All-Star game. Mokey Betts. It's mooky bets. It's obviously Mokey Betts. Ben's Oprah's had one too, but I don't know what year that was. Adults on it now, but we might move on. Why don't you talk about Harper a little bit because you had him picked out? I just love this one for a bunch of different reasons. When I'm thinking about, like, guys I like, you know, what I say, like buying stock in this guy, selling stock in this guy.

You have one silver stock. I have a very diversified portfolio. We're different like that. We're different in how we operate. But some people like to invest in early stage companies, call them angel investors. You know, we're betting on a small company that we see potential in, and that's going to give me the biggest gains,

but it's also going to, you know, not hit all the time. So a lot of people like to pick their baseball players based on that. I would say, like, if you're one of the analytically driven guys, and I just slurred when I said that. It's 5.30 in the morning out here. You pick the young guy. So you're like, I see this bat path and this data says he's going to be great.

And I like to invest my money in baseball players, more like Warren Buffett. Tried and true. American icons. That's what I like to invest in. Bryce Harper's an American icon to me. I still believe. Like, if I look into the crystal ball, Jake,

I see a Bryce Harper another MVP season and a World Series ring. Maybe not both. I see a World Series more than anything. MVP's maybe going to be really hard to get because there's a guy named Shohay Otani. World Series though still for Bryce Harper and that means he's going to have to have a big, big year. So Bryce over the last couple of years has not fallen off offensively but from his heyday last year 844 OPS. That's a banger of a season coach. But Bryce Harper needs to be in the nines. That's who he can be.

That's who he has been. He's had a couple articles and a couple of media sessions talking about having a few different clubs in the bag. And I think a lot of haters will reference that saying like, hey, like, look, there are times where I just don't feel my best. You watch Bryce Harper, sometimes he has the high leg kick. Sometimes he has the toe tap. He's really started to kind of be more contact oriented with two strikes. All that being well and good. And as I was kind of like looking through that,

I came across this drive-line article. I'll give that guy credit because that's what I do. That's good. Travis Schachick. Nice. Yeah. I feel like I've read a lot of his article before, actually. There's a guy in this article who's got fingerprints all over some of the top

free agents this year and then Bryce Harper. So Cody Bellinger and Bryce Harper, it's a guy named Scott Boris. Oh. Talking about advocating for Harper to change his approach with two strides. He says, I went through this in 2022, 2022, 2003, off season with Cody. He's hitting 060 and 080 with two strikes. I said, Cody, this can really increase your average. Bellinger hit 141 with two strikes in 2022 and 279 in 2023.

So he went way up at the advice of Scott Boris. He said, I did this with Harper 2 with two strikes. He became contact oriented. You're a great athlete. You have tremendous handout. Use your contact skills. He goes on and on to say he's told Bryce to add the extra. club in the bag to hit with two strikes.

Now those things have gone up, but they have kind of like also zapped some of the power out of his game. So it has to be kind of, in my opinion, a little healthy balance here. You know you need to practice that skill set from time to time throughout the season. And specifically, hey, runners on scoring position. You want to be able to do that in the playoffs, which, by the way, Bryce Harvers had tremendous playoff career. But there's also times where it's like two strikes with nobody on and two out.

out on the two strike approach. Like, let's go back, let's go back to try and put the ball in the air in the pool side. So, yeah. So I think it's situationally dependent. That's all I'm asking Bryce Harper to do this year. Okay.

In two strikes, I know Scott Boras told you to be really contact-oriented, but I think it still depends on the situation. So let's go out there and bang a few more hormone. Excuse me? Cut that out. Bang a few more hormones. Mones. Bang a few more homers with two strikes.

You're cutting that out. I don't know if I can have Rob take that out. It's early here. It's a trophy for me. That's my pitch to Bryce Harper, and I just foresee him just being better. Yeah. Bryce is 33 years old.

The three years rolling into last season, he was a 146 or 145 OPS plus all three years. That, yeah, he really just slightly ticked down last year. And if he was 35, maybe there's more of a conversation. But he's not. And like, the Phillies are amazing. And also, I don't know, I have a weird thing with baseball that, like, I feel like Schwerber stole a couple homers from him.

Like, like, I know that doesn't make sense, but in a way it does, like, how many years can you see two guys chase 60 home runs? I don't know. That's a little off the deep end. I realize that. But, like, this is still Bryce Harper. And the Dave Dombrowski quote, which I feel like we're going to hear a lot about this year. And Bryce is going to talk about a lot this year. And that's part of what makes him beautiful.

He's still a quality player. He's an all-star caliber. player. He didn't have an elite season in the cages immediately with the not elite shirt, obviously. That, yeah, man, I, that stock speech before, even though you talked about my assets a little differently than your assets, it's not far off from where I'm running with Trouty in a minute. But I guess if there's anything else, at first I thought you were about to hype Boris up, and then you kind of went against your guy. I didn't.

I like situational two-strike approach because you are going to need it. In the postseason, that's a time where we need to put the ball in play. Like that also need to hit homers. I'm just saying there's a difference between bats and situations. That's hence the different clubs in the back. Sometimes, Jake, when you're feeling froggy, well, use a golf analogy. Sometimes when you're feeling froggy and you're up a few strokes, try to drive that green.

Oh, okay. But other times, hey, man, I don't know about this. I'm not feeling my best today. Let me take that freaking six iron out into the fairway and, you know, have a hundred yards in.

Great golf analogy, Trump. Yeah. Price was 32 this year. He was 12 in 2025. I'm putting him in the top 20 range for 2026. Ranking. I thought you were talking about age for a second. Yeah.

It's like we've known Harper for a while. And hey, I guess I'm blessed to be here in the year of 2026 talking about Bryce Harper and Mike Trout still. Because I remember our original, our fantasy baseball group having arguments about young Mike Trout and Bryce Harper and who is going to have the better career and all of that. And Trouty won. Trouty won the war, literally, 87 and a half career war. I'll tell you what, Trout, I'm fighting blind here. I don't have a ton of, I can point at this, I can point at that. I just, because the argument is, and Mike Trout, where was he on this list?

84th or something? 82nd. He kind of played last year, Coach. 130 games. And the story the past couple years was, okay, 20. 29 games, which that's crazy. And hey, maybe I can use that as part of my argument, only playing 29 games the year before.

82, the season before that, but he was still on a six-war pace. He played 119 games in 2022. Got six war in those games. And it's like, okay, yeah, it's Mike Trout, right? He hadn't been playing. Last year, he kind of did. And the numbers weren't there. And Joe Adele hit a bunch of taters.

Taylor Ward hit a bunch of taters. And that batting average and where it's dropped to, it's making me a little nervous. I guess this is just, like you said, with stocks. This is a stock I'm super familiar with. He's 34 that is getting to a different area. I believe in talent, and I believe in, hey, man, that contract runs for five more years,

and I can't picture Mike Trout ending last season. And by the way, he was super excited about this big weather storm that just passed through the Northeast. He was texting my guy Jim Cantori all about it. I can't picture Mike Trout doing what he did last year and being okay about it. That I don't know. I feel like Trout is going to have one more big boy season in him.

And I kind of need to believe that, spiritually. I like that. I think there's a few reasons why the value was down. Number one, he DH most of the year. And I think that's probably going to be where we're going to be seeing Mike Trout. And so the value inherently, as far as we're talking, war is going to go down. I think like the offensive profile of a hit as a hitter, you know, with the bunch, Kate a bunch last year, saw a little bit of uptick and breaking balls thrown to him.

So, I mean, that's an adjustment type thing for him. And we talked about Bryce Harper, like, you know, maybe a little bit less sellout. But, I mean, he's had the same freaking swing his entire life, dude. Like Mike Trout's one guy, you don't need more clubs in the bag, dog. You got a beautiful swing. One club is fine. Let's just, you know, here's one thing that I saw. And if you watch Mike Trout, you've seen, you've noticed as well.

I actually play with the guy that did this too. I'll give another shout out to somebody. Brook knows ball. Wow. That's put out multiple videos about this, I believe. I follow her on IG. I'm talking about Mike Trout, taking the first pitch, constantly getting into an 01 count.

That, you know, as you get a little bit older, and maybe you're not as quick as you used to be and not as, you know, prone to adjustment and guys are just getting a little bit nastier with their secondary pitches as the years go on. There's just no doubt about it. If you're constantly 0-1, you're going to strike out more. So that could be the adjustment.

I saw Joe Mauer do this. And they're like of the same ilk where like maybe I should just shut the fuck up and just let them do their thing. No, talk talk more about what Maurer and Trout should do. Here's the really good. Here's the thing. This is why it's it's really hilarious because I actually agree with Brooke. Like I'm down for Mike to start swinging the first pitch more. But it also has to be selected.

We should talk about the Joe all the time. He used to say he'd be like, come up those guys. I'm about to swing first pitch. Like it'd be an event. Like he let people. That's so fun. I love that. Let people know. So we'd be like, you could probably, there was probably a tell of us top stepping Joe Mower at bats. Because we're like, oh fuck. Like this guy has no idea. He's going

to groove one in because the scouting report says Joe Mauer takes first pitch. And Joe go, whack every single time. It's, it was so fun. So fun. So yeah, I don't know. That that's an adjustment. Again, I think the value is going to be down because he's going to be D-Hing. But I'm in, I'm in with you too, man. How could you not believe in another Mike Trout big boy season? Can we get back into the nines? Maybe. Well, and obviously has the talent. Yeah, and you got some first pitch stuff there. Maybe in second year, D.H. He'll change his routine. I think that needs to be said too. Some routine. He still got on base against Ritees last year. Like he was good against right. So he was bad against lefties last year, which it feels like,

that's something we can find in an adjustment. And the biggest numbers, you mentioned first pitch, it's also fastballs, which, okay, hey, there's a father time argument there, but there's also, all right, Mike Trout, let's go hit some high fastballs, kid. The lowest in the MLB batted 104 on elevated fastballs last year, that that, if you're still hitting other pitches, I'd like to think that Trouty's still going to have something in there. So I'm in.

Let's hit a couple high fastballs. Let's jump on a couple pitches. Like, let's end April with a one dot. And like, let's get the Trout train leaving the station, as they always say. Shut on Mike Trout, man. Mike Trout. He's Mike Trout. And full circle.

The Chris Rose episode last year with Mike Trout was amazing. It was like the first time I saw Trout not talk about the weather. Trev let's do a little speed round I guess how many more guys we're going to go through this quick my next one's quick it's Yordon Alvarez he was ranked 28th and 20 and 2026 because they know that he's the man 2025 he was ranked 7th

it was an injury plagued year for my guy Yordon and it kind of stinks he had the hand injury to start the year no bueno for him but we know what kind of player he can be. I love going to look at his baseball Sivan Page. It is unbelievable. Blood Red, as we like to say.

And just I picked Jordan. It's no brainer for me. But also I just don't want people to forget how good this guy is. We're talking about, like he's in the conversation for top three hitters in all the baseball. Yes. Like I know there's Shohay, there's Judge, there's Soto, and there's,

Yordon. Those are the three you're probably arguing about. Judge is going to be number one, in my opinion. But those other two, other three, you got to pick two. Like, he's obviously in that discussion. So don't forget how good he is. And I think, look, the Astros finished one game out from the playoffs last year without a Yordaun. Like, am I all in on the Astros this year? I don't know, man.

He hits lefties. He hits righties. He's got power. He's got on base. He just can do every single thing. He came back from that injury and was. absolutely filthy for like 19 games before he stepped on the plate wrong last year, sprained his ankle. He's going to have a full offseason to recover.

2026. Go check the numbers, but I guarantee Yordon's going to be underrated and take the over because he's that guy, Jake. Yeah, and that's, yeah, injuries are the toughest part about this. And it will, as TPP season starts to come around, like that's, you know, it's something we hammer

and you kind of hear my tone and my voice change because what can you do? Like, if Yordaun plays 162 next year, he could finish, he will finish top three in MVP votes. Like the guy, the guy is a monster, but he sneakily doesn't have that full season. It's going to happen.

And like you said, I mean, the Astros who we, I don't know, mentally we've moved on a little bit. He's had some full seasons. He's had some full seasons. I mean, he's had some full seasons. I mean, he's had some full season. career OPS, yummy. I'm just saying, like,

what's Yordaun's career high in homers? I know we're not. We opened with N. 37. So in 2022, he played 135 games. He's played 144. He's played 147. 33, 37, 35 are as highest totals.

I know he's not a pure power hitter, which that's just obnoxious to say a guy with a career, 961 OPS. Like, I guess the complimentary way for me to say this is like, I would bet on Yordaun having a 50, Homer season at some point. And like his, his high is 37 in 2022. So yeah, it's coming.

I will do, you know what, I'll double up quick because I added one guy late. And they're very similar arguments. Actually, I guess they're kind of not. One had the hype train before last season. I don't know if you remember all this. Young Freddie Freeman, but he plays center field. And we were part of the problem. Jackson Merrill and how quickly we forget, man.

Like he got injured last year. Hamstring, concussion, left ankle, bone bruise. Don't like that. And in 115 games he played in a choppy 115 games he played with those three injuries. Still had a nice year. 774 OPS, which at HECO that plays up just a little bit more. sophomore campaign that I don't know I just remember we initially watched this guy we fell in love that played out through his whole rookie season he was amazing the next year the hype train like

fully left this station um and then like the injury bug got to him he he had some uh uh some some chase issue or one of the best sluggers against righties in the nl you don't necessarily picture that when you see jackson merrill remember when we found out he He was like a shortstop. We were like, are they just going to play him at shortstop? They were still talking about that last year. He randomly won the center field job in San Diego. Who the hell is this guy?

He just has that dogg in him. And it feels like injuries tripped him up a little bit. So he, where was he on the list? He landed at 59th after being 24th the year before. So again, like where is young Jackson Merrill going to bump back to? And then one guy, underrated is always a very tricky thing that we deal with on this show. Riley Green just deserves more love. Just another young ball play.

He came in 57th on the list. Again, I just said Jackson Merrill was 59th after kind of a more difficult year for him. It's like, Riley Green has the prospect profile. last year in his age 24 season, 36 homers, 32 doubles, 111 RBI. Like, this guy was supposed to be a dude, is a dude, plays in a tough ballpark to be a dude. That, like, I don't know. I think, like, I almost called myself out when I saw Jackson Merrill and I got excited. And I was like, wait, is Jackson, like, is Riley Green just Jackson Merrill who's doing it?

Ooh. See, I have Jackson with a little bit higher ceiling, and I, Riley has more too. But I think me, he had a big power season last year. That's kind of what I think about him. Like, it's, it's the power that plays and gives him the value. Because he can, I mean, he hits the crap out of the ball. And he's got that great swing that gets the ball in the air. But he hit 36 last year. Does he have a 50 homer season in the bag? in Detroit? Like that would be where his values coming from, right? Well, and I guess Jackson has a little bit more, a few more areas to do it with. In a year where I feel like

we're going to be talking about contact a lot, we opened up with Nico Horner by accident, what the Blue Jays did last year. He did lead the ALE and strikeouts, 201 strikeouts for Riley Green last year where it's kind of what you were saying. Jackson Merrill, it just feels like as an all-around hitter

has a little more, has more potential, and I think a little more defensive potential than Riley. Who's more handsome? Ooh, interesting. Interesting. I lean Riley Green, but I still don't think he has his look dialed.

You know what I'm saying? I'll go Jackson, I think he's taller. Listed an inch taller Negligible Girls don't really care about height I don't know I guess I just got a little itchy

When I was like, dude, is Comerica a brutal place to hit? Yes Yeah, like It's freezing, it's massive And you're facing Terek's scubble Yeah I guess Riley Yeah

Those are Joe Ryan Joe Ryan Will they? Travis you had one more guy on your list And I think it does open up another Slight can of worms No this is We decided we're going to pick one guy

That we think should be on the list That is on list It's going to be fast for me That's what we're doing. Number one I think the biggest point is There's three relievers on this whole damn sheet I think we need more respect for relievers We have Mason Miller.

We have Edwin Diaz and Eraldus Chapman. I think we need more. That's my take on the MLB 100 list. Look, you guys do a fine job. I just respect the relievers a little more. I'm going yon-duran. I don't think there's anybody in the ninth thing that you want to have out there more than him.

Like I think on a night in, night-out basis. Like I know the Chapman was great. Diaz is great. And Mason Miller's can throw a thousand miles an hour. So can Duran, but it's moving down. And he's just the most disgusting A bat ever. So I want him in the game.

I trust him with my life dependent on him. Yon and Duran should be on this list. Yeah, the whole relievers conversation is pretty interesting because, you know, come playoff time, they become infinitely more valuable. You need them to get through the year too. But like, you know, I feel like every year don't the relievers now throw more innings than starters?

that it's just, it's wild and who he is talent-wise. And it almost feels like, again, a guy that's had a very impressive career, it feels like in a way there's more in there, which that's disgusting to say. 83rd and K percentage at 30.8. And he's also the 100 percentile and ground ball percentage. Do you like a guy that strikes guys out? And if they do put the ball and play, it's on the ground, you do.

I take it back. last year was gross. He's filthy. Last year was... I thought he was like, obviously in Minnesota, you know what I mean? He's not going to get as much respect.

Oh. You know a full year in Philly. Yeah. Yeah. You're not, you ain't wrong, coach. Okay, my guy who's off the list that'll be back on the list. You know what? Know who I'm going to have a

toxic relationship with this year? Oh, Devin Williams? No. No, no. Congrats to Devin on the contract. I think we're going our separate ways. Michael Harris, too, dude. I was not even close to that. I love center field. I love center field defense. He is amazing at that. I looked back at his last year, last year, and the stats are so, he was one of the worst hitters in the league until the All-Star break. then he kicked into gear for a little bit

and then he fell off again towards the end but it's just like dude if you're I don't think he's a league average hitter talent wise if he's a league average hitter he's like a top 50 guy the way he patrols the outfield that I don't know I again another just young talented guy that I feel like we've moved on from for a little bit

and I guess with the Braves you could point at him you could point at Riley like you can you can kind of go around the horn more in a little bit. The expectations this year are going to be fun. And I, like Michael Harris too kind of broke me a little bit last year that I, again, like, I'm almost like, hey, dude, I'll cheer for you, but you got to do it. And you got to do it like early next year. Hey, Lawrence Butler, same speech. Yeah. They're like best friends. Yeah. It's go out, but hot. Who would you rather again? I'm a Lawrence guy. Yeah, you are a Lawrence

Butler guy. I'll take Michael Harris too. I don't care about height. All right. Got a little H at the end. So let's do our site. Excuse me. Seat Geek signing season. Free Agent Forecast, brought to you by Seek. We keep tabs on players this move moving this off season. Who's next? So how about this? Two top 100 guys on the list, not on teams. Framber Eugenio. What are your spidey sense it's telling you? Hey, Eugenio is so interesting because I have no idea what kind of contract he wants. I think teams are like, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, honey, we'll pay you like 20 for one year.

I feel like that's where teams are at and give you some opt-outs. Like, right? Yeah, I mean, I even wonder if a sicko team just comes in with like a one for 30, no such thing is a bad year. Maybe 20's too low. But yeah, that's kind of where my head's at. Like, we don't want a long-term deal here. we understand the value that you bring to a club. Let's do the one year.

And does he get two years with an opt-out? Yeah, you start juggling the money in the A.A.V. Yeah, if he wants, I think he can get whatever contract he wants probably one to three years, but the money probably goes down kind of significantly. A good team for him? I started the off-season with Texas. I don't see that now. Pirates would be cool, but I don't believe in it. Red Sox?

Yeah, there's talk about that. Back to the snakes, doll. You got room for them over there? Oh, you do. What team? Okay, Dolan, you're out. He just showed me the Rockies page. In Corysfield?

No, we're not. I can't. Framber? I feel like people keep pointing to the Orioles, but I don't know. I almost want him to go back to Houston I don't think that's happening but why not they brought Carlos back

Why not? Yeah I don't think so I don't really have a good team for him That's an impact piece Like we kind of want to It truly is Red Sox always makes sense to me too But they kind of have pitching

Yeah they don't really need that Toronto they have pitching I don't know those are two I think five teams are spending money this offseason. So it's like there's only, you know. Eh, uh, Henny is a coin flip. Dalton's turned his computer to me one more time for Framber.

Let's see. The Mets? I thought they already did that. It would be, hey, if Uncle Steve can. Uncle Steve can. That would turn into full one the off season. Let me dig for one more team for it. Oh, how about the Padres give him one of their dumb deals where it's like,

hey, you get two and a half mill this year, but you get $40 million next year. and we'll find a place to trade you. I like that. I like that. All right. That was signing season brought to you by Seekek. Make sure you use code talk in 2026. And now a special treat.

Rob Chiracco has prepared us some goodbye music for the MLB players who were on the top 100 list last year who are no longer on the top 100 list. And I think Trevor and I will take turns remembering them and hoping to see them this year. Okay. Corbyn Burns. Garrett Cole. Austin Riley.

Carlos Correa. Wow. 42 in 2025? Yeah. Marcel Ozuna, the bear. Don't forget Christian Walker. Your guy who sparked this Dodgers' race. Revolution.

Tay Oscar Hernandez. I know. Interesting stats from last year. Anthony Sontan there. He's still there. Marcus Simeon fights Corey Seeger? Oh. Marcus Simeon.

You skipped Class A and Rushman, but that's okay. One should be skipped and won't come back. I hope badly does. Shora Imanaga. Yeah. Oh, perfect timing. Michael Harris, too. Come on.

Michael King. He should probably still be on the list. Wow. Tyler Glassnow. What are we doing? I do love Tyler Glass. Seth Lugo. Wow.

Louisiana hot. George Kirby. That galen to the Padres. Ooh. Dahl hated that. Devin Williams, my guy. Sal Perez, just for vibes. alone should be on. That's true. He should start every list. Um, J.T. Realmudo.

Alta proved this year. Gasp. Mark Vientos. Stop wearing cool clothes. Get back to being the ball player that we know you can be. Get in Scherzer's closet. Um, Royce Lewis, Trev. Come on. A great talk with him at Twins Fest guys. We're in. Luis arrives. Ken Rosenthal said no market for him right now. That's nuts. It's nuts. Figure it out. Jerks and Profar. Interesting. Issock. Perettus. Isn't he going somewhere too now?

They're talking about him to the Red Sox. Trade rumors. Can kind of play everywhere and pull the ball. They traded for Wilson Contreras. Is he a top 100 player, probably? Yeah. Bryce Miller, starting pitch for the Mariners. Yeah. Justin Steele.

with the Chicago Cubs. He'll be back. He'll be fine. Elbutt, my guy, Lawrence Butler. Yeah. Hit some homers, rob some homers. I've seen you do it. Let's go, guy. Brandon Nimmo in Texas now.

No brainer. Ian Hap is a top 100 player. It's insane. Just because he's a true gentleman. Dansby. Playing looks, everything. Mason Winn also has a reason why he should be on this list.

Not going to say it. Oh. Great player. Nolan Aeronado. I might be off. Oh, I'm in on him. Oh, okay. Let's see that.

I read an article. That's huge. He sounds great. And I believe in Nolan Aeronado. Paul Goldschmidt. I always respect for you, Paul. Crazy. And number 100 from last year's list.

And I'm, I'd bet on him being on next year's list. Bye, Lala Roki. Roki Sasaki. We will see all you guys. soon. Those players, hopefully, on the top 100 list. You will see us on talking baseball, either Monday or I don't know, a big trade over the weekend? Why not? I might never come back, coach. Oh, that's right. Are you going to be... Not the people at Twinsfest that are like, hey, man, tell Jake he sucks.

Grace. It unbily. It unites this country, which that's what we need. Will you be posting content from the trip? What can the people expect? I'm gonna feel it out. We'll see. Okay. Yeah. Depends how I look with my shirt off. In there.

Yeah. In there. Sheesh.