Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - The Dodgers Feel INEVITABLE! | 1112

Episode Date: April 13, 2026

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball. Couple L-5s in the big city, so maybe we won't be coastal elitist today. Although L.A. and San Diego, twins are hot. Let's talk ball. Let's talk ball. It's always been pirates and twins. McGinsky.

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That is Trevor Plouf. Rob Choracos producing. Dalton Feeley getting all the info together for us. As we start sliding into the season, April 13th, okay? Okay. I still don't think you get your takes fully developed yet. I was laughing this morning. I feel like there's 20.

teams in the league right now on April 13th that have hated their team and love their team. Like if you did teams that have had a losing streak of three games and teams that have had a winning streak of three games, it's a giant amount of the league. Coach Trev, how are you? I'm great. Pop spent the weekend in the city with you. So there was a little F and Fing there. You know, we always say, we're going to get out into, you know, Soho or, Manhattan, we're going to go out and have a nice dinner, and we never do. It's kind of disappointing.

Every single time I get home, I'm disappointed. But then when you're there, we're just so old now. We're grinding. We're grinding and we're tired. And I'm disappointed in myself. We had a great group outing. And you and I actually, we called it like right at the right point. I think we did great with special night, kind of.

You me, Moylan, Chad Hall, shout out. And the rest of the Johnboy Media crew, we had one of our warehouse weekends. Tune in for that, some big Johnboy Media news coming out of that that we'll let, we'll let our guy handle. Yeah, I talked to him the other day. I don't know how he wants to do that. We'll see. But stay tuned, John Boy Media people. Crazy.

It's not funny. Not super funny. And then, yeah, that probably would have been Saturday night. Yeah, we need a summer night. That's where we thrive. we need it's like those friends that make plans two months in advance we kind of got it we kind of got we got to do we got to like lock in the dinner reservation or trev maybe the other thing i know you and me and bob been dancing around it it feels like this year's the minnesota year and the

first place minnesota twins the amount of juice you got i want to see some of those lakes haven't been to minnesota just connected through the airport if you come in the series in September, which is when the Yankees come to Ryan. I am calling the games. We will go to the lakes. I will see if Joe will let us stay at his lakehouse. I mean, whoa. Yeah.

Whoa. All right. Well, that was us. That was us just yucking. Let's get into the ball, man. Because, yeah, we got a, we're going to give you the standings. Some really fun stuff in the NL, but because it is Monday, that means we start off in the American League.

Speaking of teams that have loved their team and hated their team this season, the Seattle Mariners. After game one, they had the worst offense in basically every category in baseball. That being said, they have won their last three games over the Houston Astros with a chance for the four-game mopping. Mopping or magging on Monday? Astros pitching, my goodness. Tatsuya Amai only records one. out the day Christian Javier goes on the IL. Hey, Mariners' offense kicked into gear.

Randy or Rosarana, if you want to see someone Pimp a Homer. He did that. Cal Raleigh goes yard. A J.P. Crawford walkoff? And then Walter, Logan Gilbert, dominant on the bump. Seattle gets back to their winning ways. Teams that have loved and hated themselves. The Story Ellie effect.

The New York Yankees and the Tampa Bay raise. Ray's sweep the Yanks. Hello. Five runs was the magic number for all three Ray's victories. Chandler Simpson is going bonkers. He's playing a different sport out there. And the race, they're bunting, they're running. Offensively, they feel like a fun-raised team.

The defense still having moments of peril, which kind of gave the Yankees a chance in a couple of these games. But it was not enough. Ray's first three-game sweep of the Yanks since 2021. Hello. Drew Rasmussen, nasty. Braves take two out of three from the Guardians, because that's all the Braves have done this year.

The final team that has not lost a series this season, it all happened on NBC on Sunday night baseball, Bob Costas. It also was because Matt Olson hit one on the roof, a 3-0 pitch. That's what you do with those if you get them. Brave scored double digits in the bread games. That's where they won. Otherwise, it was Parker Messick, shutting them down.

Braves playing good ball. The twins, speaking a good ball, after dropping the first game, Brandon hits one to Valenzuela, his first career home run. After that, it's twins, twins, and twins, a seven-run third inning. Brooks Lee, Ryan Jeffers, you know Joe Ryan dominated. And so did the twins on that final game. Tristan 50 Shades of Gris. Ray. It's just dominating people.

Twins, you're going to hear Trev talk a lot about them. I'm sorry. Royals and White Sox split four, so we may not talk a lot about that one, especially because the first three games were all two nothing. White Sox on the first one. Royals, the next two. Boobich and Waka. Michael Waka is doing it again. But the White Sox, they salvage the set on the final day, a little borderline robbery late.

So a weird Bobby Wittstag coming. ready for that. They split four. The Tigers sweep the fish. Hey now, Cater Montero, nasty changeup. Nasty change them. Same with that scoobble guy in the final game. And then throughout Riley Green with the three-run homer. They need him to get going. Kenley Jansen, historic. And how about Kevin McGonagall's first ding-dong? You know we love that. The Orioles. They take two out of three from the San Francisco Giants. And that's obvious. I don't know. It wasn't obvious. game one when Landon Rup, shut him down for six innings, and Slick Willie was going Apo.

But Jeremiah Jackson, Pete Alonzo with signs of life in that final game, and Kate Povich, spot start on his birthday, gets it done. Sammy Basio driving and runs. Orioles winning baseball. And our final AL series is obviously in St. Louis, the Red Sox kid. After dropping the first game, Connolly Early, Dustin May Revenge game. and I think another birthday boy, Thomas Sejacy, with the RBI. After that, it's all Red Sox.

Ranger Suarez, six scoreless innings after a shaky first. Jordan Walker continues to dominate, but so did Wilson Contreras against his former club. Four for five on the final day. Same with Trevor's story as the socks. Take two out of three from St. Louis. And that's what happened in the American League. God. I feel like Rob Dibble, just a nasty boy.

I get that vibe from you sometimes. I could have fit in in that Reds bullpen. You wearing that shirt? I think the shirt actually plays in that bullpen. I go back and forth on it. It's fine. I have the standings. Do you want them?

Every time. The AL. And you know we're starting in the Central because that's where the two teams with the best record live. Crazy. The Cleveland Guardians and the Minnesota Twins, nine and seven.

Somehow that's the best record in the year. American League. Fine. I'll take it for what it's worth. Go twins. The Tigers 7 and 9, the Royal 7 and 9 and the White Sox 6 and 10. We'll go out east where there's a 3-teen tie atop the division, all 8 and 7. That's Baltimore, Yankees and Tampa, the Red Sox and Toronto, 69. That's 6 and 9 for people. I don't, I can't, I'm too old to be making jokes like that. What are we doing, coach? I can figure it out. West. The A's are back. Yeah. With the big, with a big New York series.

Crazy. Both ways there, the Bronx and in flushing. Is that how you say it again? I don't know, man. Is there an S or not? The A's 8 and 7, Texas 8 and 7, the Angels 8 and 8, Seattle, 7 and and Houston, 6 and 10, just like we all drew it up, Coach. And those are the standings in the A.L. Can you believe the Mariners and Houston are as bad as they are? The Mariners are fine. They'll be okay. Houston is, that was like my team. Like, they're going to be back. They're going to do it.

And then the thing that everyone said to me, starting pitching depth, it's already reared its ugly head, Jake. Yeah, Houston Astros currently 30th in ERA, starting pitching-wise, 30th in ERA release pitching-wise. Bad recipe. Bad recipe. Only up from here. Norton's back. Only up from here. Hey, Colorado and a little homestand coming in.

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slash John Boy to start your crypto journey. Yeah, the AL hasn't even begun yet. You mentioned, as you mentioned in the standings, every team is between 9 and 7 and 7 and 9. You got two outliers right now, the White Sox and the Astros. Yeah, funny April baseball at this point, but we have some interesting things to chew on and we'll see how they develop during the year.

I can't believe that. I can't get that royal stat out of my head. Hey, we'd mention Astros in Seattle, so let's roll into it. And again, the story is oddly simple, except in game two. The Mariners trailed seven to two in the fifth inning before putting up a five spot to tie it, rally. J.P. Crawford mentioned he gets to walk off in that game.

And yeah, if we had recorded right before game one, we would have told you that the Mariners had the worst offense in baseball. They show some signs of life here. they have a nice comeback win. Astros now with a seven-game losing streak. So again, a week ago, we like the Houston Astros, and that offense could bang, and now the whole story has changed.

Yeah, I mean, they've lost, I think, three starting pitchers on this road trip, Bolton's out, Tatsuia Maya, exits with an injury. Jeremy Payne also went out with an injury. Like, they are just, they're dropping like flies right now. It's really hard to sustain that, especially when you don't necessarily have the depth coming out of the,

you know off season so this is a tough one for um the ashes i do rob i'm putting you on the spot here i did want to talk about the pickoff play yeah that got that got sent in the group chat um because we've we've been talking and i know this the series is hey mariners we're knocking the ball around the park again very happy for you guys you this is who you should be in my opinion i have you in the World Series. Love the pickup play because listen, we've been talking about how do you combat kind of what's happening now with the three disengagement

the pitch clock. People have been really taking advantage of that. We've seen stolen bases go up, which is kind of the reason for it. But teams are getting more and more brazen with kind of like the hop play and doing all this. So this is just a simple like it's not even a timing play necessarily.

It's the catcher reading what Naylor is doing. You see him kind of fake back to get the guy to shuffle back. which is kind of like, all right, the pop is new. Like the hops, that's new. Yeah. But you put yourself in a vulnerable situation. I always tell my kids this.

As soon as your feet get close together, you're in a vulnerable position right there because you can't really get back going towards first base quickly enough. So it's exactly what they did. And all the catcher here is looking at is nail or fake into first base, getting the guy to go back. And as soon as that guy hops back off to get his primary lead again, catcher drops the glove. Logan Gilberts never looking at the runner

so the runner's like, well, he's not even paying attention to me. I'm fine. All of a sudden he picks over. Things like this are going to start happening more and more. Timing plays. Just as teams try to fight back a little bit. I don't know if you saw this.

The stolen base thing is getting like the teaching methods are getting so crazy and good in my opinion. The Orioles brought a TV monitor out the other day. Yeah, I did see that. To the field. So you could actually get the real read of the pitcher throwing. And I'm like, man, like, that's actually, I mean, I'm down with that.

I don't mind that at all. But that you're going to start seeing defenses start resorting to some of what I'll call more like college plays. Oh. Because we're getting more and more college stuff happening. Yeah, I mean, I just, not that there's an answer to every solution. that's a little just not how I talk as a human. But I like to see teams trying something that they were like,

hey, so much of base running is momentum. I know that probably sounds obvious, but that's the whole point of getting a secondary lead. Like, if you get your body weight going that way, it makes it easy to go. Like, I get really frustrated when runners just plant because then you're stuck. Like, if you're rounding third and you're not sure where the ball's at,

like, if you stop, you're stopped. If you keep your feet kind of going forward and then it goes off the infielder's glove, you can score easily. Like if you keep that momentum going, that that's kind of what they did on this pickoff play, that I love it. Like, watch every team is going to try that this weekend. And if you're the Astros, like, the Mariners formula here, pretty simple. Keep throwing the ball.

Gilbert looked amazing. The offense kicked into gear. Julio saw all your guys tweets about their bat speed being slow. And he's like, hey, guys, I'm from the Dominican Republic. it's fucking cold. Maybe it's a little bit of that. There's no correlation. You know told me that.

I'll show you correlation. If you're the Astros and you got a seven-game losing streak, I think A, yeah, that feels horrible in the pitching stats. What do you do with that? Also, just when baseball feels bad is when you read something along the stat line, I just had it. The Mariners game two that they won, no MLB team has faced.

a five plus run deficit, got out hit by 10 hits in the same game, and still won since the Indians against the Yankees in 1932. That's not what you want, because some things you can't control. J.P. Crawford, hey, Cole Emerson, enjoy AAA, pal. I got things with the big boys squad. I'm sure he is enjoying AAA. He's doing just five. Yeah, he's done. Okay. I'd enjoy AAA. I'd like to put those pants on.

Astros, getting dark, injuries, pitching in Seattle. Starting to remember what could baseball. Hold on a second. What? This said, Josh Nielder said he had no idea. Logan Gilbert was throwing over. He was just trying to keep Altuve guessing? I don't know.

That could be a little gamesmanship. It's got to be gamesmanship. They literally had to play on unless, unless, and the only way that's true is if they're like, hey, If you're looking at me and I'm, and I'm, you know, throw the glove down, just pick no matter what. But typically that's, that's put on. That's something like the catcher, like, pick this jersey, nail or saw it.

He's all right, let's run the play. And it's tough, Altuve stole before that and got to third base, but there was umpire's interference. So yeah, just. Did your face out of the way? Um, I hate that. That's my least favorite, one of my least favorite things in the sport. Like that can't happen.

Part of our, when we take over the Rockies. Yeah. Or the potential Utah Salt Lake City team, we're going to be the best of holding runners. Like, no doubt in my mind. Really? Oh my gosh. Okay.

Yes. I love that for us. I might bring in a lefty just to pick somebody off. Oh, I like that. Yeah. And the inning, you're done, son. Go hit the showers. I really like that.

All right. Let's do a double rip of the Band-Aid. I will do my Yankees. I'll do my Yankees versus the race. Yankees had a lead in the first two games. I mean, 2-0-0. Luis Heel returns for the Yankees. So they go up to nothing.

Luis Heel's first game back. Hasn't looked like his rookie form. Gives up a two-run homer in the first. We are tied again. Yankees offense has been not good. The second half of the lineup is extremely thin right now. It's been a lot of Ben Rice. and that's about it.

They had a moment in that second game. Cabiero comes up against his former team, gets a two-run double to flip the scoreboard, take the lead. Yankees cough it right back up. And then they have a quote-unquote, what people would know as a Yankees inning, lackluster defense and mental mistakes,

to lose game too. Jazz puts a little gasoline on it after the game for some extra fun. And they get swept. Credit to the race. Raise on offense. They have real threats in Common Arrow, a Yandhi, and who's my guy? Jada. And then everyone can run, everyone can bunt.

There's a lot of, like Ray's offense feels like a threat. Their defense still super suspect in moments, which I think that is going to be this team's Achilles heel this year. But they tormented the Yankees in the Trap. It felt like old times a little bit. That's like rinse and repeat, man. Go down to the Trob, get your butt beat. I think it's great that we are seeing that around baseball a little bit.

We're seeing more buntz. We're seeing, you know, obviously teams taking advantage of speed. And it's usually the teams that, you know, we talked about in the opposite. And like aren't going after all the free agents. Like we're trying to manufacture runs in different ways, Ray's being one of these teams. And just around the league, it's like the use of speed, taking the extra base, and like making the defenses play ball is it's kind of working.

it's kind of working people. Especially if you're a guy like that. I mean, that's ridiculous. He's, I'm talking about Chandler Simpson later because that, that MF right there ain't real. Maybe that's a new segment I'm going to start doing.

He ain't real? That plain lady, because the way Chandler Simpson runs, I just don't know. Yankees, L5, raised to over 500. So let's, let's see each of these teams next chapters.

Why would you throw home? bro no one was covering first oh that's why yeah yeah i don't know i don't know what am i like justified now i think i said it two years ago nobody knows how to play the bun and nobody knows how to play the bun that's crazy yanke's defense has been a running joke for a while now um do you want to talk jazz i'm sure you're talking about it at baseball today i talked about and talking yanks quick, quick here on this show I'll talk about it because I am going to, I know Chris has already sent that question over. I think he knows the rules.

Like you don't play baseball that long and not know the rules. Okay. Like, do I think that the post game press conference was bad? Yeah. Like I don't like fixing the earrings. I said that to you guys at the wear us. I'm like, can you just like, if you're still getting dressed to say, hey, let me get dressed real quick. Then I answer your questions.

They're fine. but like this is really condescending to me like it's like hey I'm doing something else and I'll just speak to you guys real quick like just just stand on business real quick you know you're going to get asked about that play like and then to give that answer is really bad but I do think he knows the rules and I think he just in a a moment of just bad judgment just started talking without really thinking about what he was saying yeah I think he thought it was funny yeah Jim Jim did a good exercise on talking yanks where he Like Jazz is like, yeah, I was trying to field the ball, tag the runner and throw to first. And it's like, if you stop the quote there, we're home free. Yeah. But then he keeps rolling. And yeah, it's a lot of fans' nightmare quote of like,

wait, my player didn't know the rules in the moment. Who was next to him? Was that Trent Grisham? Trent Grisham chimes in and it was like, I'm an outfielder. Yeah, dude, that wouldn't. Jazz continues to be. That's why they tell you don't get tagged out by the second basement.

I really would have liked to see that play develop. you would have liked on talking Yags. Me and Jimmy had a nice little brothers. Jimmy had that play at a 5% chance. If he fields it cleanly, I had it at a 50% chance. Like, if he could tag Yondi or make Yandhi hop out of the way, I don't know. We don't get to know because he didn't feel it. Go, Ray's go. All right, Trev, I did my Yanks.

Why don't you take your Twinkies? It's interesting. Like the twins, 9 and 7, great, kind of roared back after a bad start. It's been, hasn't been like one consistent. persistent person that's really been doing it, like just big hits here and there from certain guys. Tristan Gray's had seven runs driven in on two swings at a Grand Slam, three run home or here. Some nice starting pitching. We've talked about like Todge Bradley and the twins kind of like giving the business to the raise in some of these trades.

He pitched around some traffic, but, you know, pitched well enough to get that victory. Joe Ryan, bad for our bad second start against the Royals, but he was really good in this year. So there's been some good starting pitching. We've figured out some bullpen stuff that seems to me like isn't going to last a full season because there's just been so many guys in different situations that I think we really, maybe that's just how it's going to have to go. I don't know. I don't really prefer that method, but I don't think it's like been inspiring baseball,

but they've gotten victories. And they've, you know, they've cashed in when they've had runners in scoring position, which has been a problem. They've left some lefties in to hit lefties. Like Trevor Larnock has some homers against a leftie. Like that's something that Justin Moreno has been asking for forever. So again, just kind of like sporadic big hits,

people coming up clutch, which is, it's nice. I don't think it's necessarily sustainable. Josh Bell has been great. So like a nice force in the middle of the lineup there. They got to keep that. Jeffers has been doing his thing.

Yeah, I don't know, man. I'm still like kind of waiting for the, was it, the shoe to drop? The other shoot a drop, yeah. The other shoe to drop. But I've been pleasantly surprised by, you know, I mean, I guess just the record in general and like winning series.

Yeah, it's been by some of the stats of top five offense so far, which nobody had that going forward. And hey, you know, you talked about when we get, when we get our franchise to run. I'll tell you what, if your starters, Corbyn Lauer and Scherzer, by the way, those three weren't the big part of the rotation

coming into the start of spring training. 11.2 innings to the tune of a 1466 ERA. That's not the recipe. Which, hey, credit to the twins there. The Blue Jays have the injury bug pretty bad. Springer's been banged up. Them and there was one other team that stood out to me that the injuries were like kind of shocking.

Maybe it was Houston or maybe it's another team. But, yeah, you need guys to step up in Toronto. And guys have been stepping up for the Twins. Look at that. It's analysis. That's it. Nasty. Royals, White Sox, like I said, Trev, I think this one's kind of high and tight for me.

The two games, the Royals won. Boobich, career high, 11Ks over seven scoreless. They shut them out that game. Owaka, eight scoreless, seven Ks. White Sox scoreless Street gets to 20 innings. They win those two games around it. the White Sox win and survive to split four. There's a very jarring Bobby Witt stat.

I don't know if you want to bring that one to the people, but that's what stood out to me. Yeah, I mean, I have the, I screenshot this. I couldn't believe it. I don't know where I was. It was 1033 a.m. or P. Yeah, that's P.m.

So that was last night. The Royals have played 16 games. This is from Chance Lebo, LIBO. Royals have played 16 games. Bob Whit Jr. has reached base. 28 times he leads the league in stolen bases. That sounds nice. It's a great start, right? That's a good start.

Bobby Wood Jr. has touched home once all season. He scored one run. That's crazy. That's an insane stat. So runners in scoring position has not been the Royal Strong suit. There are some arguments. They are due because they've been hitting the ball hard. They lead the majors in average exit Velo. And they rank seventh with the four 43% hard hit rate, but it hasn't been translating into hits. And Vinny said, hey, man, like, I'd rather hit the ball 70 miles an hour and get a hit. Yeah.

Because that's what the people want. But it is an indicator that, like, things will turn around. I mean, that's one of the leading, if you're pointing to a statistic that's like, hey, our offense should get going, it is how hard you hit the ball, especially on average. So I, there's better days coming for the Royals ahead, especially with their offense. I think you're right. And we probably talk about this slightly differently if they win the one-run game instead of it going the other other way in the final day. But it was against the White Sox who it is early, but they do have the worst record in the AL.

Yeah. Go Michael Waka. Go Michael Waka. Are you talking him later? Underrated. I don't think so. I guess I, you know, Dalt was texting us last night about some guys to highlight Jose Soriano, who will get to, has been one of the breakout players of this season. And like the guy that's been going toe to toe with him is Michael Waka,

who I think everyone just has an image of him with like a different St. Louis Cardinals' franchise. And now he's just been a nasty boy for the Royals for a few years now. Crazy. He went eight innings, lowered his ERA to 0.43. This is, I love this. Started the outing with 17 straight strikes. Let's call. Sign me up.

Get in the box. Get in there, swing the bat. He's recorded. The Quality Start in all seven outings against the White Sox and's joining the Royals in 2024. Bob, I might need some Trevor Plufer's Michael Waka stats. Oh, I got a knock against him in St. Louis. Okay.

I think. It feels like there is probably other at bats. So let's look into that. The Motor City kitties, the Detroit Tigers, who have been struggling offensively, they sweep the fish who I, you know, was given the fish, all sorts of applause, how they're really tough out in just a pesky team.

Your guy Cater Montero shuts them down for six. And like I said on the way through Riley Green, Scoobel, the guys you need to go, Carrie Carpenter, McGonagall's first career, Yacker. The Tigers, who that fan base was pretty down on their team, now they're back up on them. Theme of the week. Still not enough to overtake the twins in the Central.

No big deal. There it is. It's a bomb off Sandy, too. That's a good one. That's a good first one right there. You got to love that. Yeah, everyone was nasty. Scoob's was nasty.

Cater was nasty. Mize and Drew Anderson nasty. And it's, we can't even say, hey, man, they just beat the Marlins. The Marlins have been playing pretty good baseball. Like,

their offense has been a strong suit for them. And the Tigers just put it to them in this series, man. Scoobble with a no-hitter into the sixth. Yeah, and you mentioned, it's kind of like all up and, down that tiger lineup they got the job done. So a really nice series for the kitties. And Jimmy Norp, he needed that. Only two. They got mop by my twins. I got mop by your twins. Geez. Only two humans have ever saved Morgan. Is this the cater changeup? Yeah. What do you do with it?

Those jersey, on my screen right now, they look a little too dark orange. Treb, sadly, you and I, we can't talk. Yeah, all the color. We can't. We can't. Can't talk. After last episode of the talk of baseball community is about a thousand percent. I'm colorblind. No, they said that I was right. But the problem is I put my sweatshirts color, which I thought was tan. You said it was green. I put my sweatshirts color into AI. Yeah. And it said it was gray. Jeez. Yeah, I will say the warehouse cameras that we used. I don't think they gave, I can see why everyone is much more towards that those hoodies are brown. Everyone in person said they're green, but I also might be colorblind, so I don't know.

But yeah, a little talking baseball controversy as there always is. Only two humans have more MLB saves than Kenley Jansen. That's crazy. Hoffman and Mo? Hoffman and Moe. Get the jacket ready. Third all time, dude. He's Kenley Jansen.

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the Willie Adomas Homer, the announcer kind of called it. He was like, boss throws him a cutter here. Don't be surprised if Willie just goes with it to write. That's exactly what he did. Gunner leads baseball and home runs with six. So that is of note early on this season. And then, yeah, things around Pete were getting a little rowdy because he's not off to a hot start.

He gets a big 2 RBI double in the fifth to open that game up and hopefully sparks him. But hey, coming into the season, the Orioles were definitely a team that it was like, hey, don't limp out of the gate. They're 8 and 7 tied atop the ferocious ALE East right now. Yeah, and they've been dealing with a ton of injuries,

11 players on the IL. Mount Castle left the game two with foot pain. Sure. Interesting. Did you see Bessaios Homer? I did. That was an absolute rocket to left center. If he can,

if he becomes what people think he's going to become, that guy's going to be hitting absolute moon shots for a long time. He's got a nice swing. They're the other team. Sorry, Trev. They're the other team that Sneaky has a ton of injuries. I forget what the stat was, but they had 11 players, including Adley Rushman, are on the IL, Mountcastle and Tyler O'Neill have been out with illness.

So they've had the bug early that it would be easy to point the finger again. And again, they don't have to right now. And yeah, I'm with Bessio, maybe this is lazy, but there's some baby Devere stuff there. like that guy's just got a smooth lefty hitter swing. A little bit of Sal Perez, too. Whoa. No? Big bodies.

He's a big boy. He's a big body. I will say on the, on the how does a young man run test, an old Bessayo is going to have to hit the ball a lot. And I think he can. I think he can. Oh, also I have a little stolen valor. I know Giants fans are one of the most disappointed fan bases right now.

I had Bobby dig up one Giants clip. because we talked about it last episode in the brown and green hoodies. Daniel Susak, the young catcher who got called up and was hitting. Still hitting, by the way. Trev, he also, you know, I asked Giants fans, I was like, where's everyone at on the Patrick Bailey meter? And they were like, you know, we obviously love Patrick Bailey, but we need more hitting.

And Susack stole his signature move, kind of, throughout his first base runner from his knees. So I don't know. That's a laser coach. Nice toss. On the knees? And I can use his 636 batting average over his first three games, you know? I don't know if cost going out and getting that ball.

Don't reach, man. Don't reach. Let it come to you. Let it come to you. Apply the tag. Taylor Ward. Yeah. Threatening my 40 double season.

Oh, shoot. He's got 10 already in 13 days. Track it. Get the tracker going. Rob, tell him. We might need a graphic. Taylor Ward's pursuit of Trevor Ploose. 40 doubles a lot, Pop, right?

Give me some credit. You're going to talk about the reason the Guardians won game two in a little bit. So I think we should highlight the Atlanta Braves, who the offense is humming with not a lot of the main guys humming so far. Like, Acuna didn't get out of the gate so hot this season. Matt Acuna Harris and Austin Riley Before game one, excuse me All had OPSs under six

So again, we've been highlighting Dom Smith We've been highlighting a few other guys Contributing to this offense Ronald had a couple good swings in that final game The Braves, another team we would have circled Say like get out of the gate hot And they have kind of without their main guys They've been pitching

Dude, their pitching has been incredible I was just looking up some of the stats on them. I mean, everything is going right for this Braves team. Before the season started, we had some injuries. We're like, oh, my God, it's happening again to the Braves. They don't care. They don't care. But we got the guys.

Third in OPS, third in runs. Great. Second and ERA for your starting pitchers, fifth and whip. Your relief pitchers first in ERA, first and whip. That, my friends, is how you get out to a 10 and 6 star. and what the second best record in all of baseball. They've done it, man. Sale, pitched around some traffic in this game.

I think he'd give him giving eight hits in this series or in this start in this series, but kind of like got the job done when runners got in the scoring position. Bryce Elder's been amazing. Grant Holmes has been amazing. Ronald Lopez has been amazing. Martine Perez has, you know, it's been around forever.

He's 35 years old. They actually DFAed him. because they don't need a fist starter. They have a bunch of off days coming up. But he held court at the back end of that rotation too. So they're kind of like they're just getting it from everywhere. And I read the stats. The bullpen's been amazing.

Dubon had a big day at the office. That helps. Matt Olson. And Drake Baldwin leading baseball on RBI, 17 on April 13th. That's pretty good. Yeah. Oh, and Braves Devil Magic,

which we've gone away from Chris Sales, fastest fastball since 2019. It's 2026. That's still just, oh man. I know. Still doing it. He's got one of those arms, coach. Doing the same party tricks.

Speaking of party tricks, Red Sox, trying to get back to series wins in winning ways. They do that in St. Louis. Again, I mentioned they dropped that first game. Riley O'Brien closing it out, Electric Factory in St. Louis. After that, a lot of Wilson Contreras, drove in three in game two, four hits in the final game.

Palante got knocked around the yard. Sox kid. Wilson, seven for nine in the series, six runs driven in. Trevor Story had a big game. Yeah, I mean, the Sox needed this one big time. And Jordan Walker, if you're a Cardinals fan, is kind of just like breaking out big time, right in front of our eyes. Also, is he leading baseball in home run?

I think so. Yeah, the Jordan Walker breakout may be real right now. Cardinals not doing a ton, 12th and runs, and the defense is grayed now really well. I guess Cardinals fans, let me know, does the defense feel like that in the Mighty, Mighty NL Central right now? Sox, who do we get? Oh, Sox Twins.

Fox Twins, yeah. Okay. Okay. Well, let's find out. I think they're going to get Ober and, Abel? Ober Abel, Woods, Richardson, crochet, Gray, Connolly,

early. Buckle up. All right, boys. I'm watching. Get the sticks ready. I'm looking and I'm a liking. Go Sox go. Hey, should we do a little National League baseball? It wouldn't be the National League without the A's.

The A's finished off their New York trip. And boy, they were in the New York roof. sweep the New York Mets had a 26-inning scoreless streak against the Yanks and the Mets after game one, a 4-0-0 win. Jeff McNeil returned to City Field. Long applause. We love it. He's a tough, gritty player.

Sangha, bad outing, Trev. The people have you on this one. And then a 1-0 finale. Kurtz, the only run in the game. Savali, 5.2 shut. He's gotten off to a nice start to the season. The boo-birds flying and flushing. And maybe it's A's baseball, babe.

Speaking of, the Washington Nationals swept the Milwaukee Brewers. Yeah, I'll wear this one. Tough start for me and coach. Not a tough start for Foster Griffin. No hitter into the six. James Wood is all over the field. And so are buntes. Three bunts in one inning to secure game one.

one in this one. A little natitude to get the sweep in Milwaukee. Okay. The Pittsburgh Pirates won two out of three against the bottom dwelling Cubs. That's your NL Central. Pitchers duel in game one. McGinsky

versus I'm gonna'emaga. Don't think I'm saying his name right. And it was just a classic. Imanaga had the no-hitter going. They get one. Here comes the bullpen. Brian Reynolds for two. Pirates win on. Bad defense. Defense and extras in that second game.

Throws it away. A tough teal bar series. O'Neill Cruz is raking. Cubbies. A race of four-run deficit. Alex Bregman with a big hit there. O for 30, skid. Sheesh, Michael Bush.

Carson Kelly gets the walk-off. Cubs salvage. San Diego. It's a walk-off. That turned into Jerry Seinfeld for a second. A bogey bomb. Holy sheet. Wow.

Both had it. it. That set San Diego up for the four-game mopping of the Colorado Rockies. Glad we had that Rockies up last episode. Padres, one of the teams that weren't happy with what's going on, and now they sure are after they mop up. Dude, Luriano's everywhere. You know I love that. San Diego, hot, hot, hot. The D-backs take two out of three from the Phillies, little NLCS reminder. D-backs. win that first game. Philly scored four in the fourth, but that wasn't enough to hold off the hungry dogs of Arizona.

Soroka, another strikeout start to him. Phillies win the middle game. Dude, Taiwan Walker fighting out there, but not with much. Jose Fernandez, is this kid clutch? Big eighth inning RBI for the D-backs to take the set. That's what happens in Philly. This is what happened in L.A. The Dodgers win another series.

They take the first two games. They knock around Kumar Mark. Max Muncie with a game for the ages. Three homers passes Steve Garvey on the Dodgers all-time list. Edwin Diaz, tough, but big old Max picks him up. Otani leadoff homer, absolutely. They knock around lighter. Tough series for you and me, Trev.

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Jack Cahannowitz, he had a nice outing. Seven innings pitch, two hits, only one earn run. And he gets usurped by Jose Soriano, who's one of the breakout stars in baseball this year. First MLB player to four wins, seven shutout innings, an ERA of 033, Don't ask what the bullpen did after that. The halos get back to 500 as they take two out of three from the Cincinnati Reds, and that's what happened in the National League. How can we never brought up my stats against Swaka again?

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Rob's getting the stats. In the National League, we're going to start out east because those brands. Braves. Best record in the East, not their second best record in all baseball. I forgot about those Dodgers. 10 and 6. The Miami Marlins, 8 and 8. And then everybody else was seven wins. Philly 7 and 8, Washington 7 and 8 in the Mets, man. There's some teams. You look at our preseason power rankings, and there are some teams. There are some teams. Seven and nine for them. In the Central Pirates on top of the division, 9 and 6, Cincinnati, 9 and 7, Milwaukee in St. Louis, both 8 and 7, and the Cubs, 7 and 8, and then out west.

11 and 4 for the Dodgers. The Padres riding that sweep, 10 and 6 for them. Arizona, 9 and 7, and then the Rockies, 6 and 10, and then the Giants, man. Like, what do we make of the Giants? Six and 10. Those are the standings to the National League. It's not getting late for a lot of teams, but San Francisco. We can't get out of April with, you know, eight back in the division.

Treve, let's give the A's some love because they came to the big city and they put on a show. And their pitching put on a show, which was kind of the A's question mark coming into the year, that if you want the athletics hype train, if you thought this was going to be their dark horse season to kick in, and I guess it would be a glass half full of. Not a ton has gone right. Like the offense is sitting middle of the pack, the pitching middle of the pack-ish. Kurtz has his second longest homer streak.

He breaks out of that. But if you know baseball, don't be surprised. If he starts really going, he's got the second best exit Velo in baseball. That, yeah, the athletics, an amazing New York trip. Yeah, especially if you look at this series, because typically if you're thinking about the A's, how do you win a series if you're them?

My offense has to score 11 runs, right? Like that's score a seven or more runs and I think we're going to win the game. That's kind of how, at least from the outside looking in, that's what you would think. The offense is there. They did get that in game two, but the other two games they won, 4.1.

So you're right. The pitching showed up against the Mets, and the Mets have been, you know, kind of struggling here. But J.T. Jen goes to Jack Perkins and they shut them out in the first one. You'd mention Aaron Savali having a good start to the season for the A's. So if they can get any semblance of pitching, that offense is going to be there during the year.

It truly, truly is. If they can get some decent starts, just keep them in games. And the bullpen was a problem last year. We'll see if they can figure some stuff out there. But with the way they swing the bat and the way they're going to this year, it wouldn't shock me if we saw the A's kind of go on some of these runs. like we've seen in this New York trip.

They have some guys, man. Yeah. Any Mets thoughts? I think Jolly's going to get involved in the Friday episode. And like we're saying, in this part of April, your view of your team can change over four games still. But, man, there's been some weird Mets stuff going on in Flushing, dude. It's been that way.

Every time we try to walk away from it, it kind of like rears its ugly head again. A lot of weird Lindor stuff going on right now. Like lapses on the base path, forgetting the outs on defense, just kind of bizarre stuff that you don't see from a guy of his caliber. But it seems to me, Coach, like there's some issues. Yes. With Lindor.

I think that's fair. I'm not in the clubhouse. So I'm not like really sure what's going on on on a day-to-day basis. But if you're just looking at the situation, you have to say, what's going on? Is he, is he not happy? Is he not motivated? Is he, you know, what is it? He had the famous quote that I love.

I'm not motivated. I'm disciplined. Is the discipline gone? Right? Like at this moment, I'm talking about one of the all-timers, man. This guy's a stud. But it doesn't look right. When you truly look at short stops and you start in like the,

live ball era where Lindor is currently at in his career pretty wild. Like, yes, like an all-time shortstop. And yeah, man, so many mental lapses. And, you know, he did miss spring training with the ham ape, but there are some weird rumors going around with him and the other big dog that I don't know. Everything obviously gets magnified when you're losing baseball games. That you got to start throwing up some wins in the wind column. But yeah, those boo-birds after a 1-0 loss, it was loud.

Yeah, I mean, Luis Robert off to a nice start. Like if you would have told me that, I said, hey, the Mets are going to be doing well, but Boba Chet hasn't been going at all. Marcus Simeon is kind of the bat, again, not there. Viantos had like a good series against the Giants. People thought, hey, what are we going to do with him? Like, is he going to be part of this offense again? He's been struggling ever since then.

Polanco off to a bad start. So there's just a bunch of bad offensive starts. You know, talking to Jolly is like, you know, we get to see Peterson and Manaya kind of piggyback, and we got to kind of figure that out. You mentioned Sango with the start. It wasn't very good. Carson Bench hasn't been who we thought.

I mean, there's just been a lot of underperforming. I don't want to bring this up, but I don't know. How much do you want to talk about Lindor? I think we're good. Like I said, I think Jolly's going to show up on Friday, so let's let's let it flush out a little bit. bit. There's a Jason Kip,

this interview like a while ago that talks about Lindor that I feel like is eye opening. But you can search that on your own. Do you want the good news or the bad news? What's that? Bad news.

Mets going on a road trip. Dodgers Cubs. So that's... Okay. Hey, maybe that'll bond the team and let's go, let's go. The good news, Tommy Fam, contract selected.

We said that. Hey, if you want to, you want to, You want to spice up the locker room a little bit? Why don't we get Lindor Soto and Tommy Fam in a room and figure it out? Oh my goodness. Because some will happen. Something will happen.

And yeah, just a reminder, Jeff McNeil came back and got a lot of love. And one of the questions asked for him was, was it a rat or was it a raccoon? So that's what we're dealing with here, people. He had also had an interesting face when they asked him about Lindor. So deal with that, what you will. let's give some positivity to the world, and it starts with the Washington Nationals, who they want it, Treff.

They're playing a fun brand of baseball. The offense. Yes, the offense. The offense, when we're talking about a lot of these teams who are struggling, the Mariners trying to come out of it, Yankees and Mets. When the sticks go away, it's really hard to win in this sport, analytics.

Well, the Nats have a top five offense in pretty much every category, average, on base, OPS, runs, homers, and steals, including Big James Wood Stealing home on a little double steal. The bunts were out. Don't read a lot of the pitching stats, but you can read Foster Griffins that, hey, the Nats head into Milwaukee and take their lunch. Kind of do what you'd expect Milwaukee to do. They played a little, you know, fight fire with fire.

They're running the base as well. You mentioned just kind of putting the ball in play. double steel right here. Oh, man. Pat Murphy, what was he like after these games? We have a couple quotes. I've got good news for you. Give me the quotes right now. So Joey Weimer, bunt single to get it to get off the three successful bunt inning. Pat Murphy said, Renhifo's got to be there to make the play. There's no excuse for that. It's the ninth inning. You have to play closer than that. He wasn't in the right position. He didn't get there quick enough, knowing the runner's speed, it wasn't even a good bunt.

Where's the coaches yelling at Renifo? Usually that's what they do. They're top stepping and get in here. Right. That's your beat Vivas with the successful safety squeeze. And then Drew Millis, another one. But it was that old big McGill who calls himself at saying his PFP's got to be better. Yeah, Miguel was not happy during that inning right there.

I want to be either. There's just, I've been, I've been saying this for a long time. You just don't practice it. That's, that's, that's, that's, that's all it is. And it's not even like a big league minor league thing. Like in the minor leagues you don't practice it. And maybe it's changed, dude. Like, I hope it's changing.

But that's just something you just don't do on a consistent basis. Field buntz, PFPs, pickoff plays, first and third place. You literally just never practice those, except in spring. training. Spring training is the only time. So by the time the season starts, you're just out of whack a little bit, man. And you got your and these, there's so much information now that guys' minds are like, okay, especially pitchers. Like they've gone over so many scouting reports and they're just trying to make their pitch and usually they're dumb anyways. So they can only focus on one thing. They don't even care about stolen bases. Like, I'll just get this guy out here. I'm like,

well, we should probably care about the guy getting in the scoring position, dude. But that's why it works. It's why it works. There's a time for it. And it's all every game. There's a time for it. Everything seems to be circling back. You know who might not need that is James Wood. He's one dotting on the season now. He is 23 years old. Just a reminder, I think James Wood being a little hidden in Washington has been, I'm not going to say bad for baseball. That's a little dramatic. But he wasn't a guy. There was a ton of hype on coming into the season. I know he,

he kind of limped to the finish line a little bit, but at an 825 OPS last year was killing it through the All-Star break that I don't know, he's just a special player in this league. No ballpark is safe from him hitting a home run. This is his only pulled home run of the year. Yeah, it's beautiful. It's just silly how good righty, lefty, split-proof,

like this dude is a superstar. Him and C.J. Abrams have kind of been carrying the offense, which that's been... CJ Abrams carrying the offense. Joy Weemers had a nice start to the year. You mentioned they're just kind of, they're taking the extra base, man. And when you have a young manager,

I'm sure that's like all they talk about. Young managers. Lake Butera, baby. Lake Buterra. Hey, guys, we're going to take the extra base and we're going to be the best team going first or third. And we're going to put pressure on the defense. And you're like, all right, Skip.

And then usually they just forget about that. But Blake Beterre, he ain't forgetting. That's the job. I also want to say this before because the Braves have the best pitching in baseball and we mention all the injuries. Just of note, a new pitching coach, former Mets pitching coach, Jeremy Hefner.

Braves? The Braves. Yeah, again, horrible timing for this. Brave fans probably don't want to. Jay-B. Martinez assistant pitching coach, I think. Okay. Okay. Brewers, get it together.

Otherwise, your manager's going to be real mean to you. That's kind of it. That's kind of it. Yelly a little bit up. Oh, I also found out real quick. Sidebar, a little off the beaten path here. My favorite John Boy Media employee, Taylor Jackson. Yeah.

Huge crush on. Tarang? What's the second base name? Terang, yeah. Good, huge crush. Handsome guy. Yeah. Like kind of a bad boy, but also like seems like nice.

Sweet lefty swing. I get it. Dude, it's kind of easy power. His swing is nice. Easy power from Terang. Brewers clean it. Clean it the fuck up. People, baseball is here.

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and introducing broker registered with CFTC and a member of the NFA. We stay in the Mighty Central. The Pirates take two out of three from the Cubbies. This series could have been two or three. It could have been three or three. Pittsburgh. Could have been, either team could have swept this series. It came down to moments in each game.

Great fucking analysis. a couple back-to-back curses. But it really did. I mean, you know, if you tuned in to the sixth inning, you saw Shodaminaina not allowing a hit. Crazy foul ball numbers by the frisky pirates. I think literally set a record. They break through.

They get the win in that first game. Cubbies with an awesome rally in that second game, but they blow it in extras on defense. And then they rally in the final game. So what do you see, coach? I am I'm stoked for the Pirates fans because they again

I feel like I say this every single time we talk about the pirates like the guys they brought in to bolster the offense to bolster the offense like B. Low has been incredible for them you know I believe it's a grand slam

this first one the second homer he hits in this game play that one because that is an absolute that thing you don't see balls hit up there was the wind blowing out So I will say this, and now I'm putting Rob on the spot.

Rob, if you could find O'Neill Cruz's Homer from this same game, the wind was blowing out at Wrigley. This was a bomb. Look where this one ends up. Treb. Oh, my gosh. O'Neill Cruz. I know talking baseball people aren't happy with me because I, the quote wasn't great,

but I was just like, I didn't have Wrigley as one of the Fenways or Yankee Stadium short porch. Obviously, the wind at Wrigley is a thing and it's known. This year has been jarring so far. I do think April is one of the craziest months. O'Neill Cruz, I thought it was a pop-up. I thought it was like a Bermuda Triangle pop-up, and I know he's, you know, 6-7 and a monster.

I just thought it was... I mean, I get it. I get it. But dude, it lands deep, track. Yeah, from where it landed, you're right. What was the stats on it? 111, and it's probably like a 34... What's that launch angle say, Bob?

41. 41. 41. That's what I'm saying. You hit it into the jet stream and let that bad boy ride that day. Hell yeah. Which I felt bad. James and Tyone.

I watch both of those homers. And you see the outfielder tracking and then just like, oh, no. That's not even going to be close. Yeah, it's, I mean, like the pirates are in first place, man. Yeah. And like Bubba Chandler hasn't figured it out necessarily. Like they like they're, they're. So are the twins.

What are they at in the offensive rankings? Sometimes it's fun to look at, even though it's early in the seas. Okay. All right. All right. Seventh in OBP, ninth in OPS, 12th and runs. I mean, they'll take that over a full season. Yes. They will take that. No doubt. Oh my gosh. All right. Go Pirates go, man.

O'Neill Cruz is banging. Cubbies, I'd say they're the, they're one of the teams this year that hasn't gotten hot and hasn't gotten cold. It feels like they've been winning or losing every other game almost. that has them at the bottom of the table. Two games back of the Pirates. I don't know. I'm not going there. O'Neill Cruz has looked amazing.

If he stays looking like this, that very much changes the Pirates formula for this year. They're facing those mighty nationals. Paul Skeen's versus Cade Cavalli? Absolutely. Is Connor Griffin here to stay no matter what? Oh, interesting. 408 OPS, you know.

10 strikeouts to two walks. I know he's made some good defensive plays. I think so. The energy is nice to have, but how long does that last? I guess they don't really have like a replacement. No, I'll take it back. Because I get mad at my Yankees for doing it. I think the right, if it were to get ugly,

yes, let it. Pretty ugly, coach. I know, but I mean, how many games are we talking at this point? Nine games, 34 at bats or 34 played appearances. Give me, for the kids, give me a month. Okay. I'm in, too. I want to see him kind of figure some things out. I can give you Nick Kurtz, who started very slow, and then he was the best hitter in baseball. I give you Jackson Holiday, who I think he needed the reset.

I don't think you should live, I don't think you should live by rules. Don't live by rules. Okay. Okay. Padre sweep the rocks. I think, you know, there's a chance we could have had that one coming into the season. It happened with the two walkoffs, Walker Bueller 6 scoreless. I mean, no, as the season continues. And then I mentioned my guy, Luriano, is everywhere.

Jackson Merrill gets one. I know you want to talk a little bit about this later, but I guess what else do you have for now? Yeah, I mean, I'm giving something to the pods later. I will say that I'm happy that they got going. We're questioning the starting pitching staff, and now we lose Povetta, so that's something of note here. Like forearm tightness.

I don't know if we have like a diagnosis yet. But that's something to watch for a team that I have very high hopes for. The long ball was prevalent in this series. That's something that's plagued them. Yeah. We got Fernando Tate's Jr. start at second base. Yeah, I love that. Apparently just to like rile him up a little bit.

Why not? And like they wanted a bogey to have an off day. So they said that was our best option at second base. and like interesting reasons for it. But okay, like he looked good, I guess. I wonder if Fernando was like stoked on and they're not happy. It's like a really weird thing to do.

I bet he's, I bet it feels better when you win. And they're, they're scoring runs. By the way. What's that? Rocky's talk. Sugano's been great for them.

Yeah, I can't. I can't. Padres are hitting Homer. stealing bases, scoring runs, pitching, playing defense. Everything's rating out pretty well right now. They've got a fun little Mariners matchup. And Padre fans were pretty down on this team, literally a week ago.

And now it's very early people. A little bit of Rocky's medicine. Little bit of the medicine season is here. It's the season of the sticks. And I win five, eight of their last 10 for the San Diego. daddies. Again, more coming on them later. Coach Trev, Snakes, Phil's.

I'll let you go. Again, this was a final game, final eighth inning away from being a different decision. I think Philly fans are probably excited that Harper's starting to look better. Trey Turner gets his first home run, but they end up dropping this series. And again, the A's steal the West Coast coming east highlights, but the Diamondbacks having a nice little east coast trip. Does Dot want to talk about?

Jose Fernandez is this guy the real deal or what? He's the real deal. Maybe he's playing with a ton of energy and he's getting clutch hits, which... I have more Phillies on this because I was talking a shelf about it. Sure. He's viewing the season.

Disappointed, obviously. He says, hey, man, the Phillies like they need to score at least five runs right now and he's like, they just can't do that. And the Vbacks can. They did it in the first game. Our guy, Jose Fernandez, looks like a little spark plug for them.

And what Shelf said is they have no juice. They need somebody, someone young to come up and energize. And Crawford really hasn't been that. Harper hasn't looked himself. They're looking a little oldish right now, the Philadelphia Phillies. It's cold. It's cold.

It could be. It could be. I mean, the game three, they got going a little bit. A little Trey Turner, Bryce Harper, answering back. But then, yeah, Jose Fran has took it back from them. Merrill Kelly coming off the I-L. The snake's starting pitching is, oddly enough,

kind of been their strength this year. So let's see where that goes. And, yeah, let's see how rowdy Philly fans start getting because we know they can rowdy with the best of them. Oh, Phillies, Cubs this week. Sign me up. Let's go. Okay, okay.

Let's go. Rangers Dodgers, Trev. The Max Muncie game, three homers, including the walk-off, basically as good as you can possibly do. You know Andy Pot has went yard, because he's been unreal this year. Like I said, Edwin Diaz, his first tough Dodger outing

blows a three-run lead in the ninth. All of that is to say the Dodgers kind of dominated. They knocked Jack Lider around pretty good, although Nimmo fought in that game. And DeGrom, if you're going to beat the Dodgers, your starting pitcher needs to have a lights-out outing, and DeGrom brought that on the final day. I mean, the Grom's start was amazing, considering it started off with an absolute laser from Shohei. But, you know, he's Jacob de Grom. On the broadcast, they said two Hall of Famers facing off.

Like, is DeGrom a Hall of Famer? I think so. I think it's a matter of, with the holly. Weird, yeah. With pitchers because nobody racks up innings like they used to. The war is thrown off that I, I think back-to-back, Cy Young's one day probably gets you there.

I think he's nasty, dude. It's so good to see him back throw in the ball the way he has. But you're right. This one's all Dodgers, man. They just look, they look, they look unbeatable. right now. They truly, truly do.

If you're talking about especially over 162, what they're going to do, we know they're going to be there. But in the playoffs series, the longer it goes, the more like this offense has a chance to just wear you down. You know, they have weapons in the bullpen. They have the starting pitching. Like, they just have a little bit of everything. And they're getting, you mentioned, Antipas has been incredible to start the year.

You're going to talk about the guy, or, guy Max Muncie a little bit, but like just up and down the lineup, they have ways to beat you. And they have, and that's not even talking about the top of their lineup. I know. It's hard. It does get difficult to talk about the Dodgers on this show because it's like, you end up saying the same thing. You have this incredible roster put together that is inevitable. It's not going, it might not, well, it's not, it might be inevitable.

It is inevitable. Like this team is going to win upwards of 90, five to 100 games, and then we'll see what happens in the playoffs. It's they are that good. Fan graphs playoff percentages, which if you click around the league, everyone's kind of,

if you're one of the better teams, you're kind of looking at like a 45% chance to make the playoffs. Some of them are higher than that. How about this? For example, the Padres and DeBacks are both at 39% to make the playoffs this year. Great.

We're, you know, we're 16 games in. Dodgers are 99.4%. to make the playoffs. It just is what it is. The offense is arguably the best in baseball with more room to grow. Shohei gets on base every game, 46 straight. And that moved him. The fifth longest Dodger streak of all time.

He's got the longest Japanese streak. I think he passed Echero in game one. It's freak show stuff that I get Dodger fans. You want more in there. I have more coming. this episode. And I guess, yeah, my final thing, you mentioned DeGrom Hall of Fame because I was like, ooh, back-to-back, Cy Young's, you also instantly think of Tim Lin-Sacom.

Tim Linsicum ended up having a career 374 ERA under 20 career war, 19 and a half. DeGrom is 48-5-year-war, a career 258, which I believe has him as the active active major league leader, which, okay, but special guy, special baseball player. What did we just get sent in our group chat about Hassan Kim? I don't understand that at all. Let's see. Every time he slides, his imprint of his abs pop up. Oh, that's abs. Yeah. Oh, okay. I'm in on that. That's crazy. That's not real, is it? I mean, Haisson Kim mused when it lie to us. On Twitter.

Shout out. I son Kim Muse. Roki with a mixed bag. Evan Carter with a nice swing off Roki. Yeah, it just doesn't look like there's any conviction on the pitches. Like it looks like he's, I don't want to say the word scared out there. Okay. But I don't feel like he's like going out there thinking he's going to do well.

I think I would agree with that. Which is not where you want to be as a starting pitcher. Right. Instead of what's going to go right, it's a little bit of what's going to go wrong. Yes. That's fair. That's fair. Treve, you know, it was obviously our best Western Road warrior,

so I highlighted my Halos that Cahannowitz without striking out anyone. Soriano, while striking out everyone. Halos win a nice road series against the Reds team. That's a half game back of the Pirates for first place in the Central. That's all I kind of have. You nailed it, coach. Soriano with a great start to the season. season.

The Angels have some, they're like a fun team to watch. Whether it's some, you know, some brawls, whether it's some injections, whether it's just some good old-fashioned butt weapons they're putting on teams.

I'm tuning in the Angel Games. Right? West Coast Trev. Yeah. West Coast Trev. Okay. Yeah. There's some trout talk,

you know, started off really hot, kind of slowed down a little bit. But they have, they have a fun offense, man. They do. I love Netto. I know I've been given my Miami ball players

maybe too much love. And Jorge Soler. If there's guys, Josh Lowe, Nathaniel's brother, he hits a home run. He is an OG on my, the ball goes much further than you think team.

He just hasn't been hitting a ton. Jorge Soler kind of not on that team because when he hits it, you think the ball is just, just exploded. It's going to go, yeah, yeah, yeah. You think it's about as hard as a human can hit a ball. And that was talking halos.

Jordan Romano on the back end. Yeah, I'm just kind of, I'm just peeping around the page a little bit. They're, they're an interesting squad. Like, nobody's really standing out offensively to start the year, except for Netto. We talked about Trout starting out hot and then kind of cooling down. So, Lair is doing it. Adam Fraser talk if you want to go there. Always.

Treve, you said, you know, not a ton of guys standing out. Let's talk about who is standing out. It's time for standout. Stand out performances. Stand out performances. This guy stood out for Trev. Say what? Give me a coach.

This guy's, he's been doing it, I'm talking my guy, Parker Messick, left-handed pitcher for the Cleveland Guardian, six and two-thirds on Saturday, only four hits, zero earned runs, and five Ks, man. On the year, he's been great, and he's facing really, really good teams. This year he's faced the Dodgers, the Cubs, and the Braves in his first three starts, a 0.51 over 17 and two-thirds. He's been nasty. A 204 ERA and 10 career starts,

a guy that just kind of throws a bunch of different pitches. You have five pitches. He throws over 10% of the time. A young guy out of Florida State. We were talking about Florida State this weekend a little bit with our guy, Chad Hall, but not a guy that's going to overpower you with stuff. He just is a pitcher.

He mixes it up. You know, I like that. So shout out Parker Messick, man. I'm interested to see if he's kind of like the next in line. Like the Guardians, they know how to pitch. They figure that out every single year. And Parker Messick is a big example of that. Yeah, when Rosie was on, he mentioned Parker Messick. I kind of jokingly was like, who's going to be, who's the Guardians guy this year? Because I know Cantillo has some hype train to him and when his breaking stuff is right.

Parker Messick feels like the guy. The name kind of fits. And this is just what Cleveland does, that he has been dominant and it's what gives Cleveland. How much would Houston love to have a Parker Messick right now? And Cleveland, they just deserve credit as an organization. This is what they do. Houston has done that for a while. They've done well with their pitching as well. But yes, would they like him now?

Yes. Yeah, I think you could almost slide in that whole Cleveland rotation into Houston's right now. But not the offense, but just have chased a lot or turn on a couple balls. He got another one. Good standout, Coach Trev. I'm going with someone who stands out

if you're watching a baseball game because, Treve, I think he's got an argument for the fastest guy I've ever seen on a baseball field. I really do. Chandler Simpson for the Tampa Bay Rays, getting to watch him this weekend. And it's always a treat. I love speed on the baseball field.

This is the lamest part of this speech, but when I play baseball video games, you won't see a more aggressive base runner because I think speed is, I think speed is underutilized when it comes to baseball. Speed can be such a weapon, and this guy has one of the biggest weapons I've ever seen. When he gets on base and there's a base ahead of him,

it's pretty much he's going to get it. Although I think stolen basewise, he's seven and two on the year, two caught stealing. So, all right, let's just make sure we keep those down. Pickoffs? They might be pickoffs. Oh, yeah, we could look into that. But, I mean, like, that was just, that's a double into the corner for every other player, and he's standing on third base.

And as we talked about, whether it's the bunts in Washington, or whether it was the extra innings in this game or the eighth inning in this game, if you need one run and he's on the bases, he's kind of going to make it happen. Like the Yanke... I know the Yankees defense should be criticized and some of the mentality behind it, but they were also...

The Yankees defense was in cuffs. When you got Simpson running off of third... Like... Yeah, what are you going to do? A ground and infield it... The Yankees infield had to play further in because Chandler Simpson was on third. So the odds of you getting a ball right to you

that you field clean enough for that guy to not get to home plate with him with a lead, it's near impossible. You kind of get in your head, you're like, wait, do we actually let the tying run score? Because we can't get him. It's a mental mind fuck, and Trev above that,

in his rookie year where he got sent down and we're kind of like, Ray's, what are you doing? He ends up playing 109 games. 2.95? Got on base at a 326 clip, which that's going to be the big number for him. Well, this year, he's leading the AL and hits with 23. He has a 411 batting average. I don't know if that holds, but he's getting on base at a 441 clip, man. And if this guy does that, you're just giving up runs. Special player. Forty four swipes last year. I know the slugging isn't going to be there for him, although it is right now because he's hitting 411.

I know there's a stat out there for this already, but in our book of stats, just taking the stolen bases and adding a base to his OPS, like that's how I will think about it. Probably pretty good. He's a special player. I've watched a few Ray games, Ray's games this year. He's kind of hit all over the lineup. I told you at one point he was hitting fourth for them, which is interesting. But they're kind of getting back to their ways, man. and obviously he's a big part of it.

It makes you wonder how many guys you'd think, like, can I just go get a dude that can run and figure out ball? Like, can I take a high school track star and say, hey, man, let me just take you into the cage and let's work on hand-eye stuff and put you in the big leagues and would it work?

Could you be a tarant score, my guy? All right, P. Yeah. It seems like there's still like a base runner, that hasn't been figured out yet. The whole Tarynx score thing was that for a while. Before that, who was it? There was another guy that was.

Joey Gathright? Billy Hamilton. Implementing like, hey, the end of season, one of our 26 spots is going to go to a guy that can absolutely burn on the base pass because that's important. Treve, you'd love looking at his baseball. John Dyson.

Drod Dyson. You'd love looking at his baseball savant, Treve. I'm looking at it. First percentile and barrel hard hit bat speed. But he's a hundredth and squared up with percentage and K percentage. And I'll tell you what, Trev, I have another theory about that that you're probably, you might hate this one. I think if you're this, guys that are this fast are rarely that good at defense.

I don't know what it is. Okay. Like Billy Hamilton ended up being pretty good at defense. But I don't, like, In the outfield, it seems like a simple formula, right? Like, the faster you are, the more balls you could get to. It doesn't really work like that. No one's got a good arm.

You don't have a good arm if you can run. He does not have a good arm. And, dude, he is a rough watch defensively. Yeah. Which is just bizarre. You'd think that would go hand in hand, and it rarely does in baseball. Yeah, that's interesting.

I'm trying to think of, like, guys that are super fast with great arms. I mean, you could talk to Bobby Witt and stuff like that. Yeah, I mean, Some of the elite, elite guys are just elite and everything. But like... The outfielders that are fast that have good arms each row. So yeah, we're talking like... Each row...

Yeah, inner circle Hall of Fame. But yeah, it just doesn't... It doesn't always work like that. Ben Revere, one of the weirdest arms I've ever seen in my life. Tough. And weird is a nice way to put it. There's some guys that still throw weird and it makes me really happy. Jaron.

Jared Duran is another great example. Yeah. Okay. There's, when there's smoke, there's fire. Comment below. Iron Bucks didn't throw the shit out of the ball. One of the best athletes ever play this game.

Okay. Okay. Trev, with standout performances, there was like five San Diego Padres that could have been picked. Silor Soderstrum didn't get love on the way through. And man, he deserved a lot of love. always there's a couple pitchers

kind of all of them did get love so good for them Luke Rayleigh who is in Fuego Dirt Nasty's on Fuego That means I'm on fire baby Like Waco It's time for In Fuego Powered by Amazon just like how Amazon is there to save the day When you're in a pinch we're talking about the guys

Who have been doing everything they can To save their teams this past week All right for the series How about Ellie Day of the Cruz? Six for 12, two doubles, two homers, four runs driven in. Our guy, Jake Bowers, four for nine, two homers, four runs driven in. Your guy, Ramon Loriano, four for 11, a double and two homers.

He's slugging 862 at home this season. That's the best in all of baseball. Brandon Nimmo, okay. Six for 13 against the Dodgers, a double two homers, five runs driven in. He recorded his 11th career multi-homer game. He also had his 15th leadoff homer of his car. Career Dalton Varshow. Congratulations.

Welcome to the club, my friend. It's his 100th and 101st career home run. Welcome to the triple digit club. There's no other club. There's no four digit club. Six for 14 in the series, two of them with four runs driven in. And then for the week, we mentioned Bryce Harper, not getting off to a great start, but he's trying to win us back.

10 for 19, four doubles a homer, six runs driven in. he's slugging 938 on breaking pitches this season. I have seen that. He's been getting blown up by fastballs, but he's been hitting those off-speed pitches. Maybe we need to change that around a little bit. You got to be on the heater two, Bryce. But nice week for him.

Anheel Martinez, there's always a Cleveland Guardian. Yeah. Somewhere on this list. 10 for 21, two doubles of Homer, six runs driven in. He's missed on just 11% of swings on non-fastballs this season. He's putting the ball and play, people. That's what he's doing.

And A's second baseman, Jeff McNeil. 10 for 21 on the week, three doubles, two runs driven in, and like you mentioned, a really nice applause for Mets fans on his homecoming to City Field. That's his on Fuego. He made a nasty stop at second base, too. He's a ball player. He really is. He's like the definition of just grindy ball player who can also get hot for you.

Brandon Nimmo. I want to get these numbers up because I think he's having an amazing start to the season. Yeah. Brandon Nimmo 367 433 103 of 1.033.

Yeah. Compare that to Simian and it ain't looking pretty. Thanks to our partners at Amazon. Shop Amazon, save on essentials and save the everyday. Ellie Day LaCruz, too. Those reds are off to a nice start.

I know they got outshined by the halos, but how do you like this? that. Okay, everyone buckle up. It's time for the low part of the show. Let's do some batters who are struggling. Badders who are struggling, we have the week and the season. Now, Pete Alonzo for Baltimore, two for 23.

Again, in that last game, he got a nice 2 RBI double. Maybe that's what can light the spark for him. That's why we have these guys on this list. It's to get him off. Adoles Garcia, currently in a one for 20. That's who Philly brought in. Try to spark their offense. Jake Berger for Texas,

feel like he was getting off to a nice start. Two for 24 recently. Not great. Munitaka Murakami, Trev. This is the concern. Once the league starts to see you. One for 20, he's still got seven walks in that time frame. so tracking the ball.

But yeah. And hey, there's some good hitters on this list. Salvi Perez, two for 25. Baseball comes for everyone. Let's get those guys off the list. For the season now, this is scary because this is just like, this isn't, I guess this is badders who are struggling.

The Crohn's Zone. Jake Croninworth, my guy, 8 for 52. He's winning at life, though. He really is. Was playing shortstop? next to Fernando, right? That's what put him. A favorite old one.

How do you like that? Let's get it going, Jakey. Cedric Mullins, 7 for 51. He's on the raise now, if you forgot. Harrison Bader, signed with San Francisco, 115 batting average.

That's how you go to not hit. You just go to San Francisco. Yeah. That's tough. It's going to get better. He's a streaky guy. You know I love Harrison Bader. Coach him up, Tony.

and Nolan, Nolan Aeronado, nine for 50. Remember, two teams have paid for him to go play baseball somewhere else. Let's find it, Nolan. Let's find it. Hall of Famer, my God.

And maybe all those guys will. That's who's struggling right now. And I guess there's only one worst list. It's the IL. And guys that have been placed on the ILC, Since we last spoke, I hate this one. Griffin Conine for Miami. We just talked about it.

He was one dot in it, fueling that Miami offense. A couple arms I like. Jeremiah Estrada goes on the aisle for San Diego. Christian Javier. They're hoping for mid-May. Phil Mayton for the Cubbies, hoping that's a short one, right knee. Parker Meadows, man.

That was tough. That was that collision with Riley Green. He stayed overnight in the hospital. six weeks minimum. He had a solid little start to the year. Jake Myers for Houston, six to eight weeks, oblique. Send the text, coach. Brent Rooker, oblique. Oh, gosh, this list is so long.

I know, it's brutal. Brent Rooker, four to six oblique, send the text. Joe Boyle, right elbow, no structural damage for Tampa. Royce Lewis for the twins, hoping left knee short time. Adley Rushman, left ankle soreness, short timeline TBD, Hunter Harvey out of the Cubs pen, Tyler O'Neill concussion for Baltimore, hate that.

Gabby Moreno for Arizona. Back. Ryan Mountcastle, we mentioned the foot, Springer, Big Toe, let's see. That's a lot. God, dislike that segment per usual. We start picking up the show with guys who are coming back. I got three. It's a short list,

Jason Adam for the Padres. Luis Hills back for the Yankees. How about that? Say a Suzuki for the Cubbies. We love that. And Despell Hernandez for Atlanta. So yeah. I don't know if it's the cold.

I don't know if baseball is just a sneaky, brutal sport, but it is. So that's the aisle update. Can we, let's pick things up a little bit. Awards are brought to you by Seekek. go to see geek people I'm going with the Call It How You See It Award

And these guys get recognized a ton And since I'm in the space Maybe I'm just a little bit more aware When I hear some good calls Holy Sheets Yeah we had some incredible moments In that San Diego series As they went

And they mopped the Rockies right They mopped the Rockies Yeah A couple walk-off So I want to play the calls for you because Don Orsillo, who's a play-by-play guy, and then Mud, who is the color guys, kind of the job that I do. They're so good together. The energy is great.

And there is just some really good one-liner. So I want Bobo to play the bogey and the sheets calls because they're just so good I want to play them for you guys. Go ahead. The Sheets one, I think, is better. give me the sheets bogey goes boom i don't know i don't know

that's good it's just the energy's there and like dude if you haven't watched the ball game in san diega you got to go it's one of the best atmospheres in in the game and you can just kind of walk around afterwards love it love the area but the one that really got me the reason i gave him this award is sometimes you just got to like think of things or maybe you have them like written down and and and

just got them in your pocket but jackson merrill also hit a home run and I believe this is mud talking here about the sound off the bat. It off? High drive, deep right field. There's some Merrill madness for you right out of the yard. Oh, he squares that one up. That's like slapping a couple of two-by-fours together. Oh, like a cue ball on the tile floor.

Like that's so good. Like the two-by-four is slapping together, okay. But the cue ball off the tile floor, that's just next level. stuff you know what happened is like either he was playing pool one day and the cue ball hit the floor and he's like it's a loud noise oh bank that for my broadcast or like he just was on the on the fly i don't know man either way uh it's incredible i wanted to highlight a little bit of what was going on down there in san diego in the atmosphere because it looked electric uh but then these guys are just so so good together that i don't know i wanted to give him an award so call it like you see it award goes to don or sillo and mark grant smud Holy sheets. So good. One of the best booths in the game. Yeah, they have fun.

They're passionate. It ties into everything with San Diego. That, like, yeah, man, there's such a good... I don't know if the recipe is obvious, and we joke about getting our team in franchise one day. But, man, like, who's in your booth really matters? Because that's how most fans watch every game. Like, they are literally...

who is feeding you your team, that it's so important to the game, and I think baseball's gotten a lot better that I remember, like I remember when Jimmy was first really getting into breakdowns, that that was the first time he was fully diving around the league into different announcers, and even for myself, too, like, I don't know.

I wasn't watching as much baseball back then, but I was, you know, seeing a lot of highlights. Man, there'd be a couple times you'd turn on a broadcast, and be like, what? This is what that fash. fan base gets every night? Yeah. Yeah, you don't want to be rude to people,

but it affects so much of what your fan base consumes. That they have a very, they have an awesome booth and an awesome vibe, and they brought in players. And just a reminder, do they have the second best record in baseball right now? They do. Tide with the Braves, yeah. Yeah, they have been a top-tier organization for the past five or six years, whatever it is now.

Probably there's only one problem for them. And I said, you know, maybe this won't be a coastal elitist episode, but come on now. My award is the little thick award. And speaking of nostalgic, Treve, I don't know if you remember this. This was, I want to say this was maybe the first year of talking baseball. And we're starting to get some listeners, and we don't know what's going on. We're just talking into the microphones and hoping stuff works. And I remember Max Muncie got brought up, and I think I got Jim to crack because, you know,

we know players are starting to listen to us. We know people involved in baseball. And I think we started talking about Max Muncie's body a little bit, and there was just a pause. And I let out, you know, a little thick. And he is. And he is. But guess what? in this beautiful game, it don't matter.

Because we talked about it a little bit, but it needs to be talked about more. Because what he did on Friday night, four for five, three home runs, five runs scored, including the walk-off homer. So did your home runs matter in your three-homer game? They sure did, especially picking up the new shiny closer, like the new party trick in that bullpen. like for a lot of fan bases, that can be a really crippling tough loss. And you start questioning everything.

Instead, Max Muncie, who has been an afterthought with a lot of these Dodgers teams, and it's just true. Like I get Dodger fans who would want to pipe in and be like, he's never been an afterthought for us. In a way, man. And that's because you have Freddie and Muki and Shohei. Even Tay Oscar, like, took a lot of the show. There's just a lot of options on that team.

that Max Muncie has been there through it. And in this game, he becomes the Dodger with the third most home runs in Los Angeles Dodgers franchise history. How nuts that is? Since 1958, it's Eric Caros and Ron Say. And I remember another early talking baseball memory, I was kind of like, I don't know Ron Say that well. And Dodger fans, you want to see the nails come out.

I'm going to wear that one. Well, here's what I do know. I know who Max Muncie is, and I know if I get to talk about him for a long time, I get to tell people how great of a ball player he was. And I, you know, kind of linked to that era of Homer on base strikeout a little bit, but he's a lot more than that, man. He's just really good at walking, and he's really good at hitting home runs. And I've talked about it on here a lot,

how the Dodgers a couple years ago called him. I don't know like, dude, if you're going to play third base, you need to pick it up over there. So he did. And he is just a reminder of this Dodgers organization that Max Muncie, he wasn't a ball player's ball player for a little bit. When he came over from Oakland with a negative war

and a 195 batting average, he could end up on a lot of ball teams, but he didn't coach. I think they released him because I was there. The A just got rid of him. That was my, I mean, I had. No way. I had, yes, dude. I had lunch with him and Stephen Vote when they got rid of him.

I've told this story before. But yeah, he was with the A's in spring training in 2017. They release him at the end of the year. Dodgers picked up on a minor league deal. He spends all of 2017 in the AAA level with the Dodgers, has like a thousand OPS, one dot in it, and then the rest is history coach. So you're welcome Dodger fans.

History with an exclamation point. He has been career Dodger numbers, 232, which I don't know, there's still a baseball old head in you that does like a, ah, 233. 358, all the baseball new heads know how good that is. 485 and 843 career OPS with the Dodgers. I think 2018. It's 2026, dude.

And he's still out here hitting three homer games. I don't know. Very much appreciate Max Muncie. And he's a historic Dodgers player. One of the most historic franchises. He's a historic player for them taken off the scrap heap because of you.

Because, I mean, he'll get 10-year service time next year or at the end of this year. he'll have made after next year $69 million. Hello. Hello. Snaps for Max Muncie. We said we were done with that joke. We'll never be done with it.

Let's write it out. Oh, and I did say that. Let's make that our boomers generation joke. Bobo, shout out. To Seat Geek, use code talking 2026, 10% off your next set of tickets at SeatGeek. Go see Max Muncie. Go see Ellie De LaCruz.

Go see all of these guys. Trev, anything on the way out? I love everyone. Yeah. Big time. May your team win before we talk to you guys on Wednesday. A little midweek, a little saucy midweek? Yeah, what are we going to do?

Let's find out. Let's see what the baseball gods bring us. I did find out that we got ice sports. Oh. Uh-oh. Michael Waka. Coach Trev versus Waka. One for two.

One walk. RBI. RBI double. Don't leave that there. Get the hands in. Daddy Dozier may be telling you what's coming off second base. I don't know. Taylor Ward, come at me, bro. Taylor, with the chase is on.

For the hand.