Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - The Final Week of the MLB Season is Going to Be Insane | Weekly Recap

Episode Date: September 23, 2024

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball. I could tell you about the AL Wild Card. I could tell you about the NL West. Here's what I will tell you. Baseball is hot in the street. Let's talk ball. Oh, showhaver's judge. Tyler Holton.

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I know how to use it. Download it now, code Talking 10. Go see the final week of regular season baseball, or maybe some postseason tickets. me and Bob Euker just peed a little bit. I am Jake Storelli. That is Trevor Plouf, BBD producing. Trev, how are you?

I'm doing great. We had a little bit of tech issues this morning, but it's not going to stop my excitement about the baseball season. I would say this, though. There are some teams, like fans of teams, don't go see a baseball game. Don't go watch your team play. Go do something else.

Go to like a comedy show or something like that. But if your team is, still lucky enough to be in the hunt. Go check some ball out. I do like that. There's a lot of stuff happening, obviously. We got six, seven games left in the season depending on who you are. And you know, at this time of the year, over the last couple years, this is when I really kind of grow to love that third wild card, Jake, because there's a lot of drama that's happening with the tiebreakers, with the series. My Minnesota

twins are still, like, they're on life support. There's just doubt about it, but they could pull through. That's why I brought the hat today. I wasn't not going to wear this thing, but I got to show some support somehow. They might need scary out there. They might need more than support. They might need a big app bat from you or something or a DM to someone on the team, because Trev, I was going to save it on the way through,

but I'll tell you what games, I feel like my soul isn't strong enough to watch. those Boston Twins games this weekend. Both of those teams just in the dark place. It wasn't good. And yeah, that's kind of what showed up. It's nuts. If you have no idea and you're tuning into talking about, hey, these guys are handsome.

Let me listen to them. I guess they talk about baseball and lifestyle stuff. We've got a week left. The AL Wild Card, which seemed like it was going to be nothing all year, has become, the AL Central has reared its ugly head yet again. And the Royals Tigers twins, make sure you're tuned into the standings. The Mariners, yes, the mariners. Are very much alive, but after yesterday they may have more hatred running through them

than Palpatine at this point. Like, I don't, you like that? I got some Star Wars in me. I'm a loser too. In the National League, David Bell gets fired. We're probably not going to talk about too much of that. I think Trev was hanging out with C.J. Abrams. And the N.L. Wildcard, it's stuff.

It has some storylines going. The N.L. West. Yeah, it's going to be very interesting to see where this lands in, as we're getting used to this new wild card format. Is this electric? I think it is. Because we have teams, like Edwin Diaz came in for a two-winning save yesterday. Like we have we have playoff baseball stuff going on, which is really good.

I will tell you something that me and Jimmy talked about a little bit that, you know, I don't know if this is what you want to hear, but how much of the AL Wild Card got dictated by the Chicago White Sox? Because still going to be. I know. And like that's kind of not a good thing. Like if I was the Mariners, I'd be kind of not happy with that. But I'd be happy with not happy with a lot of things if I was a Mariners fan. I don't know.

Anything you need to get off your chest before we get into it? No, I think we just got to rock and roll. There is a lot of fun stuff to talk about. I'm excited to see where your award goes. I don't know what my award, if it's an upper or a downer. Ooh. I think I'm going to turn it into an upper. That's kind of what I do.

I was told by a wise kid at a college party once. If you're doing uppers or downers, just make sure you head in one direction. When you combine them, that's when you get in trouble. Okay. Let's, because it's Monday, September 23rd, let's do a little American lead. What about an espresso martini? It's me espresso.

Well, I think if you do it with tequila, that's upper, upper? Is tequila an upper? Scientists still don't know. Sabrina Carpenter, Carrie Carpenter, it's going to be a great up. If Carrie Carpenter was on your favorite team, you'd be tweeting at us, exing at us about how good he is. Let's talk, we're talking ball. Let's do it.

And it starts with Carrie Carpenter's Tegra's. They went into Baltimore and they took two out of three after getting rolled in the first game. Corbin Burns getting in postseason form. That's good. James McCann and Colton Couser chasing that rookie of the year with two homers. But then TFA. Things fall apart. The Tigers take game two in extra innings.

They go 10 in that one. one. Riley Green and Zach McKinstree all over that one. Heston Kirsta had three-hit game. Good for the kid. Maybe that'll matter. We'll talk some Orioles kids later. But then the Tigers get it done on Sunday. Carrie Carpenter, two homer game. Wow. Jason Foley gets the save in that one. Parker Meadows is Robin Home runs. Can't wait till everyone sees where the Tigers are at in the standings. and Jordan Westberg is back for the Orioles. Maybe that matters because they've been struggling. Speaking of struggling, the Kansas City Royals, L7, L7.

They only score one run in three games. I mean, part of that is shout out to the Giants pitching staff. Your guy Landon Rup, Trevor will talk about him a lot, Mason Black, and then Blake Snell on the final day. that is not the guy you want to see if you're struggling to score runs right now. The Giants sweep the Royals, and it is panic time. They had a Garrett-Hampson ball that was a couple inches away from being fair. That could have won them a game.

Check out where they are in the standings, getting spooky in KC. The series that doesn't get me too saucy is the Twins at the Red Sox. The Red Sox take two out of three, and both of those wins come in a double header. The twins, they win in 12 innings. They outlast Dick Fitz. Treville talk about that for sure. But they can't do it on Sunday. Tristan Koss's three homer game.

Cut a Crawford, go 7.2 innings while the Red Sox put up a nine on the scoreboard. Go check out where the twins are in the standings. The Seattle Mariners. They've got some sauce. George Kirby owns the Texas Rangers in his career. Six innings, tour and runs. Julio, grab the stretch. He balls out.

He has seven hits in the first two games. Mariners are going to sweep. They're up five runs, and they blow the lead. The Rangers come back. Marcus Simeon walkoff to take the final game, six to five. Remember that when you hear where they are in the standings. The Astros take three out of four from the Halos, and that's obvious. Cacucci continues to ball out for them.

Ronel Blanco continues to ball out for them. What you need to know, Kyle Tucker with a four-hit game. That's big. And Justin Verlander with another tough outing. That's become a conversation piece. The Yankees end up sweeping the Oakland Athletic. Garrett Cole goes nine innings in one game. Rodon, six innings clean.

We like that. Judge Soto, Stan and Claibor Torres people, he is back in leading off for the Yankees and doing good things with the bat. And the series everyone's talking about, the race, they sweep the Blue Jays. Jonathan Aranda's been bawling out. You'll hear about that in Enfuego teaser.

Otherwise, there's bigger fish to fry. That's what happened in the American League. You're so good, Poppy. All four pitches are working right now. are they Cutter Slombo 2 Seamer

You only need three Why are you getting greedy Tate McCray What are the standings Trev Well that's two pop star references already We're going to go It's the AL standings Brought to you by me

And we're going to start out west How about that Houston Five game lead in the division 85 and 71 Over those Seattle Mariners We're hanging on To a playoff to a playoff hopeful week.

I don't know what I just said right there. They're 80 and 76. The Texas Rangers 74, 82. Do I have to read the people that are eliminated? No, screw them. They're dead. Except the Chicago White Sox. Yes.

Texas, Oakland, L.A. Angels. Rest in peace this season. You have the Skoll and Crossbones on baseball reference. I can't read your record. The Central, the Cleveland Guard. have clinched the division at 90 and 67. Right now they sit firmly entrenched, and I believe have they clinched already a buy?

Like dang close if they haven't. The tigers and the royals are tied behind them at 82 and 74 apiece. The twins one game behind those two teams at 81 and 75. And as you mentioned, Chicago White Sox, 36 and 120, they will break the record. worst team of all time. That's incredible. And out east, your Yanks have not clinched the division yet, but they will soon.

They have a one game magic number there. They're 92 and 64. They have the best record in the AL. Baltimore's six games behind them. Baltimore's 86 and 70. Boston, 78 and 78. Tampa Bay, shrieking. They still can't get to our number, unfortunately.

But they can get close if they win out. They'll be a half game short if they win out. They're 78 and 78, and I cannot read Toronto's record because they're also dead. In the wild card, Baltimore holds the first spot. They're four games up on the Tigers and the Royals, who are tied for the second and third spots. I believe Kansas City has a tiebreaker between the tigers and themselves. The twins sit one game back of those teams,

but they hold the tiebreaker on both the Royals and the Tigers. And then as you mentioned, Seattle, two games back of all of those teams for the wild card. Those are the standings in the American League. We're going to get into it right now, people. Thank you, Trevor. Yeah, I think, you know, Jakey Liddix, or I normally try to find the easiest way to phrase it. The Mariners do not have a single tiebreaker. Um, so they, they need to win and be ahead. The tiger is essential. The Tigers, the Tigers, essentially. do not have a tiebreaker. No.

Because they lose to the Royals and the Twins. They have it over the Mariners, which again, hey, maybe we'll get there, whatever. But the Tigers will have to finish above the Royals and the twins, which they currently are. As of today, the Tigers are the sixth seed. I don't think we'll be stimulating, but that would be the AJ Hinch Bowl.

They would currently go play Houston. and the Royals are still in, and the twins would be out. So Yankees and Guardians still chasing the one and two seed in the AL, which with how the brackets are set up, and Houston still being the big bad wolf, that is very important. Trev, I think we dive in with the young kids. That's what we like around here. The Detroit Tigers and the Baltimore Orioles,

They teed it up for three. Man, some of these Orioles numbers, I know we've been talking about it, but after this series, they are 28 and 32 since the All-Star break. I know you're going to talk about some of their youth later, but they've lost five consecutive series. Them and the Yankees were in a race for the ALE East

that is all but over. The Yankees could end that tomorrow night. The Yankees and the Orioles are going to play, so if the Orioles sweep them, I guess you'll hear a little more panic in my voice. And the Tigers are on the other end of the spectrum, man. They've won 11 out of their last 14. I labeled it, you know, what my scouting department saw

was a bunch of kids having fun, hugging each other after home runs, and that momentum has now carried them into the playoffs, if it were today. So I guess in the series in general or in the scope of these teams, What's Trevor Ploof seeing? Yeah, I don't think you were too far off with your assessment of, you know,

exuberance. I think that kind of has been what's happened, amongst other things, obviously. The pitching has been probably the star of go, and it's been kind of not a typical way to get around things. And we've seen a ton of openers. We've seen a ton of bullpen games. We've seen guys who, you know, typically aren't, wouldn't be relied on to throw certain innings,

throwing certain innings. Obviously the back of the bullpen had been good all year, but they have just they have found a way to get it done on the pitching side. Defensive metrics have really loved the Tigers as well. They've come a long way since last year. So they're playing defense.

They're preventing runs with their pitching, with their defense. And then they're just getting like timely hitting from some of the young guys. I think you're, I think you nailed it with that. Like it's been a lot of you know, you know, Trace Sweeney's overall numbers aren't great, but he's had some big hits.

We've had Kerry Carpenter come and look like the Messiah. He's been huge for them. And, you know, it's just, it's been an all-around kind of team effort for the Tigers. And to go on the road to Kansas City and Baltimore with your season essentially hanging in the bounce, like you played some great baseball, you're leading up to it, then you've got to go on the road before the final week of the season and to do what they did. I know Kansas City has been struggling, and I know the Orioles have been struggling as well, but this is big boy baseball, big boy time, and they just took care of business. And again, it's, it's not just one thing that you can point to with them. You know,

like I said, the defense has been great. You have guys robbing home runs. You have guys, you know, multi-home run games. You have, you know, big swings from the bullpen. It's just been, it's just been a little bit of everything. And I think it's, not to reference you too much in this, but it's just kind of like young and dumb and not knowing any better at the right time. It's all kind of just come together for them. And you know what? As a twins fan, I still appreciate what they're doing, dude. Like it's, it's been very, very impressive to watch. Yeah, I think, I mean, the one thing, like if you had to point to the tigers, they pitch. I mean, their season numbers,

you know, Scoobel pulls a lot of weight for that rotation right now, which that'll be an interesting conversation if the tigers get there. And their bullpen, like they have a very legit back end of their bullpen that they only need so much. And now with, dude, Kerry Carpenter, like, I know he's become a bit of a goof on this show because Jesus was a carpenter and Sabrina kind of took that from both of you guys. But this man has a nice.

952 OPS this year. It's in 82 games, but you know, if that was at the mid-season point, we would say, like, he's been one of the best hitters in baseball. It's not like that's a one-month sample. That's, you know, that's like three months of games. Riley

Green, when you're doing your top ex-players in baseball this year, he has to be in the mix that they have a couple guys that they bank on to get it done. It's almost kind of the Royals conversation we would have, except they now have this weird youth depth that I don't, kind of what you're saying, I don't know day and day out, you can't bank on Trey Sweeney or Colt Keith or

Torkelson, although Colt Keith had a run there for a little bit, but one or two of them will do something. And right now, it's like the Guardians formula where somebody is stepping up, whether it's like in the clubhouse saying, like, I want to be the guy to there. That does get a little bit contagious in the clubhouse. You see one of your boys step up and, you know, get a big knock. I want to do that. Like, I play just like him.

I can do that. That seems like what they're doing. Sweeney 7 for 21 on the road trip. Five runs driven in. Jake, on August 10th, the Tigers playoff odds, percentage. Do you know what it was? 0.2. 0.2%, bro.

Now they control their own destiny. There's just a bunch of numbers to support the kind of baseball they've been playing. 27 ERA by the staff in September, 26 and 11 since August 13th. I mean, they're just playing good, fun baseball. And I saw this team many times this year. And if you would have asked me, you know, are they going to even sniff the postseason? I said no. That was early on.

It was too early. That's why baseball, that's why you play 162 because, you know, they were treading water. And, you know, we talked about this on baseball today, Chris Rose and I talked about, like, you know, the leaving or getting rid of Jack Flaherty, getting rid of Mark Kana, you know, do they regret that? And it's almost been addition by subtraction for them.

Obviously, those are two good baseball players and any team would want those guys on the team. But it's a different vibe when you get rid of some of these veterans who they don't really have ties to the organization. So now you get, you bring up some young guys who, you know, have come up through the organization, have played with each other. All of a sudden, Hobby bias is out of the lineup. That changes. I mean, maybe that's the biggest thing that's happened. If we're, if we're really being honest, that changes the dynamic of the team when hobby's, the way he's played, the way he's, I mean, I don't want to say conducted himself.

but it's a different, it's a different feeling. He's paid, he's won a world series, he's done all these things. The sense of urgency necessarily isn't there for a guy like Hobby Bay is. So you remove him from the lineup, you get these young guys in, they start hugging around the plate,

Jake Storelli was all over it, and they put together games like this, man. And Tyler freaking Holton, of relief pitcher slash starting opener, whatever you want to call this guy, hybrid to the map. is third on the team in war. Like it's stuff like that.

Matt Veerling, fourth, by the way. It's been a lot of fun to watch. It's going to be hard for me to not root for this team, even though I got my twins hanging in the balance as well. And they end, as we kind of like mentioned before, they end with three games against the white sucks. Yeah, so they've, honestly, their season may come down to three versus the raise,

who we just talked about. They're playing the raise. who just won three games. And if we know anything about Tampa, they DGAF. They're going to, in some sicko way, want to ruin it for the baby tigers. What is a baby tiger?

Is that a cup? But that's kind of taken in baseball. Are Cubs bears too? What's that all about? That doesn't make sense. Okay. We'll get our animal experts on it. Big Three versus Tampa Bay.

where if they get two, if they get two of those games, you know, against the White Sox, it's just been proven that they're probably getting two of those, which, man, that if they line up with Houston and Hinch and a bunch of kids versus all those Astros Giants, a little, you know, Jesus Carrie Carpenter, but David versus Goliath, if that ends up lining up. AJ Hinge manager of the year. On the other side, Trev, your Orioles. Hey, Corvin Burns.

I like that a lot, getting locked in. Saw a cool demonstration on how he changed his cutter this year to be more of a ground out cutter. I think he was an LB network. Shout out to them. Cows are chasing rookie of the year, but man, the vibes are off, Trev. I don't, what do you say?

what do you do? Because, you know, they're going to be in the dance. They will be in the dance. And it's like what you said with baseball, that 162, you could flip it instantly. If Adley Rushman had had this James McCann to Homer game, we'd be saying, oh, watch, is that going to get them going? God, they need a taste of the good sauce so badly.

Yeah, I mean, that's, I think you're totally right about that. I think there is the potential for them to flip it. You do get Jordan Westberg back. I think that's really big. I'll be talking a little bit more about that at the end of the app. But they are going to be in the postseason. We're barring a complete absolute meltdown over the last six games. I mean, they go to New York, then they end in Minnesota.

Hey, maybe twins can do something. Yeah, you know, it's... It's interesting. It just seems like series after series that a losing has just snowballed for them over the last like six weeks. And I think that's, you can chalk it up to just that. Like you don't want to start having that losing mentality. And for so long in the beginning of the season, they didn't have that. We don't we don't lose series. We don't get swept in a series.

We don't do all these things. And all of a sudden it happens. And they're like, oh, maybe maybe that does happen to us. and we've seen some underperformances. I think the pitching hasn't been great for them. But they're going to have to figure it out and figure it out fast because once these next six games are over, the real lights come on.

That same mentality, quick exit in the postseason, and then what's this whole year for? Like it could happen fast in baseball, and it seems like that's kind of what's going on with the bird here. Well, I'll tell you what, man. again, barring something drastic in both directions. Like, I think the Yankees need to win one more game and the Orioles need to lose one to,

for the Yankees to win the AL East. And Baltimore would basically have to lose out to not make the wild car. Like, the Orioles are in. That man, they are going to be the wildcar team. And Corbyn Burns is going to get that pill in game one. And it's kind of what we've talked about, or Major League Baseball wants the starting pitcher to be more of a thing that if you're the Baltimore Orioles

and Corbyn Burns goes out in that first game in Camden Yards with Corbyn Burns on the bump and he goes seven clean or whatever it is, your season's back on. So it's going to be a week of buildup and getting other bats besides Santon Dair and Gunner going for them because Santander hit what is 43rd. That guy's about to have a basement, excited for him.

Unbelievable. I think he's like top five Homer seasons all time for a switch hitter. Yes. Up there with Chipper Jones. And yeah, it's like him mantle. It's insane. Awesome for him. But yeah, they need, they've got a week.

They need a good juice, man. They just need somebody to step up. Honestly, I think they need Adley to step up. Adly to have a huge game and just get that. feeling back. It's all it takes it. You know, look at, we just, we just talked about the tigers and how grim their outlook was. And then, you know, we talked about how they flipped it, but it could happen quickly for them. Again, we're going to talk a little bit more about some of the baby birds. Yeah. And maybe, I mean, that definitely has something to do with the way they're feeling.

No doubt about that. I had something else I was going to say. Now I can't remember. What the heck I wasn't going to talk about. Let's see if... Oh. Oh. So they should be able, with the lead that they have, to line Corbyn up for game one of a wild card set. That's nice. And so the tigers are hoping they can do that

because I believe at the moment Scoobes is scheduled to pitch like the second to last game or the last game of the season. Yes. And if they're able to clinch before that, then they can move him back. And that changes. I mean, it's a three-game set, it changes.

Right. Everything. Yeah, I think, yeah, Scoobel, I think, is lined up to pitch the last game, which, hey, if they need that,

not bad to have, or for the three-game wild card. Trevor, we mentioned a lot of cities today. Minnesota, beautiful, so many lakes. Detroit, I got to get out there.

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Download the booking app today. Let's keep it going with some of this central because they've taken the spotlight, Trev. Thank God. Awesome. The Kansas City Royals gets, Sweep by the Giants. Yo, the offense shuts down.

Tough to look at. One run in three games. I think they've got one run in their last, or they've had a lead in one inning of their last 50. And I want to piggyback it with the Twinkies, Trev, because they, they win a 12-inning fiasco. That I'll be honest, I wasn't as locked into David Festus start as I'd like to be. He's the start. Good start. Dick Fitz is setting records.

But then they get double-headed, double-blown out, which to be out of playoff contention, vibes can't be too high there. No, it's not. It's bad, bad vibes right now. Bad. The vibes are bad.

We start with the Royals. So, you know, I said this when it happened, and, you know, it's not some, like, you know, Nostradamus, like, take, although I do have those from time to time. when Vinny went out for the Royals I said this is going to be big for them I mean this guy is a run producer

and you can't just find another one of those guys I believe his last game played was like August 29th since then they've averaged under three runs a game they're hitting with runners and scoring position has plummeted

it's it's been the biggest reason why they've had I think they've had two L-7s in the in the this month of September alone. Beavs, can you fact-checked that? I'm pretty sure I saw that somewhere. I don't know about two.

I think they have had two. Yes, dude, they have fallen, and it has been bad, and a lot of it has been because you're missing one of your biggest run producer. The lineup gets a little thinner because of that. And now, yeah, I mean, they are looking to absolutely hold on. It stinks because they played such good baseball, such a dramatic turnaround from last year.

And then if you can, you just don't want to have a September collapsed, dude. Like that's the worst thing that you can do in all of baseball. Bebers, you're shaking her head. What do you got? Yeah, there's two L-7s in there, including the active ones since losing Vinny. They're seven and 14. Second worst record in baseball in that period. White Sox have the worst record.

They're 5 and 16. It's, it's. Blue J's third. they were walking a tightrope you know with their offense and you know it was fun Bobby Wood Jr. is going off

and you're doing all these things and it's Sal and you just people undervalue the RBI and the situational hitting and you know when you lose a guy that's been doing it all year long

it's just it's going to take a toll man and I know Vinny doesn't want to hear that but it's the truth Yeah, I almost, I almost sent Vinny a text just like genuine mental health, like being a friendly guy checking because like, dude, I mean, A, to have that injury happen and then to see what happens with the boys and where they're at. And I was like, me and Vinny kind of aren't on that level.

That would be weird of me to overstep. So I'll check in on another time. I don't think that's what you should ask that. You think I should? Okay. My new rule of life, Jake. Okay. And I'm trying to really implement this is if I'm thinking about it,

someone, I'll send him a text. Hey, man, thinking about you. Okay. Okay. What's the harm in that? Not to flex on you guys. Just got a cool Tucker text. Oh. Yeah, I think Kansas City, I think there was a number. It's 8.50 in the morning on the West Coast. What's going on? Maybe he's not on the West Coast.

Oh, yeah. He's an Aruba. They're rubin my balls. The, I think the Royals, I think they're runners in scoring position numbers recently, are hoard and it's funny that you've been you've harped on that for a while now is one of their team strengths uh yeah during that monday game eight for 52 um over their losing uh so yeah that's um and i dude the other big thing for viny and i mentioned this last time i did like a a big three

baseball exercise which really didn't lead me to too many results who is the third best position player on the royals right now with viny out it's bobby whit it's salvi and then it's I like Massey Massey Freddie Fermin Tommy Fam You know Yeah

No it's it was a thin lineup From the from the get-go But they were getting timely hitting You know they were playing good defense All these things But Who do they have? Who do they have?

Or points on the board Are points on the board You couldn't have said it better Nationals and Braves Okay, interesting. Hey, Coleriggins. Come on. Come on.

Let's finish this out. Michael Lorenzen coming back. God, it's been such a nice summer in Kansas City. Don't end like this. A road trip. Nats Braves. Geez. Come on, Yule.

Carry them. And hey, some snaps for the Giants. I really don't think we should talk about it because they're eliminated. I think the conversation, and there may be more about this guy later, but Blake Snell has some crazy statistics going right now. And Matt Chapman, basically your fingerprints all over the Giants. All over.

Matt Chapman had a baby. Came back at Homer's first came back. Him and I were talking about life and fatherhood. So he's in a good... I said, dude, and this, I guess we got to mention this. I said, you're the pinnacle of your life right now. Oh, geez. He just signed a massive deal.

Oh, boy. You just had a baby. Everyone's healthy. You're hitting homers in the show. 7-1 B-Wore right now. It's all Matt Chapman right now. And he did say, yeah, man, secured my family's future,

and I never been more happy. And that is a real feeling. Second and B-Wore in the NL only behind Shohei Otani. Maddie Chapman. I'm still waiting on his. best offensive season, although he's never going to win the MVP because showe is going to win.

Yeah, you just needed show hey to not exist and we might be having that discussion. Trev, twin socks, because I am saying it in a half rude way. I can't imagine what innings 10 through 10 and 11 looks like in extras on Friday night between the 10 twins and the Red Sox

with both of those teams with different scuffling numbers that are horrifying. And then the Red Sox dropping it on them on the double dick Sunday that whatever you need to say, say it. I will say this. I mean, the twins just don't really have a recipe for success right now.

And that is, I guess, as blunt as you can have it. I mean, we got, you know, I commend Correa and Buxson for coming back. Clearly they're not 100%. Right. The pitching staff is running on fumes. I mean, we got Cole Irvin, Michael Tonkin, you know, throwing too many innings, basically. And I love those guys, but, you know, it's just the bullpen isn't what everyone

thought the bullpen was going to be. And a lot of that has to do with injuries, overuse, all these things. They're just, I don't know, man. Like if they sneak into the playoffs somehow, they don't really have a recipe to win, they can win a wild card series. If some, somehow magically they were able to line up Pablo and Bailey to throw two of the games and something happens. Like maybe they can win a three game set, but they don't have a recipe to win

a five game set, let alone a seven game set. That's kind of the truth, man. And you know I root for my twins and I'm hoping I'm wrong and hope they can use this as, I mean, they're not going to use this as bolt and board material. But it just doesn't, if I had to pick, that's actually a good question.

If I had to pick two, or I guess just pick one of the AAL Central teams, like tigers, Royals, twins? It's like win a series? I think I'm paying the Tigers. Is that recency bias?

I don't know, man. But it seems to me like, again, I don't think the twins have a real recipe. Royals are really scuffling to find an offensive identity now. Like Bobby Witt just has to completely put him on his back. But the tigers are able to kind of mix to match a little bit more and more contributions up and down the line of.

I don't know, man. All that being said, I just don't think the Twins are. Besides a tiebreaker, that's the only thing that they really have going for them. Yeah, man, it's crazy what it's turned into. Twins' last home run was by Willie Castro on September 17th. 11 and 22 over the last month. Yeah, there's a lot of bad stats, man. And yeah, again, if you missed it at the start,

and I'm saying this in a genuine fashion, like the Chicago White Sox, like the twins, tigers, and royals have all destroyed the White Sox this year. I think it's to the tune of like 11, 12 and 1. Like it's- Everyone has. Tigers are 9-1 against them. I mean, everyone is, I mean, Jake, they've only won 30-something game,

36. I know, but I guess my. my point is the Seattle Mariners, who are now two games back with, God, a game they blew last night that would have changed this whole conversation. You know, they've got to be saying, like, God, it would have been nice

if we had a couple more White Sox games. I mean, they get to play the A's and the Angels. I know those teams aren't White Sox level. No, they're not. The twins and, you know, there's four good teams in the AL Central. Four teams over 500 is only, you know. So I don't, I get it. Yeah.

This is as even as the schedule has ever been. I understand the extra, what is the extra six game, seven games against the white sucks means something. For sure, it does. But there's other teams you can look to and say, like, wow, that team sucks in that division too. Yeah, just one is the worst team never play this game. Ever play, yeah, ever play.

And it's getting worse and worse, the more we hear about it too. I think more importantly, it turns into that kind of coach speak of like, you know, the Mariners, hell, the Red Sox and the Rays, they could point to a lot of other things this season that could have changed how we're talking about them right now. Do you want to close with some Seattle thoughts?

I know you're highlighting them a lot. Seattle or later in the show. Please. I'm rooting for them. Okay. That's good. This is the recipe. You score eight runs the first two games you win.

Typically when they score five runs, they win every single game. The record is ridiculous when they score five runs. But the Rangers, you know, huge comeback in that last game like you're talking about. It's weird. I don't know why two games feels like such a big distance right now. I guess without the tiebreaker.

as well, I don't know, man. Without the tiebreaker's brutal. But I'm not ruling anything out because everyone's floundering. And, you know, sometimes I'm out here talking about the Tigers hug meter and how much I think that's controlling things. But if it was a playoff baseball game, I'd love to see how George Kirby, Louise Castillo, Logan Gilbert, Brian Wu, how much those guys could dictate things. 100%. Randy Rosa Rana.

I would love to see the Mariners get in and just disrupt the wildcard series. Randy Rosa Rana. That's exactly what they could do. The best to ever do it. Julio's going nut job and borderline saving a season, which honestly would frustrate me as a Mariners fan. I'm talking about that later.

I know, I know. Justin Turner. Now Raleigh. Red turn two. Yeah. And then I've got some Houston stuff. I want to highlight later, so I think we can save that. The Yankees, they're doing some good stuff.

Keep it shuffling. You got anything on my Yanks? They're rolling. They're rolling. Marcus Stroman, good comments. You might hear more about that later. Okay. Trev.

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And right now, you get 25% off your first order at Tommyjohn.com slash talking. 25% off Tommyjohn.com slash talking. Go see the site for the deets. Raj. Burn, Poppy, burn. The National League. Can we talk about the New York metropolitans? They take three out of four from the fightans, the Phillies.

They take game one, Sevy, letting it roar out. out there. Mark Vientos and Francisco Alvarez and Pete and Nimmo all Homer in that game. The Phillies take game two. Christopher Sanchez, seven foot three mows them down a lot of Philadelphia offense. But then the Mets come back. Luis Angeloucacunya. That's right. You know that last name. Sean Maniah seven innings, three earned. Trev tried to tell you. And then on Sunday night baseball. Brandon Nimmo into the seats for the two-one.

Kind of a grindy playoff type victory, Treb. The Mets take three out of four. Please, please make sure you listen to where they are in Trevor Plu's standings. Orion Kirkering. Nice. The Arizona

Diamondbacks, they take three out of four from Milwaukee. Algonquin for the good place. You know, maybe a little bit of a hangover as they were celebrating coming into this series. But Brandon fought seven innings, one earn run, two hits, 12Ks. That could be important come October. The D-backs grind out. Ketel Marte. Lordus Gariel Jr. is back, even though Pavan Smith has gone gangbusters in his place. Merrill Kelly five shutpeath. Has some weird cramping stuff going on? Interesting to see how that goes with the postseason.

Hey, brew crew salvages it on a crazy last game, 10 to 9. Reeser with 3 RBI. Willie Adomis adds another Millie to his future basement. Pat Murphy's saying, hey, I don't care. It's not now. We can't let this happen, but the snakes did it. Big for them. Braves take two out of three from the Marlins.

Looked like a potential house of horrors as they get down early in that first game and they lose it. Jake, how's your burger? But the Braves come back. Max Fried. Six innings, one-earned run. Olson, Urchella, and Solarol Homer. Oh, Gio the God.

Homer's in back-to-back games for the first time since 2022. And look who's back. Little Monster Ozzy Albies with one hit, but it was a home run in that final game. The Guardians played the St. Louis Cardinals, and the Cardinals take two out of three. Why not? They couldn't out.

Oh, Ben lively versus Kyle Gibson in that first game? Were you in the building, Trev? J. Ram went yard. Lane Thomas went yard. And then it's all Cardinals the rest of the way. Herrera. Andre Palante. That's done.

Seven innings. One hit. Good for him, man. The Padres swept the White Sox. If you've heard about the White Sox this episode, you know. Fernando gets a walk-off in the first game. Joe Musgrove with one of his more dominant starts of the season. Sure.

Elias Diaz, remember when the Rockies didn't trade him? He played well in the second game. And then you, Darvish, breaking records for strikeouts. I love you, Darvish. Tatis and Pro Fargo Yard in that game. White Sox are not real. Speaking to Not Real, the Colorado Rockies, they lose two out of three to the Dodgers.

Dodgers win the bread games. Shohei Otani, if you haven't heard about what he's doing, pretty good. It all got highlighted, honestly, in that last game, because Shohei hit the home run to tie it, and then Muki walked it off after. No more need to play this game, Rockies. This was fun and all. Ryan McMahon's fifth straight 20 homer season. Zeke Tovar's 44 doubles, you don't care.

Maybe we care next year. TPP. Young court. Hunter Goodman? Michael Toglia? Shut up. Victor Vodnik. Cubs take three out of four from the Nats as they get eliminated.

Jameson. Jameson Williams. Jameson Tyone. Nice start. Didn't start Jameson Williams this weekend? Shoda was good. Pirates and Reds played. Reds won two out of three, but they fired their manager.

That's what happened in the National League. A lot happened in the National League. It was juicy. I didn't realize. Yeah. Tell me you have the standings. I do have the standings. We are going to start out east

with the Philadelphia Phillies are 92 and 64. They have clinched to playoffs the magic number is two for the division. So they could have done that. Last night, they just would have beat the Mets, but they couldn't do that, could not celebrate at City Field. Mets five games back in the division, 87 and 69,

Braves 85 and 71. Nationals, they have issues of their own. Can't leave when you're on a heater. Everyone knows that. Miami can't talk about them either. Milwaukee has clinched the division. It's the pet. Murph Tober, I think we're selling shirts. Oh, yeah, it's Merthober, baby.

89 and 67 for them, and then the rest of the division has a skull and crossbone. I cannot read the standings, although the Cubs are over 500, 80, and 76. out west the Dodgers have not clinched the division yet Padre is sitting three games behind them with six left to play. 93 and 63 for the Dodgers. They have the best record in all the baseball. Padres 90 win seasons for the first time since like 1800.

I don't know. It's a long time ago. 90 and 66 for them. The Diamondbacks 87 and 69 and then the Giants in Colorado have skull and crossbones in the wild card. Not really much to talk about. Padres have the top wild card.

Mets in Arizona, 87 and 69, each sharing the second and third spot. And then it's the Braves. Two games out with a three game set starting tomorrow against the Mets to determine, well, in the standings, that has a lot to do with it. But also the tiebreaker, the winner of that series will have the tiebreaker as they've five and five against each other. So it's coming down to... This is exactly what we wanted.

I wish the Braves would have won last... The first game in Miami, I wish they would have swept them, so it could have been one game. But here we are. Those are the standings in the National League. Thank you, Trevor. And yeah, if you're looking for

playoff baseball this week, you can find it because the Atlanta Braves... They've got two against the Mets. They have three. They have three. Are they doing a double header? Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.

Interesting. FanGraphs has that wrong. That's weird. Go check that out because the Braves, they can win the season series against the New York Mets. Again, there's go look. Just go check out this division's history and go check out how Braves dominated

this division has, truly been going back to the early 90s. It's, it's, it's, it's kind of absurd. Um, and these Mets that just feel like they can't be stopped. Um, cannot be stopped. Oh my God. Um, a lot of stuff going on with them too, this entire year. I mean, I don't know when it was.

Maybe it was like a week ago, two weeks ago. I said, I think the Mets are going to be the team on the outside looking in. I don't, I don't feel that way. more because they my um what i look at in teams and i don't think this is like crazy um you know insightful but you know i like i like a team that can have many different ways to win a ball game and obviously any team can win a ball game in different ways but i'm talking about a team that does it kind of consistently finding ways to win whether that is you know you're starting pitchers you have some stoppers out that they can go do it you're back into your bullpen can win you baseball

games, timely hitting defense, all these things. The Mets have it all. They have the vibe too, man. Like what a freaking, you got a four game set against Philly. You just played them two series ago. Philly wins that one. They walk off. I think it was the last game to win the series. You go, you're back at home. You get four games against the team. They can clinch the division in your own building and celebrate in your building, spang champagne for the division title. Instead, you win three or four. You don't let them do that. You keep the lead in the wild car. Like, things are, it is awesome right now to watch the Mets play baseball. Like the emotion that's coming out of them. Like, watching Brandon Nimmo, I think he, it was a Jesse Winker. He dabbed

in front of after hitting the Homer against Wheeler. Like, it is. They are riding high. We had, we had Pete Alonzo getting a freaking standing ovation because it might be his final home game. at City Field. Like things are just it's, they're, they're awesome to watch. And then you got like,

you got baby Acuna there playing freaking shortstop. He's only had how many games in the Big Leas, 15 games in the big leagues. He's right in the thick of everything and freaking crushing it, dude.

Looking like he belongs there. He's looking like a freaking a guy that's been playing the Big Leas for years, dude. Like nothing phases him. Like he expects to be. there. It's, I was wrong about the Mets. He was very wrong about the Mets. Trev, baseball has a little magic to it. It's part of the reason I think we love it so much.

You mentioned Baby Acuna playing shortstop and bawling out, by the way. Balling out. Like, like, not even balling up, but that simple. Who's up the middle with him? Who's at the middle with him? 34-year-old Jose Iglesias, the glove first shortstop, his whole, career that came out with a hit music single this summer and also is hitting 337 with a 381 on base in 840 OPS. His first game leading off in a 12-year career, he goes yard. Some stuff doesn't translate into analytics. And that's why we come at it.

I don't know, man. We talked about a lot of bad sauce in the American League. I mean, this grimace sauce or whatever is all over the Mets right now. It's unbelievable, and they are a team that I genuinely think you do not want to play come October. No, they have that feeling. Edwin Diaz, 10 outs in two games, back-to-back nights. I mean, something obviously he's never done before. I love Carlos Mendoza saying this is big boy time.

They've been careful with him, trying not to overuse him throughout the year. But it's time. And he gets the freaking job done. Six out save against the Phillies, mowing down hitters, going right through the teeth of that top of the lineup for the Phillies. It's, they got a little bit of everything. The only thing that scares me is it. looks like teams can kind of steal at will against Francisco Alvarez.

Like that's, I know Edwin Diaz was a lot to do with that last night, but Bryson Stott was just running. And people were going to say, oh, the Mets got lucky with that ball that hit off the bag. Bryson Stott steals third base. I think, I mean, Viento stops that ball. He's right there. I was not going into the outfield. Oh, I see what you're saying.

Okay. I like that. He was right there. People are making a big deal about that. like, oh, Betts got lucky. I don't, I don't think so. But I think that is a big deal that, like, you can just, Edwin Diaz does not hold runners on.

He's more concerned about striking you out, which is fine. A lot of high leverage relievers feel that way. Like, I'm going to throw my best pitch, worrying about the base runners as secondary. I have different thoughts on that. But if it works, it works. You just got to strike guys out. That's a little, it's got to be a little bit worrisome if you're a Mets fan. Like, hey, we're just going to get anybody into scoring position at any time.

because, you know, you don't care or you can. I don't really know. It's a little bit of Alvarez, a little bit of Diaz for being honest. I think Alvarez has like 57 stolen bases against a 14 caught stealing. Not a great percentage there. As a Yankee fan, I can comment. Yeah, it's a worrisome feeling. That's about it, though.

Right now that's none of their business. I mean, dude, I love Pete Alonzo's energy so much that the, umpires like telling them hey they're cheering for you and alonzo has no idea what's going on like that's so beautiful he's like aren't i hitting right now remember when everyone was people were going at pete for a little bit he's at 34 homers he's at an he's at a 127 ops plus his career is a 134 ops plus like pete he's where pete was right um he's kind of having a pete alonzo season heading into his free agency. Yeah, they, I mean, the Braves are,

it's just it's the Braves, Trevor. Like, they did this two years ago. The Mets had control of the division the whole year. And then the Braves snuck up on them in that last week, which lines up currently a familiar playoff series. It would be Padres Mets, which we did that. Remember the Musgrove Year game? The schedule is interesting.

And this is why I said that, you know, a couple weeks ago, I said I think the Mets will be the team on the outside looking in. A big portion of it was because they were playing seven against Philadelphia. I thought Philly was going to give them more of a run for their money. They handled Philly just fine. And taking three or four is huge. They are on the road. The last six games at the Braves, then at the Brewers.

And I know the Brewers kind of have everything cinched up. That's still a daunting task ahead. And it's funny because we talk about teams being able to control their own destiny. Mets control their own destiny. And so do the Braves. Yeah. It just went out. They're in the playoffs.

That's going to be, this is fun. Because they can get the time break. You're a Mets fan. You are having the time of your life right now. Like that's, that freaking statement. stadium was rocking this weekend, too. That's, they were showing out. Mets fans, you know, you got Jolly Olive as your king.

It's tough. But you guys were showing out. Phillies, yeah, I mean, hey, it is what it is. They're 100% in the postseason. They're 100% winning the East. Dodgers, Phillies, Brewers, as we figure out those one-twos could be interesting down the stretch. I do think just something,

even pocket for Phillies fans to feel okay about this. Their fifth starter stats are so bad. And they won't eat them. Exactly. The past eight starts, their fifth starters have a 14-14 ERA. I mean, that's conquisador era.

Jokes for me, I guess. I don't know, man. I'm not sure. That was over my head a little bit, but that was good. I got there. Let's see. That's some Mets.

Do you want to wrap up the Braves? I mean, again, it's a similar good bounce back after losing that first game. Again, they lose the first game to Miami. That is a place that has been a torture chamber. I think the Mets have struggled down there a lot in recent years. A team just playing ball to play ball at this point, they bounce back, and Albies is back, and he's only hitting righty. I think that's big for them.

Just the demeanor of the team, you know, getting your spark plug back. And they are lined up against the Mets. I believe it's Swellenbach, who Peter Moyland loves, and then it's Sala, then it's freed. So you got your horses going, man. Like, this is the time. Matt Olsen's look great. You talk about it. The time.

You talk about a team that, you know, I phrase it with the Mariners starting pitching. If the Braves get in, they've got, they have starters, they have a bullpen, they have a meaty part of their lineup. Where's my guy Matt Olson right now? Oh, four war season. Okay. Yeah, he's going to have 30 and 100. It's fine.

Was he 29 or did he, no, did he hit one? No, he's 29 homers, right? 29 homers. Yeah, let's get the OPS and the 8th will be good. 134 OPS plus, same as Pete. Hmm. Two different ways to skin a cat. I usually start with the tail.

Do you want any Diamondbacks, Brewers? You can't talk about that right now. What? What? Cats. Oh. Political. It's political.

Oh, really? Yeah. I guess I forgot about it. I've been so caught up in the P. Diddy stuff. I thought there was a cat involved there. A lot of oil. How far is he lived from you? I don't want to talk about any of this.

How far does he live from you? Pete Diddy doesn't live here. Get out of here. He's across town. He's from New York. But his house is in L.A. He does? That's where this is all going down, Pop.

Oh, man. I didn't know that. Okay. What about the time? I never went to a P. Diddy party. That's good. Me either. What about the DeBacks Brewers?

What about it? Yeah. No, I'm half with you. I mean, again, we could do this for every team right now, but like fought with the season he had. He just had a bad start. Massive bounce back for him. The Merrill Kelly cramp stuff is weird. Cite is back in bawling out what a season he's had.

His numbers are, I didn't know his numbers were that good. And if you're the Brewers, it's, where's that, that, that, Pat Murphy quote that was like, we are not letting off the gas. Let me tell you what we learned. We're not good enough after all we've been through and all the injuries and adversity that we face this year. We've all been through it and it's old.

We're not good enough to take our foot off the gas, Pat Murphy. Merrill Kelly's wondering if there is a cramped specialist out there. And I don't think there is. Maybe there is. I think it's just water. I think that's the cramp specialist. I'd have to assume bananas? Like, aren't they the cramp specialist?

Lucky's never cramped. That's what, uh, what's his name? Dr. Doolittle? No. Japanese guy played for the Blue Jays. He was Norikasaki. Yeah. That was the, you know, classic interview.

Was an all-time interview. Good defender. He gave a couple of those. Great defensive player. Electric. We got to keep it moving, Bob. Yeah, Trev. The only other thing is if you want to touch the Dodgers, great job.

Showhead, did we even talk about 50-50 with Showhead? We did that last episode. We did a whole Show-Hay segment. Thanks for being here. That's right. And people say we didn't talk enough about Showhead. Warehouse time. Yeah, whatever.

Padre's balling out. St. Louis eliminated. Guardians doing their thing. Do you want to do CJ Abrams? I feel like that's an interesting topic. That is an interesting topic, isn't it? Let's do it. And I will let you go because I think you are more allowed to talk about that than I am.

It's interesting. Okay. C.J. Abrams gets sent out, essentially. He's just going to work out at the practice facility for the last week or so. Can we talk about that? Is he just in timeout? Does he just have to do baseball drills all day? This is exactly why I think the Nationals messed this stuff.

I get it. And I do believe, and I haven't really reached out, but this can't be a one-off issue. Right. There's got to be, and this is all, I'm assuming this, people. I'm assuming that C.J. Abrams has, you know, maybe been caught out before. Some of the quotes they were coming out, you know,

David Martinez talked about like, I just want to make sure he's, like, we help him and doing all these things. if he has an issue like maybe he's going out too much and doing all these things then okay I still don't think you send him out like this and then have every single you know person that covers the game talking about

your franchise and C.J. Abrams. Obviously it's a big part of your future. So I think this should have been handled a little bit better more internally because the quotes by Rizzo, we're like, we're going to handle this internally. You didn't handle it internally. That's kind of my issue here. If this guy needs help and you wanted

to send a message, you could do that internally. You could have just phantom IEL'd him and said, and had a talk and said, you're not playing anymore and this is why, and then nobody kind of questions it and it does actually happen behind closed doors, it happens internally. What you did now, this is not.

It's not internally. Optioning him down, having that go across the feet, and he, is not handling it internally. The other point I want to make about this, and again, if it is like an issue, like if he's drinking too much or whatever it is, he needs to get some help

and get back, I understand that. I just don't like the way that the nationals handle it. If this is a one-off issue and he was just caught out before a day game, I think it's absolutely nuts to send him down. What precedent are you sending?

Because what if let's say next year Dylan Cruz or James Wood or CJ they're going off mind you CJ was an all-star this year say they're going off

and they're bat in 320 OPS and the nines and you see and somebody gets a picture of them out at the casino before a day game are you sending him down because you set the precedent now anybody that's out

doesn't matter what they're doing Like, you set the precedent. Right. So this is a one-off thing. I completely think it's ridiculous that they did it. Because, look, it's a... And people are going to say, you're a professional, you can't be going out before a day game.

Let me tell you something. It happens. It's a hundred and sixty-two game season. In fact, there have been many of times where your favorite player, you know, back in the day, probably told someone, go out tonight. Don't come back until the sun comes up.

You need a reset or something like that. This happens, people. It's not a great look. I know that. Sitting at a roulette table at 8 in the morning before a day game, not a good look. Would I have done it? Probably not.

But like it happens. So we need, that's why I tweeted out. There's more to this story. Like it can't just be a one-off thing. This is a one-off thing. What are we doing here? We like sometimes idolize guys doing this. Mike Napoli, there's a story about him not coming.

He was on a heater. Terry Francona, like, they don't know where this guy all these things were going on. And that's like a story we laugh about. So it's, I don't know, man. I just want to know more about it. And if he does need help,

I hope he gets help, all these good things. I think he has a really promising career ahead of them. The one thing, I guess my blanket statement would be you didn't handle it behind closed doors. You mean, this is everywhere. And I don't think that's how you should conduct yourself,

even if you want to send a message or other ways to send a message. Yeah. I don't think this is a one-off thing. And again, I'm already starting to guess, so that's where it gets into cloudy territory. I do think this would have had to become public somehow, like between, like you kind of can't Phantom I.L. Anymore.

Like the- You can. You can. It happens all the time still. For young, healthy C.J. Abrams, I don't know. I don't know. Or a workout instance. Right, but if C.J. Abrams says it wasn't a workout incident, then things get loud again.

So I think this was going to come out in some way. So I'm not, I do wonder the dynamic how they had to handle it. And you're right. Like, you know, Dylan Cruz is at the Olivia Rodriguez concert next year and he's out till 5 a.m. Just getting the third pop star in there. The president of it is interesting that I feel like this had to be a discussion. before. Even this is dumb, but on our Instagram, someone put out like a very detailed post like, yeah, I was, I played cards with CJ Abram one night this summer till like 4 a.m. We had a good time. And it, you know,

it could be anything. That could have been AI just lying to me. That, yeah, you, uh... The simulation sucks. This simulation is bizarre. Um, that... Okay. Last thing for me. Here's what I'll say. This is corny old man, Jake kicking in. C.J. Abrams.

whatever's going on. Make this a weird anecdote. Don't make this the story. You know, let's look back in 10 years and be like, wait, he was sent down at the end of the season. Oh, yeah, it was that a casino thing. That was bizarre. This can be the end of the story.

And I hope it is. This is the epitome of performance trumps all. My good friend Anthony Swarzek used to say that. What's one of the legendary beer-drinking stories in the big leagues? Wade Boggs. He says 100 or something. I don't know. Nobody knows the number. And it's hilarious because why?

He's Hall of Famer. Because he's really good, dude. I love to play a bald. If you're crushing it, stuff like this, oh, hey, so-and-so was out till 8 in the morning, show to the park, got three knocks. That's awesome. He's a stud. When you're not crushing it

and you've been struggling since the All-Star break and all these things happen, then it's not funny. and it's not cool, but it's, it's so, I'm not saying this is like right or wrong, I'm just saying like it's very apparent in sports and pretty much in life. Performance Trump saw, this story is completely different.

If C.J. Abrams has an 850 OPS and playing good defense and all these things. It's just, it's a fact of life. That's all I got. I thought it was interesting, man. It is. I mean, the whole thing's, the whole thing. I got so many texts from people.

Did you see this? I'm talking about like current players. You see what happened with CJ? What is that about? I'll share one. Former player, so I can share it. Will Middbrook's text me. He said, man, thank God I wasn't playing for the nationalists during my career.

He was on those party Red Sox teams with Napoli. Yeah, it is crazy to think. You know, 162 games go back to spring training. And if your team's lucky enough to go to the postseason, you know, how many people listen in this show, if you were had your CJ Abrams has to stay in have you stayed in

this whole summer it's all by the way it's like he's off the field like does your job know what you do outside of the office they don't last thing one more thing I really there's so much good stuff on this Keith Hernandez

and Ron Darling talking about it like how funny was that Keith's like I could see 4 a.m. but 8 a.m. That was a Jeff Nels He's getting Trevor Ploof stuff. He's got a lot of good takes. Jeff Nelson, the former reliever, Mariners, Yankees.

He does some Yankees games. And he fully faded the fade. He was kind of with you. He's like, what are we doing here? Like, you know, back in the night, he's like 4 a.m. That used to be an early night for us. Like that, you know. And he basically came back to,

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Standout performances. Standout performances. Who stood out Trev. Looks like we got a little West Coast Two Step going here. I do want to let people know that I'm having some tech difficulties on my side. So I had a bunch of statistics up to back this up. I had to close some

web pages so this stream was good. So Beavers, can you get me Julio's numbers in September? It's in the nines for his OPS. That's who I want to talk about. Julio, you know, for the series was a monster on Friday, went three for five, two home runs, five runs driven

in. His September has been great. I kind of challenged him like, hey, like you have to be the guy. If the Mariners want to be in this, you have to be a centerpiece of the offense. You have to be an MVP type player, and he's done that. I believe it's six homers,

17 runs driven in for the month, 940 OPS, six stolen bases. You chalk that up and do that six times. You're an MVP. You're a 30-30 guy. You're driving in, you know, 100 runs. Like, you're doing what you need to do,

I don't know if it's going to be too little too late but Julio has really, really come on, especially in the month of September. Beavs are my numbers right? Your numbers are exactly right, Trev. 337 batting average for those people, 99 played appearances. Walks and strikeouts who wouldn't want those ratios to be better,

but... Yeah, but... But he's doing it. He's doing it. We just need this through a full season because the overall numbers are still not great. It's low sevens, OPS. It's just not.

enough for for Julio he's got to be better he has he has to be the answer for them offensively it's too difficult to just go find all I guess the Yankees did it uh maybe you can but when you have a guy like hulu who has the potential you just he's got to be the guy throughout the season they should this Mariners team should not be in this position Jake they should not be two games out they should be firmly entrenched in the wild card they have to figure the offense out obviously we've talked about that a million times. Julio's got to be the guy. He's been it in September.

Even if he go back through August and September, the numbers aren't as good, but he's played pretty dang good throughout that time. So I'm giving it to Julio. If he could, I mean, six games left, go off, get your team into the playoffs.

No one will remember the start of your season. Yeah, I want to see how the story ends because, man, if they somehow get in, I've already done it. and Julio's hot and Randy's the best ever and Justin Turner, like... Justin Turner, big two-run Homer.

It could change the whole story where last year, remember how bad the Texas Rangers were down the stretch? And then they stumbled in and they won it. And like the Mariners, it felt like they came up just short. Like, they could have been the Texas Rangers. And now it just feels like the stars are aligning for them to be just short.

short again and I if you're a manners fan you just have to be kicking like if Julio finishes like this it's like we couldn't get one more week like one more week I don't know maybe it's wrong and maybe they'll get in and maybe it'll be a beautiful

thing but I love that he had a great series on Saturday I mentioned this Friday again Saturday he went four for six with a home or four runs driven in so like he's he's there he's found it if he can bring him to the postseason no one will remember your April your May or June It's true.

Unless you don't make it. Trev, A.O. West episode, it's always been. Summer's over. It's the first day of fall. Week of playoff baseball. Is it really? Yeah, I think so. That makes sense.

Okay. Felt it in the air this morning. We're going to be doing some playoff live streams soon. Know who I see every October. Like clockwork? Yeah, I do. Yordon Alvarez. It's time to talk about him again.

He had a massive weekend, you know, basic stuff for him. He did have to leave with a little knee thing Sunday, but he's Yordaun. He'll be there. Four for five, double homer, sure, whatever you want. There was a stat that popped up, and I thought it was interesting. Treve, we didn't talk a ton of show hey today as he's chasing whatever he's chasing today. 55, 55. He's 53-55, I believe right now.

Get 60. Who cares? Judge, having a historic season of his own right, he has 55 homers, no player, has landed on 55 for a season. It's either more or less. Really? Yeah, no one's landed at 55. Kind of a fun tidbit. Oh, and dude, did you know Otani's D.H in Judge plays the field?

Did a silly Judge Otani tweet? Regretted that all weekend. Big time mute. Who got you? Nobody. It was just me. I was being, I was saying that, because O'Tonnie was going to catch Judge in the homers. He was one behind him.

And Judge stretched it out to go two ahead. And I joke that Judge was 40 steals behind O'Tonnie. And all the Yankees people were like, oh, Yankees fans got it. Yeah, Yankee fans were like, oh, yeah, dude, what about the OPS? What about Judge playing defense? I was like, I like, I really like Josh. I'm all about him. Hey, I think he's like minus six outs above average in Sunday.

Oh, snap. This is about Yordon Alvarez. Imagine me talking crap about Aaron Judge. Yordaun Alvarez, who has an argument to be one of the best hitters in the game. And here's a stat that popped up because I've seen other Shohay BS on other times I was complimenting him where people were like, oh, it was Europe from last episode or two episodes ago, Trev. you were like, Shohay's not a generational talent because you don't see this every generation.

This is, this is once. This is one time. And people were like, oh, really? Did you forget Barry Bonds existed? Oh gosh, bro. I don't understand that.

I don't understand that. I don't either, dude. Um, because he's, I'm not talking about anything other than the fact that Shohay hits at an elite level, an MVP level, and also pitch, pitches.

That's the big thing. At a Sigh young level. That's the big thing. If you forget that. He's a DH. I'm like, no, he's a fucking pitcher. People are nuts. And how much the Bonds crew

ignores the steroids in his 30s when Griffey was better than him up into that point? Everyone was doing it. Anyways. This stat popped up for Yordon Alvarez, who you'll see a lot of this October. He has a career 965 OPS

against lefties. That's pretty good. As far as, left-handed hitters go, it's second all-time to Barry Bonds. So of clean hitters, Jordon Alvers is the best left-on-left hitter of all time. And just a little at, I was going to say asteris, sorry, Houston. Kyle Tucker, ninth all time. So Kyle, you're just with the wrong team, Pop.

We're going to get you paid that 300-mill for. from Uncle Steve soon. But just a reminder, Yordon is here, Yordon is coming, so is Houston. Hmm. They are.

They are. They are. They are. Come on, Tiger. Trev. Standouts could have gone to. Alec Baum is back. James McCann.

What are his stats since he got hit in the nose or whatever? Ellie De La Cruz, breaking records, almost every game. This could have gotten. Brandon Fock, Garrett Cole went nine innings. Shoda.

But let's do the best segment of the show. Dirt Nasty's on Fuego. That means I'm on fire, baby. Like Waco. It's brought to you by Corona Extra, Trev. I can't wait to see who your Corona Extra player is. Like Corona on our screen looks delicious. That looks good right now.

It's got the little condensation on it. It's so cold. Nice. lime there. Okay. Okay. The Corona Extra Enfuego segment of the show. We're going to start off for the series in Cotel Marte, Fort Arizona. Went seven and for 14, a double three homers. My gosh. Six runs

driven in, five runs scored six walks in the four game set against Milwaukee. He set new career highs, Jake. 35 homers and 93 runs driven in. We'd like to see him get to a hundred. That's good old fashioned round numbers that I like. How about Tampa Bay, they're infielder, Jonathan Oranda. Four for 10. Three of those hits, Jake, went for homers.

Five runs driven in, four runs scored. He hit Homer in three straight games for the first time in his career. We like that. You mentioned Kyle Tucker that Abraham, Lincoln, M. F. does he have to pay taxes as a descendant of a Mount Rushmore president?

We don't know, probably. I think he does. Not in Texas. Not my country. Not in Texas. Texas is an interesting place. Shout out Texas. I watched Armageddon.

How about that? On the plane ride home. Great movie. It's not that great movie. It's a great movie, Trev. It's like a comic book. Steve Buscemi. Is Owen Wilson in it?

It's Ben Affleck? Yes. They're all in it, dude. Owen Wilson? Yeah. Pretty much the scaring. scariest environment you can imagine. Got it.

I don't even know what I'm talking about. I missed the first part of the movie. Whatever. It's not a bit of Kyle Tucker anyways. You know, missed some time this year. Right. It was a contusion on the shin, and they found out it was actually fractured.

Eight for 14 in the series against the Angels. A double two homers, three runs driven in, five walks. He became the 14th Astros players with back-to-back four-hit games and first since Michael Brantley, Dr. Smooth. First time recording. consecutive four-hit games,

and he continues to own the Angels in his career. 24 homers and 63 runs driven in against the Angels the most versus any opponent. He doesn't have more than 20 homers or 55 runs driven in against anyone else. He has a 9-99 OPS against the Angels. It's the third highest among teams. He's played five-plus games against. He's played the Angels 79 games.

323 played appearances, 99 OPS. Angels don't like facing contests. health worker. Don't blame them. For the week, Matt Olson, date your daughter, nine for 22, four homers, 11 runs driven in. Got to get hot, stay hot there against the Mets. And speaking of that, G. O'Shella also have the Braves, 11 for 28, three doubles, two homers, six runs driven in. He homered in consecutive games for the first time since 2022. How about that? And this is the list you want to be on. The two-week list, Fernando Tate's Jr. He's been going off. He's scary. I see postseason MVP in his future.

I really do. 16 for 47 in those two weeks, four double, six homers, 11 runs driven in, two stolen bases. How about Blake Snow? Probably should have given him

the Corona extra player of the F, but I'm going a different route here because he's been just absolutely phenomenal. Two weeks, you can talk two months. Three games started in these two weeks, 17 innings pitch, only seven hits,

only one earned run, 29Ks. in those 17 innings, 0.53R.A. He's 5 and 0 with a 1-2 and 114 strikeouts in his last 14 starts. It's not lost a start since April 19th. Probably should have been our Corona Extra Player of the Up. How about Kansas City reliever?

Daniel Lynch, the fourth that is. What century are you from, my friend? Four games pitched, eight and one-third innings pitched, two hits, zero earned runs, 12Ks. He's thrown 16 scoreless innings while allowing just 096 average and 280 OPS against since being recalled from AAA on August 12th, August 26, going to need this guy down the stretch

if you're the Royals. Go Daniel Lynch, go honestly, not in my book. Was he in your book? Yeah, I mean, former starter. I think he's coming short of rehab time that I didn't know he was doing that in the pen, happy for him. They need help down there. Jake, what goes good with a Corona Extra, especially an ice cold one like this,

rod in our screen? Like a good meal? A burger. How about Jake Burger? Our Corona Extra player of the Epp for the week, went seven for 22, a double, three homers, seven runs driven in, four runs score, two walks for the 1.1 OPS.

he recorded his second consecutive 20 homer 20 double season he's the first marlin to record a 20 homer 20 double season since horay slayer in 2023 i was looking at his numbers thought they were a little bit better but he said a bunch of homers this year his name's jake which i love and burger it went with the episode i went with it people congratulations Jake Berger, you're the Corona Extra player of the app. Congrats to all the Jakes. Jake Berger was traded for Jake. I like a swing too.

It's a ridiculous swing. There's pop. There's pop. Might have to look more into first base D.H. With Jake Burr, that's none of our business. Corona extra, go get yourself some. Get yours at order Corona.com. 21 plus, relax responsibly.

Corona extra beer. by Crown import Chicago, Illinois. It's Corona season. It's going to be a big Corona October. So get yourself some. Trev, great job. That could have went a lot of different ways. Unfortunately, here we have the worst segment of the show.

The IL update where, you know, some of these guys, that's it. That's it. Max Scherzer says he's going to tune it up for next year. See you, Mad Max. Sunny Gray. See you, Sunny. Nice year. Jordan Hicks for the Giants.

Rob Reff Snyder. Big fan of his. He had a massive season for the Bow Sox. Devers, also. His shoulders kind of done for the year. Jake Cousins and Taylor Scott, two impact guys on two playoff bullpens. Let's see what happens there.

Returning from the IL, Lordus Geryl Jr. mentioned that. Albies mentioned that. Danny Colom from Trev's twins to the Orioles. He'll be pitching in October. Let's see. We've got Hunter Green back for the Reds,

finish it out. Jordan Westberg and Ramon Ureus for Baltimore, which may just segue us perfectly into starting everyone's week. T. Payne? Yes, I'm going to be

going. This is a little sad of award. Okay. So I'm going to be going with the Hold de Mayo Award. Number one, I'm kind of an interesting food guy. I'm not really like a texture guy, but I'm not a mayo guy. I'm a massive texture guy. I can do textures, but for some reason mayo doesn't do it for me. But I also like like things that mayo is in. Like I'll mix a tuna sandwich. Obviously put mayo with the tuna. I'll eat spicy tuna rolls. Those typically have mayo, although the good ones kind of don't.

You get too much mayo, I'm not into it. I know mayo is just eggs and oil and salt, right? I think that's it. Just whip it up. Is there something else in mayo? Sure. I like all those things individually. Put it together.

I'm just not a big fan. But chefs love mayo. They really, really do. Don't love that. Anyways, my award gets a little sad because this is more of like a human side of the game award. Kobe Mayo of the Baltimore Orioles, he ended up getting sent down for the second time this season.

Things just haven't gone great for him. 17 games played, 46 played appearances, 098 average, OPS 293. It hasn't been there. Beavs just put something. Manage is made by emulsifying eggs, oil and some type of acid, which is vinegar or lemon juice. I like all those things. Put together, I don't know why I don't like it.

Whatever. It is what it is. So he came up because there's some injuries and he was going to help. He was one of those guys in Norfolk. We talk about the Orioles and the baby birds and all these guys coming up and they're all going to be heroes and I can't believe they drafted so well and all these things. But this is a reminder that the big leagues is just different. Kobe Mayo gets sent down. Jackson Holiday now is.

getting pinch hit for or coming in late in the game or he's not starting games. Jordan Westberg is back. I think that's probably going to be the answer for them. He's had a rough go around as well. 169 batting average over 56 games this year. 517 OPS, 50 OPS plus. The thing I like about these guys though, I mean, they're so young. Jackson Holliday is 20. Kobe Mayo is 22. Their story is just starting to get written in the big leagues.

But they had good quotes about this. They got interviewed and, you know, Kobe Mayo says he was talking about how you have to earn it at the big league level. And he hadn't earned it. And he understands that. And it was weird for him, you know, getting pinch hit for. He goes, you know, typically when I'm in AAA, like, I'm going to be hitting no matter what. Get to the big leagues, it's not that way. It's about winning.

Jackson Holiday, you know, talked about Gunner Henderson pulling him aside and saying, hey, look, man, like this happens. This is the beginning of your career. You're going to get pinch hit for. You're going to get people coming in to defensive or place you like this. It's all about winning at the big league level. And I think sometimes guys will get to the big leagues having nothing but success in their big league or their baseball career from the time they're in Little League all the way to the big leagues. There's a lot of guys that come up who have never struggled at any point, you know, to a certain extent in baseball. They get to the big leagues and it's so different. I think so many times we just forget that and we just expect these guys,

especially in today's game, where we're seeing a guy like Jackson Truro and Jackson, Merrill and Paul Skeens come up and they're just dominating. Those guys are like the exception, dude. Like they're not the rule. That's not what you should expect. Are you happy when it happens? Yes. Are you rooting for these guys to have some. success, yes, but most of the time you're going to come up and you're just going to get punched in the face, dude. It's very difficult. So I don't know. I just felt like when I saw Code Mayo got sent down, I saw some of the quotes. You know, I mentioned Jackson Holiday. Hey, what's going on? Is he going to play for the Orioles in the postseason? I wanted to touch back in and just

kind of remind everyone that these guys are human. It's very difficult. It's probably the first time they struggled. And both of them are handling it very, very well. well. On the Orioles side of the things, like I said, you get Jordan Westberg back. That's good for you. You got some veterans in there that are actually playing pretty dang good. Emmanuel Rivera, 28 years old. He's got 780 OPS. He's going to start, he's playing. Like, he's going to play because he's producing. And I think, you know, when you see that, it's going to light a fire on these guys. Like Jackson Holiday is going to go into this offseason. I don't know what's going to have. Maybe he becomes a postseason here. I don't know people.

but it's going to lie to fire him in the off season. Both these guys are going to be really, really good big leaguers. I like the attitude. I just wanted to mention it. I don't know. It felt like it was something that we don't highlight a lot about the human element of the game and sometimes how difficult it is. So hold de Mayo.

He's probably not going to play anymore this year at the big league level. But next year, he's a guy. Trev, you're right. We do talk about the outliers too much. Jackson Merrill has become a highlight of this program, and Jackson Churillo lately has become a highlight of this program. There are three position players who made their debut this year, so not necessarily rookies, but guys who debuted this year.

There are three guys with over one and a half B-war position players. Wyatt Langford, Maryland Churiel. Three, one and a half. That's not. you know, it's not a crazy season. Pitching-wise, there were, there's six, six guys, or excuse me, there's four guys over two B-War. Four guys, one of them Shoda, who, like, kind of illegal.

Otherwise, it's skeins to bias Myers. Also kind of illegal, just Brewer's devil magic. And then Cade Smith, which is reliever, Guardian's devil magic. That's why when you come into the season and you have a lot of young guys on your board, it's a daunting thing a little bit because it's hard to be that good and that young. And again, this isn't just pure rookies because, like, Austin Wells has been really good for the Yankees. Even Cowser not listed on this. But yeah, man, it's a tough game.

And like you said, Emmanuel Rivera, who has been a big leaguer and a round, kind of known for his glove. but if he's playing and hitting, he's going to play. Ramon Urius has a gold glove in his bag. If he hits a little bit, guess what? He's going to play because he has a gold glove in his bag. He's been hitting. And that's where, dude, these Orioles lineups,

I'm starting to get excited because they've got a lot of pieces between the young guys you know, the young guys you don't know. Remember when they just picked up Eloy? Like what? They can do some lefty-righty stuff, but those Orioles lineups are going to be fun to see as they try to figure out their formula the rest of the way. Yeah, what happens when Mount Castle comes back?

There's a lot of things going on. It's going to be an interesting last week for the Orioles. I'm very curious to see their postseason. They kind of need Jordan Westberg to be good. They've missed him a lot. Trev, we didn't plan this, but that's why we're so goddamn good at it. I ran into a phrase that was called

Put Your Pride to the Side And it's that time of year You talked about the young bucks I'm going to talk about the old calves Marcus Stroman For my Yankees Put together a very nice Marcus Stroman season He basically played exactly to his baseball card

Where they are currently at with their rotation Marcus Trowman's been in the bullpen He had his first bullpen appearance, three innings and, you know, he's going to be on the postseason squad, and he might end up in a massive spot. You know, if your starter doesn't have it one day in the postseason, they're out and someone's got to go. And it could be him.

Justin Verlander for the Houston Astros has had some quotes come out where he's like, hey, man, I know I'm not pitching well. I know who I am, but I haven't been pitching well. I might have came back from my injury too fast. I know what these other guys were doing before I came back. It's that time of year, man.

And I was skeptical. I was watching, again, I think it was MLB Network, and Pedro was talking about Verlander, and he's like, it's one of those things where we joke about stuff and you never know where the real line is. But Pedro's like, Justin Verlander's my friend. He's like, Justin Verlander, if he doesn't have it,

he's going to step aside. And I was kind of listening to Pedro, like, I don't know, Pedro, Justin Verlander? Like, I've seen him every October just bring pain to basically anyone he's against. It's looking like it might be not with Justin Verlander. And I don't know, that's got to be an interesting conversation. Does he want to sit in the bullpen?

Is he just not on the roster? Like, it's that time of year that you talked about the young guys dealing with. with that, it's time to win playoff baseball games. And I would love to know every team, what are the conversations you're having? Because, like, I know on the Yankees right now, Alex Verdugo is getting kicked to the bench. And it's like, hey, sorry, dude. I know it's your free agent year. And he's actually been hitting a little bit lately.

But Dominguez kind of brings a fear factor and more speed and more power that it's pride to the side season. And Verlander and Stroman, two guys that should be proud for, obviously for different scales of careers to a degree. of Justin Verlander, inner circle, all-time starting five-time type of guy. Marcus Stroman with an incredible career in a pretty sick-ass basement. But like, it's that time of year, people. Whether you're young or older, whatever, you've got to win ball games.

And I'm excited to see who's doing that. I do love postseason roster watch. Do you bring the extra pitcher? Do you bring the extra position player? Are you pinch hitting a lot? Like, do you need all those relievers? What's going on? This is when baseball is at its best, dude.

The baseball postseason is electric. I'm excited. This is great. Every winning team has good players. They've got to sacrifice something. And it's that time of year, people. So watch baseball this week. I beg of you.

Watch the Braves and Mets tomorrow. Watch Mariners and He, Houston tonight. Go check out any Yale Central game, which I don't say that a lot. Uh, well, we're here, man. I'm excited. See my Rams last night? How about Matthew? Wow. Big day for L.A. yesterday. Juan Jennings.