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Episode Date: June 17, 2024

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You have a, Trevor Tooth is back. Father's Day. birthday weekend treff how we doing it was a big weekend it was a big weekend for me a lot of youth baseball in the morning and it's kind of some late nights uh hence the glasses

I don't think you guys want to see these eyes yeah yeah yeah get a shoda yeah okay okay um no I had a great weekend I went to dinner on Saturday night

with my family to a really nice Italian place ate till I couldn't eat anymore, which was nice. Liv, Drow, home. So, you know, I had a couple glasses of red, and then yesterday we had a nice little Father's Day get together. A bunch of the boys and put some Frisbee.

You know how we go in this neighborhood. Frisbee, some Modellos. That's how we do it, man. Do you throw a good disc? I do. I do. A lot of risk. When you go to an all-boys school for high school,

like you just, Frisbee, Hackysack. It just kind of comes with the territory, man. at lunchtime, what else you're going to do? Yeah, I mean, I, again, I think you misjudged that there's just a couple gap years between you and hacky-sac, but it kind of, it fell off. So I look at you with the coffee.

That's awesome. I will say, I've always been, I'm not good at throwing the disc, but man, we used, you know, we had an ultimate phase, and little poppy would go and get it. Because, I mean, my first step's just not, the same.

So I'm gone. See, we're not like a competitive frisbee. Right. You're doing like trick. Fisbee like, oh. Yeah. All right. We've lost everyone.

A lot of good ball this weekend. Trev, I mentioned my Yankees. A historic Sunday night performance allowing that many stolen bases against them. So that's exciting. Dodgers got the injury. going on. Fills with their first

tough week in a while. But Trey Turner comes back. And the Mets are the hottest team in baseball, obviously. So, Pat Hoburg, perfect game, Pat. Is baseball hot?

It's so hot. Let's get into it. It's Monday. You know what that means. Interleague Monday. You know what we just did, Seek? Let's just rip the Interleague right now. Kevin Gossman's hot. And because I said Kevin Gossman will start with his Orioles. The Orioles take two out of three from the Phillies.

Phillies, they took game one. Ranger Suarez and Kyle being Braddish in game one? Pump that into my veins. We're going extras. Each team scored in the 10th. We've got there reviews all over this series getting overturned. The Phillies, after. winning that first game in 11.

The Oreos take the final two. They knock Zach Wheeler around the park. Four home runs. You don't see that a lot as Corbin Burns. And Greyrod the night before on the other side. Get it done. Santander to Homer Day. Colton Couser, the Milkman.

Daddy. Orioles take two out of three. Yankees. Lose two out of three to the. the Boston Red Sox. They do the same. They won the first game. Luis Heel. Sure, Verdugo, revenge game. Things fall apart. Carlos Rodon gets knocked around. Jaron Duran stays hot. Tyler O'Neill. And then on the final game, 10 stolen bases? Uh, they kind of embarrassed the Yanks on the national stage, doing whatever they wanted. And a big week for Boston as they take down the Yanks and the Phillies.

Speaking of a big week, a big month, maybe a big year? In Seattle, the Mariners sweep the Texas Rangers. Oh, God. Luis Castillo, who currently has the worst whip of their starting pitchers, started off with six innings to earn runs. George Kirby says, I'll one up you with six innings zero earn runs. And then Logan Gilbert plays his trump card of eight-inning zero earn runs. The Mariners can throw the pill, and now that Mitch Garver's giving them some games,

Julio, grab the stretch, Luke Riley. Seattle is actually playing a great brand of baseball in the Texas Rangers. Half game ahead of Houston. We're getting the standings later where we'll talk about the Minnesota Twins, taking four games against the Oakland Athletics. Oakland Athletics, L-9 next to their column, Twins don't care because Carlos Correa and Royce Lewis Treff.

That's real. Austin Martin in the outfield just grabbing homers? Why not us? Minnesota, eh? Yeah, if they're against Oakland. The Blue Jays. Will this matter? They take two out of three against the Guardians.

Okay. Guardians joined the club of good teams who won the first game, but then lose the next couple. uh, IKF, Dalton Varshow Grand Slam, huge in that final game. Uh, Bouten Francis with four clean innings. That'll, that'll get it highlighted. Blue Jays win that final game, a one run game, seven to six. Uh, gets a little nervous late.

Brian Rokio's two-run Homer, but they hold serve. And hey, the Houston Astros, they take two out of three from Detroit. Uh, Detroit wins the middle game behind Jack Flaherty and Riley Green with two homers. Wenziel Perez and Colt Keith with four hits each. How's your future in Detroit? Outside of that, Hunter Brown, seven-shot. Ronel Blanco, seven-shut with our guy, Jose Altovae.

Houston, hold serve. And that's what happened in the American League. Like, you complimented the twins, and then you didn't compliment them. You took it away. You pick them up to put them down, you know? I like that. I like that. That's fine.

You've got the standings, right? Right? Yeah, because it's Monday. Obviously, I start in the East with the Yankees. First to 50. How do you like that? 50 and 24, although, you know, you mentioned. They lost two out of three in Fenway. But they are one and a half games up on the Baltimore Orioles.

Those birds are 47 and 24. The Red Sox, 37 and 35. Two games over 500, but 12 games back in the division. Toronto, 35 and 36 and Tampa Bay, 34 and 38. is this the year, we always say it, like one year, Tampa's not going to be good. I think this is it, Pop. We'll go out west because it's Monday. Seattle, wow, eight and a half game lead in that division, sitting at 43 and 31.

The Rangers are in second place. They're five games under 500, 33 and 38. The Astros, 33 and 39, and then these other two teams. My goodness. The Angels, 28 and 43. The A is 26 and 48. and then in the central, Cleveland, a commanding five game lead in the division, 44 and 25, the Royals who took two out of three from the Doyers, 41 and 32, my twins, 40 and 32,

and the Tigers, 34 and 37, and then the White Sox are just, are they even a real team? They are 19 and 54. And right now, Minnesota and Kansas City hold the last two wild card spots. Boston, three games back, Toronto, four and a half games back. So three teams in the AL Central in the playoffs. As we speak in those are the American League standings. The mighty AL Central. We always knew it was going to be that way.

We always say it. Orioles. Well, I was going to say Blue Jays and socks with some nice series wins lurking. Let's start out with the team that has been the first wild card for a while. the Baltimore Orioles. Trev, I complimented you last episode, and I said, I loved how you said it. The Orioles love where they're at right now.

The big bad wolf of the Yankees, they're stealing headlines. Well, meanwhile, the Orioles haven't been overachieving. They've just been achieving, and they sit today a game and a half back as they're about to play the New York Yankees. And they just took down the Phillies, almost swept them that Friday night.

Our guy Dalton noted, potential game of the year. We've got a rain delay. We've got a double review in the 10th inning of plays at the plate. The only bad news for the Orioles, Kyle Bradish leaves due to a sore elbow. UCL, he already missed two months with that, so you have to wonder what that means for the rest of his season.

Otherwise, I mean, if you're the birds, Greyrod gives you another big start. you get to Zach Wheeler, which teams just don't do that. That they are sitting, obviously they'd love to be in first place, but there's a little blood in the water, especially what happened with the Yankees last night,

that the baby birds are feeling good. Are they just going to run every single pitch? Is that the game plan? Wouldn't you? Yes. Did you see that, Trev? That was Little League shit. You spot the disadvantage,

spot the advantage. I don't know what I'm talking about, but then you take it. Nice. What book was that again? I don't know what I just said. You spot the disadvantage and you take it. That's Michael Scott. Spam it. Boom, boom, boom. It's like when you're in street fight and you have E-Honda and you just keep doing that thing. Yeah.

And you're like, bro, stop. Like, let's play the game for real. Then he won't stop and you lose. That's basically what happened last time. So anyways. Birds. This is where I think about the birds. Clearly we know. they're an incredible team. I just think that lineup is so difficult to navigate. You talked about Wheeler in that last game, them coming out and scoring early on him. But every time we look at,

you know, we go over our sheet, we're looking at the box scores, we're watching the highlights, we're watching the games, you just, it's almost like a different person every night. But there's always a group of them. Like Anthony Santander had a great series. So we see it from him. Colton Couser, we know he's, you know, really did it early on the season, but he's been consistent as can be. And then It's always like Gunner Henderson lead off Homer. Like they just do it up and down the dang lineup. And then you got the pitching performances. It's like this team's legit.

They want the season to end already. That's what I think. Like things are going so good in Baltimore. They just want to get to the playoffs and not have to worry about the last two months of the season because right where they're at right now is like, it's exactly where they need to be. Really, yeah, the first game, really fun.

The thing I think about that, rain delay. Hayes goes after the ball for Bohm in the 11th. I think it was over an hour rain delay, right? 71 minutes, if I had to guess. You read that probably. I just didn't listen. I think Hayes gets to that ball if it's in the regular meat of the game and he's in the swing of things. You get to go sit down for 71 minutes. You come back out. The route was just okay for me there. I mean, obviously, Bone put a great swing on it. You have to give credit

to him, but I think he gets to that ball. The Rangelays are so strange, man, especially when you get, you already played 10 innings. Then all of a sudden, sky opens up, you're like, shit. Brutal.

You wait around for an hour where you come back. You're just not the same. But good teams answer after a tough loss like that, and that's exactly what the Orioles did, man. I mean, they're, you look at the team batting statistics

and you see, you know, the Yankees doing it. You see the Dodgers doing it. Like, okay, that makes a lot of sense, you know, but the Orioles right behind him with a bunch of homegrown play. players is like the coolest thing in baseball. Yeah, I do think with the Braddish news,

we already had the Orioles on potential early starter trade watch. I think that's still happening, although we know they can just throw our guy Big Albert Suarez in there and they'll give you... Whenever they want. They'll give you a five shut. But yeah, that's some tough news for them. But the lineup for me, and I want to highlight,

couple pit. Jacob Webb in their bullpen. 35 games of 191. Like, you know, Jacob Webb not getting a ton of love on the national baseball TV shows. I mentioned last episode that Dirty Craig's been great. We just don't. We don't treat him that way, basically. And Corbyn Burns, now 15 starts a 214.

Good trade. Welcome to the AL East. Yeah, Joey Ortiz. Why'd you call him Dirty Craig? He's filthy. Okay. He's always big. Like, okay, these are like dirty, isn't it?

Like, nasty as a picture. Guys with 120 OPS pluses on the Orioles, that means you're a 20% better hitter than everyone else in the league. Rushman, Mountcastle, Gunner, Westberg, Kouser, Santander, Ryan O'Hern. So, yeah, seven guys that are in a way 20% better than your average big league hitter. They're here.

Excite to see them play the Yankees, especially after the Yankees got a little slice of humble pie from the Red Sox, and we probably segue into that. But also, Phillies, they lose to the Red Sox and the Orioles. Tough little ALE East stretch.

But Trey Turner, a.k.a. old Bobby Witt, comes back tonight. So I think the Phillies are okay. I like that. Well, look, I mean, I think if you're talking about the Phillies, you talked about how they got off to that fast start, and it was because they played a bunch of sub-500 teams.

They're obviously a very good baseball team, but I think people who were saying that, and we were like, hey, just relax. Like, they're playing their schedule. Then you face a couple good teams and you lose a series. I think that's a conversation. They got to continue to go do it. Obviously, losing Rio Muto for a while stinks,

and getting trade back will help, all that good stuff. They're a great ball team. The Orioles. One last note on them. As consistent as consistent could be 17 and 9 in April, 17 and 9 in May for a 6.54 winning percentage. They're actually up on that right now.

11 and 5 in June for a 688. Sure. Okay. Summer's here. The boys are bopping. And the boys were bopping at Fenway Pack this weekend. Sox kid. First time the Yanks. They were.

and socks have teed it up this weekend. And, yeah, I laid it out. Luis Heel, one of his lesser starts of the year, which is five innings one earned still. So didn't have control of his stuff, really. Verdugo gets the redemption Homer against his team, and that kind of sends the Yankees loopy because he's one of the energizer bunnies of their team.

But the rest of the way, it was a lot of redside. They got to Rodon. They more or less get to Stroman. And I guess here's what I'll tell you from Yankee land. A couple of the Yankees team questions are some of the veterans in the infield who haven't been contributing. Well, you got rid of one of them.

Rizzo DJ Glaber. What do we get rid of? Rizzles hurt, right? Yeah, Rizzo gets hurt in that last game. So I don't think we've gotten an update yet, but lower right, lower right arm. Little collision at the plate. Collision first base.

First base. But the Yankees bullpen, Yankees bullpen got out to a great numerical start, but didn't feel right. And now the past month or so, the Yankees bullpen has been not so hot. So the bullpen is one thing. And then...

The running game, Trevin, you know how Jimmy, when he gets into the numbers, but this is one of the more golden things he's dug up. Caught stealings get accredited to catchers when it's basically pickoff plays. And the Yankees have been really good at this this year. That their catchers caught stealing numbers look pretty good on paper. I think they're like 15. for 52 on the year. I don't know.

We were deep in it. But I think out of those 52 and there's been 15 caught stealings, I think only two of them are true like throughout a one runner at second base. Like if you want to run on the Yankees catchers and starting pitchers, you can. And Alex Cora and the Red Sox on Sunday night baseball

showed that in a brutal way. In a brutal way. It looked like a bad JV baseball game. Sometimes it's as easy as a math equation. You know, you look at Trevino. His average pop time is 208. It's the second percentile in the league. You got a guy Marcus Stroman who's probably, you know,

one three or one four to the plate. And you say, okay, can I get there before that happens? And that's exactly what they're doing. So Trevino, I mean, seems to me like, you know, obviously prioritizing framing match. tricks. I know a lot of guys get down on the knee and do all that, but that also contributes to the lack of pop time as well. I mean, the arm is not the strongest, but they have to do something to fix that. They're going to continue. Teams are going to continue to do that. I guess for me, it's a lot of the times it's on the pitchers. So, like, they have to do a better job. You're going to have to see more pickoffs. You're going to have to see more slide steps or at least a hybrid. You can't just give a full leg kick the entire. time. Some guys don't care about it too. That's the problem though. Because I think nowadays in baseball, a lot of guys are saying, well, I'd rather have my full leg kick because I think I could strike

the guy. I don't care if that guy gets a second base, which to me is ridiculous because, hey, keep him out of scoring position. Am I the old guy in the room now where I'm just like, hey, it's probably a good idea to keep them off second base? No, you want to know where I felt like I had an epiphany. Great word. We've talked about contact and striking out and like, you know, part of the concern about the Yankees bullpen

right now is that they don't have a lot of strikeout guys. They've got a lot of sinker ballers that hey, you know, that can be great and you can have a quick inning or a quick double play ball. Or if you have three balls, fine holes, you can be about to blow a game.

That I was just laughing that there was a stretch in baseball where it was like the biggest thing we valued from pitchers was strikeouts because it was like if you strike guys out you completely control the scenario and strikeouts are still king but you know we're hitting wise we pretended to not care we said oh a strikeout's just an out on one side of the ball a strikeout is more important

but we pretended on the other side that it was not and that's so dumb we are so dumb there's a lot of things that have gone sideways a little bit I mean you feel like a dinosaur if you talk about a two strike approach but it's like when you get actually talking to baseball players and you're talking to hitters like dude yeah

like you need to have a couple clubs in the bag you got to be able to protect but I don't even know how we got here but you're right like a lot of things are going I think because of like the emphasis on stolen bases, I think a lot of like, hey, let's put the ball in play and like, let's see some good things happen. Plus,

as I mentioned in my bunt rant that people are like all over. Like, I don't know how much for priority defenses anymore. You know, like you're getting, like especially infield defense. I feel like outfield defense became a priority because we're trying to slug and do all these things,

but just simple plays. Like around baseball, you kind of see it. So, I mean, what's the pressure on the defense? It's always been a good thing. Lorenzo DiMalia from We Got Ice, who's a big Red Sox fan, listen to our Friday episode,

and I'll go through some of this again. The Red Sox are fifth in OPS. The Red Sox are seventh in starting pitching ERA, eighth in bullpenny R.A. That when you just look at the screenshot of the Red Sox, you'd think it's a very different conversation and then the buy-sell they're talking about on Sunday night baseball. And a big chunk of that is defensively,

which we, you know, we've talked about Raphaelah moving from shortstop to center fielder. I'll tell you what, like watching a little bit of what he was doing in center field, that looked like an athlete trying to figure it out. And he is shortstop. I don't know if you want that. Like that's a young ball player trying to learn on the fly that. currently on the Red Sox starting lineup, I don't know how many guys you can say

play really strong defense. Tyler O'Neill. Like, so I don't know. You in the right field, I think plays a good right field. I think he's doing well out there. Raphael is playing, I think, metrically is well regarded in center field.

He's an athlete. I mean, the kid's a stud athlete, but I think if you even watch some of the, this sounds so dushy, but like some of his footwork, Like it was an athlete playing center field. Sure. That's all you need, kind of. We needed to give the Red Sox some love here. We posed the question, like, what was the problem?

A lot of people came back to us on that episode. We're saying, well, you know, there's a bunch of injuries at the beginning of the season, especially within the infields you had guys playing out of position, kind of playing places they weren't comfortable with. And now we're seeing like a youth movement in Boston, which has got to be scary for the AL East. You got Hamilton at Shore. You got Raphaelian Center.

You got a Brau out there in right field. You got the starting pitching. I think this is something that we're going to look back and say, okay, they treaded water with these injuries the first, you know, a couple months of this season. I think this Boston team has a chance to go here in the second half. Yeah, the more they teed it up on Sunday night baseball, it was kind of, you know, first year new GM.

Who is it? It's a former Red Sox reliever. I don't want to see. Craig Breslo. Reslo. Yes. He's like Ivy guy. A Boston team that hasn't had success the past couple years.

That coming up on the deadline, I don't know, man. You have something. I don't know if you're going to make the playoffs. I don't know if you make the playoffs how big of a threat you are. But I don't think you could sell on this team. Like I think you got to get the good juice going in Boston

that if you punt on this team while they're the first team out of the wild card, at that fan base, they'll turn on you. I'm not saying like they believe this is the team, but they want to believe in anything. They've already given Heim time. That didn't work. Yeah.

Yes. I ran out of time. Big time. So, Brazil doesn't want to do that. I agree with it. I think they'll be careful buyers. What's interesting,

when you think about this market and all these teams that are like within striking distance, like what does that mean? Yeah. Usually when there's a bunch of buyers, that means the price goes up. So like are these teams

going to be willing to up the ante and say, all right, we'll give you this package because we want to be the team that gets the guy. I mean, it's going to be interesting, man.

Like, you know, crochet and these guys, from the white socks, they're asking price has got to be crazy, and they'll probably get it because there's so many teams in contention. It's going to be a funky summer, man. Fangraves has the socks with a 22% chance to make the playoffs. Hey, that's, you know, almost one out of four math guy, closer to one out of five. And another team with similar odds,

the Toronto Blue Jays, who they play six times in the next 10 games. The first time they're facing this year is this week. Blue Jays, Blue Jays and Red Sox. If one of them can kind of put their thumb down on the other, maybe that can control that a little bit. I think the other big one I want to talk about, because Toronto wins a nice series. Your twins were dominant against a team that's not so dominant.

But the Seattle Mariners storyline is like full-tilt, full-blown. These guys are here. These guys are fantastic at home. 27 and 12 at home. Eight and a half game lead in the AL West. This is, and the number that I thought, this one's half cool, 34 and 11 when they score first.

Great, Seattle. 17 and 5 against the AL West this year. So, not only are they holding serve, but they're holding serve in their division. They obviously have a team strength. we kind of, I feel like the Mariners made us fall in love with them a couple weeks ago. And since then, all they've done is win more. They haven't won the division since 0-1, Trev.

What were you doing in 01? Throwing the disc, khaki-sacking? Yeah. Yeah, soft porn in high school. Soft porn in high school? Yeah, exactly. At that time, I don't even know if there was anything like that. That was still like cable TV type stuff.

Internet was crazy. There was some stuff, but like you shouldn't be clicking at that. In 2000, 2001, it was just you had a home computer that was in the living room. Yeah. For all you young kids, think about that. You had a, it wasn't even a laptop. It's a huge computer. In the living room.

Yeah. Ours was in the kitchen. We know what you're using your computer for. Jake, why are you looking at pictures of Serena Williams? It's a great tennis player. Great tennis player. All time. What are we talking about again?

your mariners. I think I think a lot of people are happy for the Mariners on the national stage because they've gotten so close and it feels like it's kind of like

been ripped away from them at the end of the season or right at the beginning of the playoffs. Like they just, they've had it and then they haven't had it. And now the division's a little softer.

Like the Astros are, I don't know what, what is going on there. and the Rangers obviously you just sweep them the Rangers have been struggling to find their footing as well and the Mariners are taking advantage of it

and it seems like Seattle's kind of like understanding the assignment a little bit like the place was rocking over the weekend like the boys are feeling it we got Jolly Olive at 5 a.m. Pacific time sending us the whips of the Seattle Mariners starting pitchers

like Jolly we know you don't think we've talked about the starting pitching of the Seattle Mariners were waiting for the offense to get going and they've had some timely hitting and they've been doing it. I'm very curious to see. I think they're probably they're like one of the most interesting teams.

I would say that I think I'm most interested in to see what they do at the deadline. Who are they going to bring? I know you've talked about polar bear peak going over there. Like they need to add an impact bet. Similar to when they brought over like Luis Castillo, like a trade of that. magnitude. They need to go do that this year.

The fan base has showed up. They got the pitchers. They have the team. They have like the feeling of like, hey, we got to go this year. So I'm very curious to see what they do. I got to imagine it's going to be big. Yeah. Interested to see. Juan Soto to the Mariners.

Okay. Julio's been great the last 22 games or so. His numbers, his OPS Plus just got to league average. So I don't know. This guy, unfortunately, for whatever reason. I don't know if it's reps.

I don't know if it's weather, but he's gone off to a slow start every year. Seems like he's in gear. It feels like they've, you know, WMBA, they've survived their own storm. Like, Julio's going to start slow. Are we going to get enough help elsewhere? And I feel like their offense has hit a pivot point,

Seattle Storm, or do you not watch? I'm just, that was the whole thing. Okay. their offense hit a pivot point where it was like, hey, there's pressure on us to score because if we don't score, we don't win. I think that's flipped to like, hey, if we put one or two up, we still got a really good chance to win, that now I think the offense is just playing a little looser that, yeah, I hope they make the move. Because, again, haven't won the division since 01.

I got some numbers coming for you. He knows like this. Okay. Okay. We talk about Julio progressively getting better as the season goes on. 642 in April, OPS, 768, 778 in June. Then he goes 850, 990, 934 as you go on through the months. In June, 817 OPS, so he's going.

He's kind of on trend with what he usually does. That alone right there, if you're getting Hulio, Julio going is like enough, I think. And I hope, but I hope they don't think of it that way. You know, a lot of these teams, like, if we just get our guys going, that's like making a mid-season acquisition. No, it's not. No, it's not.

No, it's not. Like, he's going to get going, and then you add to that as well. That's an acquisition. Go Julio go. I want to see him go off, man. He's fun. You should be in a front office with that kind of analysis. Me and you together.

know it's in addition adding someone. You know they don't think of it that way, dude. It's ridiculous. Don't get me started on the way teams are thinking about the game of baseball right now. I can't. Corey Seeger hitless against the Mariners this year. You. Is that real?

In the tech. The real statistic? O for 25. 25 plate appearances, excuse me. After 1.1-1ing against them last year. And the Rangers have the worst OPS since May 8th. a month and a half, the Texas Rangers that mauled their way to a World Series victory

have been the worst offense in baseball. Texas Rangers have a 676 team OPS, the Seattle Mariners of 667. But when you have Brian Wu with a 0.53, Logan Gilbert with a 0.92, Bryce Miller with a 0.98, George Kirby with a 1.01, and Luis Castillo, your worst whip pitcher

at a 1.14, you can do that. that. There you go, Jolly. Hope you're happy, Jolly. Gosh. Don't ever text me at 5 in the morning. He doesn't like that. Trev, again, like I said, I've got some twins love coming

later, so I'm kind of good on it, but you'll probably end up gushing. I just think Toronto, they, uh, again, they, they were facing the good central teams this week. They win a series against the Guardians, which a lot of teams haven't done this. There's a Gossman quote after his game that if

we don't pitch well, we don't win, which that's a shot fired to half the team. Well, then they woke up. Five runs the second game, seven runs in the third game. I mean, it's not like they don't know. They're like, oh, thanks, Kev. Yeah. Didn't know the offense was struggling, bro.

Thanks for pointing that one out to us. Do you any of those old twins teams have any shots fired? Brian Duncing, come off the mound and say, yeah, we're not scoring runs. I'm sure. There was, I'm telling you, man, a lot of behind the scene stuff goes on. Like, we saw like the McKenzie Gore and Nick Senzel thing in the dugout. Like, that happens way more often than his scene. Yeah. High T. One day we'll talk about, there's one in particular

that I'll allow. I need to get both the guys' permission. Okay. Put it this way. There was one point where I was like, all right, let's let this happen. Like, this needs to. It wasn't like, hey, break it up. All right. Yeah. Here we go. Let's fuck around and find out a little bit. Okay.

Okay. I'm excited for that. I did watch the end of Rennel Blanco. He was like, I mean, he threw no hit. Unhittable. Literally. Again. Well, he was walking everybody.

Alex Spragman had like this rough play they called an air. They were trying to let him go. And then all of a sudden they just took him out of the game because he was at like 93 pitches after seven. So I was curious to see if they were going to let him go. and they didn't. Trev, I also, I want to give you some snaps because now lame stream media

is starting to talk about it. Stephen Kwan with a couple good days at the office. $3.98. What did I do? I just mentioned that he was a good thing. You mentioned him last time. You were like, Stephen Kwan's in like 3.74. Is he chasing four?

So you get the credit in my book. Yes. And you know why, Trev? Because you're him. And hymns. And hymns. important. Hey, this is their first sentence and it might be mine.

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Can we talk some NL? Your sex life is important. It really is. And it's getting sexy in Queens. The Mets, what's dead may never die. I mean, they are from the Iron Islands at this point. Because they sweep the Padres.

Hey, I'm gonna Ron Burgundy a little. Go fuck yourself, San Diego. What are we doing? I just gave a speech how the Padres, it's finally happening. Here we go, they're separating themselves. No, they get swept by the Mets, they drop under 500, and Jumbo Dong, Jady Martinez. Welcome back, big fella.

What do you have, three homers in the first two games? Or no. He had the two homer game in that season. second one. He's walking it off for the first time in his life. The Mets are 5 and oh since the Grimmest City Connect jersey? That's that's Mets baseball in a nutshell. Um, Padres, I don't know. I think you guys are just as frustrated as I am. So, uh, the Braves. They take two out of three from the race. Sale and Charlie Morton, the old men get it done on the bump and some signs of life from the offense. Jared Kelnick.

from the lead-off spot with a homer. Austin Riley and Matt Olson. This is what we are asking for in Atlanta. They get that in the first two, but Jose Siri does not give a fuck in that final game as he homers. Brandon Lau with the big yacker as well as the race salvage the series in the Charlie Morton Bowl.

The Brewers take two out of three from the Reds, and that's obvious. The Reds, they win the first game. T.J. Friedel, J. Camer Candelarioreo. and Ellie De La Cruz, what a highlight reel. Trev's guy snoop a loop in the booth. But this is what happens. The Brewers win the games.

They win that second game after going opener to Bryce Wilson. Joey Ortiz getting talked about as generational Trev, Colin Reya, Willie Adomas, with the big home run. That the Brewers win the one-run game to win the series. And that's the NL Central. The Dodgers take two out of three from the Royals. The Royals continue to be in their rough stretch, although Yamamoto, or excuse me, Lugo dropped it and Melendez with a big home run.

But speaking of dropping two, Yamamoto and Muki Betts. Dodgers are really getting hit with the injury bug. Shohay Otani says, no worries. I'll homer twice on the final game to get it done. Fun young pitchers in that first one. Riggins and Gavin Stone. Dodgers, they take two out of three. Angels, take two out of three from the Giants.

Giants, baby, what is we doing? At home? It is me doing. Well, tell you what, Tyler Anderson just keeps doing it. He's going to be on a different team soon, 5.1-1-earned-run. Mickey Mouse Moniac with a couple big games, and Logan, Oh, Hoppy. East Coast kid doing it big on the West Coast. Giants, they roll them on the final game.

Everyone contributed. Is it Elliot Ramos? I can't say it right. But every game he has a good one. So Cubs lose another series. My God, to the wild cardinals, St. Louis Cardinals. They are 500. Cardinals fans in the comments, happy we talked about Michael's out-dueling skeins.

Kyle Gibson, you might hear? hear more about him later people seven shut piece uh showed him and aga was electric in the game the cubbies won and i feel like that's what they've been saying a lot but they lose again in their numbers there's some cubs stats 10 and 21 in their last 31 yikes diamondbacks they take two out of three from the white socks again the easy part of their schedule and they've done well but is it enough jordan montgomery Pitches five clean innings for them. His first start without any earned runs. Will that matter?

Jock goes off in a couple of these games. Christian Walker, his contract goes up by the day. Marlins and Nats played. The Nats swept him. Trev watched every inning of this game. He'll tell you about McKenzie Gore, the fight in the dugout. Young Jacob Young goes yard. Good for the Speedster.

And then the Pirates and Rockies game, which me and BBD were at. Pirates take two out of three. They take the bread games. And that's what happened in the nationally. No one can do it like you do it. No one loves you like I love you. Do you have the standings? Shaggy?

I do. I do. I have the standings up. And I know you want to hear them. And because it's Monday, I will start in the East. Philadelphia, 47 and 24, the eight game lead over the Atlanta Braves, who are 38 and 31. The Nationals. one game under 500. We're such a Nationals pod.

35 and 36. The Mets, 33 and 37 and the Marlins, 23 and 48. I will move on to the West where the Dodgers sit at top the division at 44 and 29. The only team that's over 500, the Padres, as you mentioned, dipped under that 500 mark. They're 37 and 38. Your snakes, 35 and 37, tied with the Giants who are also 35 and 37. and then the Rockies, 25 and 46.

Gotcha. The Central Milwaukee continues to do their thing. 42 and 29, they have a six and a half game lead over the Cardinals who are 35 and 35. Gibby is ballin, obviously. Cincinnati, 34 and 37, wake up. Pirates, 34 and 37, you're kind of playing to what I think you are, so just keep doing what you're doing. And the Cubs, what is we do? and baby at the bottom of the division

34 and 38 but everybody's right in the mix Mets one and a half games out of the last wild card cubbies one and a half games out pirates reds giants Arizona all within one and you know who has

the last wild card spot right now those gnats those fighting gnats in the dugout choking each other maybe that was just for fun we don't know those are the standings Those are the standings As yeah

Them and Them The Padres and the Nats Technically half tied For the last wildcard spot With the Padres on a three game loser On the YouTube We got the Nats just

You know Rubbing elbows in the dugout I'm so curious Like what was that about I saw the play There's more to this story That's what I got out of it.

Sanzel, even the announcer, though, was on Sanzel about the play. It's a chopper down the third baseline, like a long throw, guy's safe. There's no bobble. There's no air. But the announcer said, why did you, like, lollipop the throwover? I guess maybe, did he? Like, I don't really, I'm not really familiar with Nick Senzel's max arm strength. Right.

But it looked like he made a pretty routine play. The guy was safe. And then all of a sudden, we get a, you know, a little fist, cuffs down there in the dugout. The boys are hot. You know, when DJ Hertz is going six innings, 13 punches, you know? Hey, Nats fans.

Yeah, what I was told, Senzel didn't charge it hard enough. If you guys have some juice for us. If a fucking pitcher did that to me, because I didn't charge it hard enough. I'm playing a hop. A top spin chopper. I'm playing it back. Sorry, the guy was safe.

What do you want me to do, bro? It's a baseball play. A pitcher? You play once every five games. You're going to do that to me? I would lose my mind, man. But again, maybe there's more to the story that I just don't know about. More to the Nats story. Seven innings one earned for McKenzie Gore. DJ Hertz, I just mentioned six innings zero earn runs,

and Mitchell Parker six innings one run. It's the Marlins. But again, the Nats, this is a full-blown Nats pod now. If the NL is going to be muddy, muddy it up, Nats, muddy it up. Trev, I do think the biggest pieces of news for this season. Yamamoto and Muki. Muki takes one off the hand, fractured hand. Not expected to be season ending, but Mookie is going to be gone for quite a bit.

And Yamamoto at first we're told triceps and then we hear strained rotator cuff. which let's see what that means for this season. And it's going to be unfairly, it's going to be a big part of the Yamamoto storyline of how he plays out this contract because that was, that's a one-of-one at this point that people are going to track his injuries very closely,

which is probably crazy unfair to him just because he was from another country and really good, he got a bag. But these are two big blows in Dodgerland, yet Trev, we talked about this a little bit before the show. You opened up the Dodgers current starting pitching rotation and I think you expected to see it be a lot thinner

than it was. Well, it's just because Bobby Miller's coming off the aisle at the perfect time. So they still have five legitimate starters there. I mean, obviously it hurts to lose Yamamoto, but you're still going to run out Miller, Glassnow, Paxton, Beuler, and Stone. You're still going to run those guys out.

That's a very, very good starting five. So I don't think that is where the problem lies here for the Dodgers. It's the Mookie. It's the Mooky. At top of the lineup, doing what he's done. You know, shortstop metrics are mixed on like his defense, but be able to be at the top of the lineup playing shortstop,

doing what he's doing offensively is obviously going to be missed. And we talk about the Dodgers lineup being top heavy. And now they lost one of the guys. Yeah. So they're a team that will be aggressive at the trade deadline. they already wanted to bring in a shortstop to get Mookiei off of there. I think they did that out of necessity putting him there. We saw what Gavin was doing during spring train. Do you remember that?

It was just really messy. He was making a lot of airs. It looked bad. So, all right, we'll put Mookie there. And that happened like this. But I think they've realized he's probably better suited to the second base. And if you can get a shortstop there, that's what they need. I don't know who that means.

If Willie Adamas isn't going, who's the shortstop out there that they can go get? I'm top of my head I don't know Paul DeYoung Yeah I don't I don't know I don't know what that market currently looks like Um The Giants have someone

So he's our fractured hand Which means six weeks Six to eight weeks Something like that yeah So it's June 17th So we're looking End of August Something like that

Okay I think they'll fring with that Like as much as it sucks to lose Mookie bets, if he can return end of August and you have him for a full September before the playoffs, I think

you can be okay. They put enough distance between themselves and the division, like they're going to make the playoffs. Get Mookiee healthy. Take your time. That's kind of my take on it. Philly's trade Edmundo Sosa

to your conference conference rivals. No. Um, yeah, I don't know. Just a quick peruse of shorts. I mean, Boba Chet was a hot name for a little bit and Toronto's still fighting. Yeah, he's interesting. He would look great there. This, uh, this is totally off the board and some people will probably just do a little Jake.

Uh, I don't know if Detroit ever hit a point where they just eat Javi's contract. Like, little Dodger juice. Could that lock Javier in? I don't know. Uh, Dodger fans like, uh, yeah. Yeah, I mean, nobody's excited about that. Probably Tiger fans. So, yeah, that was the toughest news out of the National League.

And then, Trev, I'm going to laugh a little bit because their next three series, Rockies, Halos, White So without them, we could look down and see Dodgers W-10 in a couple days. 100%. Are we going to do the Pat Hobert? stuff here or are we not going to do the Pat Hoburg stuff? So I mean, I'll ask you quick but like I feel like we don't have any

info yet. Agreed. There isn't like an update on like what happened. He's appealing and we don't even know what he's being accused of yet, right? So I think we need to peel the onion back a little bit. A couple weeks ago

we got wind of a story coming out. Didn't have specifics but little birdies were chirping that there was going to be a major umpire that that was that was what was said a major umpire i was like what does that even mean um a scandal was going to come out within 48 hours well 40 hours came and went nothing happened birdies were still chirping a little bit um and then all of a sudden we get hit pat hoberg gambling's you know um he gets suspended he is like the biggest umpire he's the best umpire in the game

statistically. And now he's going through this. I think initial reports were like nothing on his own games, but he did bet on some baseball. I don't know what that means. What does that mean for Pat? Does he get the same

deal that the players that we just caught gambling on the game? Does he get that type of punishment? I mean, Trev, you go pretty tough guy mode when you're like, you have to be so dumb as a player to do this. Like you get every spring training, you get the same speech,

and it gets hammered into your head. Umpires, bro. That's, you're the guys. You can't gamble on the game. So they knew about this in spring training. They were doing an investigation that was launched into spring training and finally they had enough evidence apparently.

And this is his quote. I'm appealing Major League Baseball's determination that I should be disciplined for violating the sports betting policies while the appeal is pending. It would not be appropriate to discuss the case. He just talks about, I love baseball so much. So then all this crap. So we really have nothing. It is a big story.

I think it's getting pushed to the side because of the lack of information. Once we get a little bit more of the details, I think we'll be talking about this much. much more, but, my goodness. I, uh, I don't know. I guess just initial sniff test. So Pat Hoburg's been calling games this year. They've known about this since spring training.

Hasn't he not been calling games? I think that was like the thing. Like, I feel like he's like been being punished for this. I thought, I think, I thought in the past article it said he had an umpired a game this year yet. Okay. I'm looking at the article right now. I, it feels pretty plain and simple.

Like what could be up in the air here? Like I guess what would come out that would make your opinion be like, okay, like this guy can, like if he has, if his two bets were two 10 team parlayes, would you be like, okay, like Pat, Pat had a couple backaries. I don't know, man.

You know? I don't. The thing about an umpire like him is he's done, a great job at calling balls and strikes where that's where you have the majority of your influence on the game, right? So they're graded out all the time. He's been the best. He's been the best. So like clearly not throwing games unless we go back to a few missed calls that are like blatant at a crazy time in a game. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. And like he, I honestly don't know what to think. If he, okay, I guess, if you're asking me, if he bet on games that he wasn't a part of, it seems like less of an indictment on him, but also he could be in caboots with whoever was calling the games.

You know, umpire, Freddie Ortiz has a bad back, so it's going to be a wide zone today. I don't know. Hit the under button? Under? Is that what we're doing? Over on strikeouts? I don't know.

I guess that's where I kind of wasn't ready to talk about it. First pitch strike. Right? They have that. Stuff like that could happen. That's the crazy part of all this. They've got it all. And those,

those, what do you? Conspicuous calls or non-conspicuous calls? You don't even try to use that word. Like a first pitch that's off the plate a little bit and you, ha, and you're just like, that's what I'm saying.

There are bets. First pitch strike bets. Boom. No one notices. Oh, Pat, with a bad call first. call the game. God, imagine if there was sicko layers to this, like all the umpires are betting on each other's games

and like the first pitch of the third inning. It's got to be a strike. You have to call it a strike. Ball bounces. Where was that? I don't know. I guess the easier one's ball, right? Because you can't call a pitch that bounces.

It's got to be down the dick. if a pitch is how many times we've seen a pitch down the middle they called a ball and like oh they miss that one it's like

hitter could swing though I don't know it's a lot harder to fix games a lot harder to fix games a lot harder to fix games I don't know I need more info we'd be bad at this

we would definitely in the first week we would lose money we need a week of learning let me know what his winning percentage was he didn't know I guess that's the thing

would figure something out and have a very advantageous play to it. If this comes out and it's just a couple random games, I guess I don't care, but You have to care, man. You can't.

You have to care. You're an umpire. That's like the one thing you can't do. You had job security for life, dude. It's the one thing you can't do. It's like a pretty young umpire too. Hoberg out. Angel Hernandez back. That's the messed up part of all this.

Everyone was just assuming, oh, that's why Angel were talking. That's tough. Oh, man. That's tough. I mean, it would have been kind of beautiful. I'm glad we talked about that. Trev. Met's Padres has some storyline.

The NL... It's a mess. The NL has cool weeks. Where it's like this happened. This was a sad weekend. I'd almost, besides the Cardinals, I guess, which we're going to talk about a little bit in a minute.

I don't know. The Mets are back in the picture because they won three games. Why are you sad about the Mets being back in the picture? I just think it should be one of the easiest cells in recent history. Like, they want to sell. But I don't, I don't know. I don't know how this sorts out at all.

They're losing me a little bit on the leash. Last episode, Padres, we're playing winning ball. You traded for a rise early. The pitching rotation is there. The lineups deeper than ever. San Diego is San Diego until they're not. And I got tricked by them. And I shouldn't be tricked by any of these mediocre teams.

Mets have won nine or their past 11. 11 of their past 15 They're hot Go win the whole thing, Mets Four games under 500 But you can't sell I think if you talk to a contingency Of Mets fans

They probably like hey No like let's do Let's do that plan But then how could you tell people that When you're a game and a half back Of a wild card spot I don't know It's gonna be interesting

I'm happy for that man I am too And I guess I Padre fans, you guys are a loud friendly bunch. You guys have to be more frustrated than me. Or maybe it's just SoCal, bro.

Seven straight road games. 571 OPS 2.2 runs per game during that span. I mean, you know, the offense on the road just hasn't been there. And why? There's no rhyme or reason for it, dude. There's no rhyme or reason for it. It just happens sometimes. seventh straight road loss for the Padre. So, golly.

Trev, I'll be honest. Maybe I'm making some fan bases mad, but nothing really jumps off the sheet to me. I know we've got some standouts and different things from this, but if you see something you need to yuck about, yuck some ball. I think the Cardinals are a team. We've got to talk about a little bit about go into Chicago

and do their thing. I'm going to talk about some of the starting pitching, has kind of been what's going on here. They hold the Cubs to how many runs in this series? Six runs in three games. I guess they only scored six runs. But you went two out of three.

Pedro Pahezen, you've never been seen in the same room. I mentioned that to you before the episode started. You guys look identical. A couple of nice homers for him there in Chicago. Yeah, I mean, I'm kind of good on the rest of it. Go Nats, go. Sam Fran, what is you doing, baby, for sure. But again, when you have, how many teams are in the NL? 15 teams in the NL and 13 of them are in a playoff spot

or within one and a half games of it? What are we doing? Here's a sentence that shows how ready to get hurt I am. Cardinals fans, I'll put a couple chips on the table for you. Because at least this offseason, they went out and they tried to address their needs. Yes. Which, like, that's my minimum ask at this point.

And, like, Mason win. I, I oozed, gushed about him. So, yeah, I guess I can support it, but I, I don't know, I feel like I'll be here on Friday being like, well, Cardinals flunk the dunk. Hopefully I'm wrong. But, yeah, right now 35 and 35 has you firmly in the NLWalk card. Firmly.

It's ridiculous. Uh, Brewer's, sorry a little penalty for being too good. Uh, we'll talk about you more in a little bit. And then, yeah, I guess, uh, Braves saw some signs from guys, although they, they sneaky have the injury bug, big man. Uh, and they're messing around with their lineup a little bit that, uh, very interested to see the next steps for them. And I, even I caught a little MLB network this morning and they're like,

expect the Braves to do something soon. Because right now, right now, right? know at least Ramone Luriano as their starting right fielder. Yeah, we talked about that. Alex Anthopoulos had a little scrum, a media scrum, and he said, they're making phone calls, nothing's the MMM, but he's going to improve the roster. That's what he does. I mean, he understands the urgency, you know, with this window, with this fan base, they are used to, you know, being in a better position.

So he'll address it. But again, like, there's going to be so many buyers at the deadline. I think guys are going to have to get creative. I think teams are going to have to get creative, go after guys they normally wouldn't or give up guys they normally wouldn't. Because at least that's what I'm hoping for is that we have a plethora of buyers.

Could end up being, everyone just stands pat and says, hey, we're here as we are. Let's just run it. I hope that doesn't happen. Man, a bad deadline would get baseball people hot about the wild card format. Speaking of hot, can I tell you people about Tommy, John?

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I could just wear the shorts. I looked at them and I said, I still want to have my TJs on. So I've got the TJs on under them because I just like them. I like them holding my back. biscuits. Trev, question.

I don't think you should not wear underwear with shorts that have liner. Do people do that? I see both sides of the argument. Put your Tommy John's on. Right. Throw your T.Js on. Take the discussion out of it. Because I don't know.

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I'll show the people and I'll say. Let's see it. Standout performances. Standout performances. Go, TJ. That's my T.E.J. Go up a little higher there. Yeah, I bet.

is that JG? Who's your standout? I stand out. I got a couple of them, Pop. I wanted to highlight a few of these NL Central starters. We just gushed about the NL Central how good everyone's playing in that division. No doubt. Our guy, Kyle Gibson, who I'm always going to mention seven-nings pitch.

These guys have a very scary, similar line, so that's why I wanted to bring it. Friday night in that series, seven-nings pitch, two hits, zero-earned-run, one walk, six-ks. Ghibie is doing exactly like I don't want to say exactly Ghibby things he's been better than advertas

he's been better and he's gonna pitch till he's 50 years old because he doesn't drink and he has like the best like disposition on life he's got like no stress he's just like got a great family

he's gonna pitch forever people so go love you on some Ghibi for me and then Shoda a couple hiccup starts there last couple weeks but he's been back seven things pitched on Saturday four hits, one earned run, 6Ks, got the big strikeout.

We already showed you the celebration. I just, I love watching a pitch. It's the bottom line, man. So shout out to those two guys, my No Central studs on the mound. Trev, I was at first going to try to play a jealousy card, but I know you just love Gibby too much, but team option next year for 12 mil.

I mean, I don't want to report early on it, but. All right. Yes. It's starting to feel like we're Kyle Gibson's going to have one of those baseball references where it's like, wait, he pitched four years for the Cardinals and had a three eight. Yeah, man. He has been exactly what they needed.

Innings and pretty good innings at that. And yeah, again, that's a great baseball town. Mason win, top of the lineup, the new show. shortstop, they've had a lot not go right. So the fact that they're sitting pretty, maybe they get that. It's kind of, I don't think I'm depicting what I'm trying to say well. The Mariners were a couple games above 500. Their offense hadn't clicked, and I was like,

they take a couple steps in the wrong direction, and that's going to suck. They've gone the opposite way, it's rolling. If the Cardinals can have a couple steps in the right direction and kind of come back to what they were supposed to be, and they get Miami and the Giants coming up I don't know none of their numbers are flashy right now excuse me Jesus

they've had they had like really one the Cardinals had like one bad stretch of baseball where they lost series to Detroit to the White Sox and then the Mets in Milwaukee they had an L what 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,000, they got L8 and that's when everyone just wrote them off

and said this is over there was stuff going on again with Marble mall. He was going crazy. Right. And then Gibi told me, relax, man, can it be okay? And since then, they've been doing it, man. They're kind of a consistent team. 13 and 3 in April, 13 and 12 in May,

they're 8 and 7 in June. Slightly above average. They're sitting right now at 35 and 35. I know we opened the show with it, but also that show to fist pump. That's kind of what it's about. Cubbies. Geez. Trev, I don't want to say it's a little okey-doke,

but, you know, I gave your twins a little tough love. But it's time to talk about C4, man. Carlos Correa is going nuts. Including a two-homer day, which, okay, Carlos. You know, I didn't think we were going to see too many more of those. Trev Carlos Correus now stats on the years years two and a half four sure 308 batting average 370 on base

and 878 OPS You know and this This hot street kind of lines up with me shaking his hand At Yankee Stadium which is just a little I was going to tell you that I didn't want to get you upset but yes it did That's a little weird Okay

and yeah, how about 24 for his last 47? That's a 5-11 batting average over the last 11 games that I think it's just funny how quickly baseball moves. The last time that Carlos Correa had an 850 OPS, he finished fifth in MVP. Like, this guy was a top 10 player or so when he was hitting like that. because he was so good defensively that it's kind of like,

I've been tough on your Twinkies. And part of that was they were missing Royce Lewis, who my God, you're right on that guy. But Carlos Correa, we didn't think had this in him again. And if he does, that does change the Twins outlook. Yes, it does. I don't know if he's going to continue the way he's doing. He's not going to stay at 5.11.

Well, I'm not saying the batting average. I mean, Aaron Gleeman had this great statistic. on June 5th, which was the day before you shook his hand, he was hit 247. And 11 days later, he's hitting 308, and he's third in the AL and batting average. Like, that's the hot streak he just went on. There is a statistical, excuse me, a mechanical side to this.

I did mention on the broadcast, those first couple Yankee games, hip was flying, man. It was flying open. He was getting exposed on the outer half of the plate. and I asked David Popkins a hitting coach about it and he goes yeah we're working man like we're trying to get him tight like his hands are getting out of the hips going

we're trying to get him tight so he prior to that June 6 game he was in there working keeping everything tight man and I think that game he got like like a blue pit or he drove the ball against Marcus Stroman for a homer and he went to so went to right field

first inning I believe it was hits the homer and then that was like this swing that clicked him. Oh, okay. You feel it. And ever since then, you mentioned it, 511, 1.3 in the last 11 games, 52 played appearances. It's been nuts, man. And they needed that big time because twins offensively, they haven't had really anybody go. Spurts of Max Kepler, or like he's had like crazy, you know, peaks in valleys this year. Royce Lewis is a guy. He's a stud. Jeffers is kind of he carried them early on in the season

but he's stepped down a little bit but Correa is even when he wasn't hitting it's so valuable to the twins I've become a massive Carlos Correa fan so yeah I'm glad you gave him this it's nice of you it's really weird one handshake

and now look he was he was really was it really was and he dapped you up hard too yeah I think he was Was he trying to show me how? Yeah, real recognized real. You know, does he probably have bigger hands in me? Yeah.

I think there was an argument for that. No, that was you, me, Joe's McFlying Correa. The boys were just bopping for a couple minutes there. Just talking ball. That's all. He brought up Blitzball, so he's been, maybe he was watching me in the lab. Maybe that's what?

Just short to the ball. Trev There could have been You know Jake Cave put up a three hit day I mentioned Colt Redugo Lenin Sosa

on your white socks Did we even talk about Alex Verdugo getting booed to the high heavens In Boston and then hitting the first pitch he sees out for a homer That's gangster That feels pretty good I shouldn't have said that word

Because that's I shouldn't Is gangster out? I'm 38 Yeah That was awesome I don't care who you root for You know that's a cool baseball moment Just accept it

No it's a cool baseball moment Best part of our show Dirt nasty's on Fuego That means I'm on fire babies Like Waco I haven't been partaking Pop I had a little gum last night Okay

This is a small one I tried to sleep without it the other night and had the worst sleep in my life. You're back. Back. All right. For the series, you talked about this guy

earlier in the show. New York Mets, D.H. J.D. Martinez. He went six for nine. Nice in the series. Two doubles, two homers, six runs, driven in, and five walks.

Martinez became the six player in Major League Baseball season. I have the go-ahead RBI in three straight games, how you feel. And Padres, probably shouldn't have a pitch to him. Atlanta third basement,

Austin Riley, welcome signed for the Braves and Braves fans six for 10 in the series a double three homers eight runs driven in five runs scored you got to love to see that lane Thomas of course it's always lane Thomas and Matt Veerling Washington outfielder went five for 13 you're saying that's okay it's 385 average but a double and three homers uh in that series he homered in his six consecutive game against Miami he's tied with braves outfielder Ronald lacuna junior the longest home one streak against the marlins. So when the marlins come into town,

Lane Thomas is like, I got you, hop on my back. That's a good feeling now. Yeah. Yeah. For the week, Jackson Merrill, of course.

Hit some bombs, doing your thing. Eight for 21, a double, four homers, six runs driven in for the 1.4 OPS, providing value defensively.

And I think the offense is stabilizing. I'll say that. John Peterson, hired gun, let's go. You want them on your team, probably going back to the Braves and they'll win a World Series because of it. Six for 18, a double two homers, 10 runs driven in, seven runs scored.

He recorded this four stolen base. That's the most he's had in a season since. 2016. It's a long time ago, people. Riley Green, nine for 27 in the series. That's a 333 average. Three homers, three, or excuse me, a triple, but he had 11 runs driven in in the series.

series. My gosh. And then this is the list you want to be on. And we're going to start off with a guy who's probably going to play on a different team later in the season. Chicago, White Sox first baseman, Andrew Vaughn. He's been banging for the last two weeks. 20 for 55. Two doubles,

five home runs, 12 runs driven in, 12 runs scored. Two walks for the one daughter over the last two weeks. Hunter Brown. Now, when I went, we talked about this. The twins came from Houston. and we're in New York, and I asked Jeffers like about the series, and he said Hunter Brown is absolutely filthy.

And at that point, statistics were not good. Really struggled to start the year. Over the last three games started, 19 innings pitched, only 12 hits, three earned runs, 23K, that's a 142 ERA.9 whip. He's thrown a career best five consecutive quality starts, including 13 consecutive scoreless innings in his last two. starts. That's nice for Astros fans. Too little too late, probably.

Are we giving up on the Astros? Or are they making savvy baseball moves to get back in this thing? I mean, you have to respect their ownership, being able to cut a Brayu, just 30 mil. Let's set this on fire. That's pretty wild.

So, with the Expanded Wild Card, there is a little bit of time, but not much. Like, they have to get hot and they have not shown they can do anything close to that. And then they have to decide whether or not to trade Alex Bregman.

That's wild. George Kirby, I mean, name the Mariners starter. Pick one out of a hat. Last three games started, 18 innings pitched, 14 hits, three earned runs for the 1-5, the 0.94 whip. He's 5-0 with a 108 against the Rangers in his career. You've got to love that, Pop.

Yeah. And that's who's in Fuego. Well done. Perfectly done. per yuge. It does segue us into the worst part of the show because it's the IL update. And a couple guys going on the aisle.

How about former All-Star Game MVP, Elias Diaz? I hate to see that. Kyle being Braddish, we discussed that. Hank Davis for Pittsburgh. Michael Harris Deuce for the Braves. That's him and Ronnie on the IL. That's a team that's traded for outfielders before. Go bring Eddie Rosario back.

We got a bunch of Minnesota. You want some outfielders? We got it. Yeah, you got the Outfield Connect, bro? They're all at AAA right now. Get you met Walner over there to Atlanta and see what he does. Never seen him and Matt Olson in the same room. Minnesota Moose.

Matt Olson, I think he announced on Instagram that him and his wife are pregnant. And I almost left a comment. And then I was like, you know what? Just don't be creepy. Just leave it, Jake. Thinking of that, Cole Tucker, he's talked to him. I think it's happening. this week. It's game time, man. Excited for him.

Jordan Wicks for the Cubbies. They like him. Kyle Harrison for San Francisco, they like him. And we talked about the two big ones, Yamamoto and Betts. Nolan Jones coming off the aisle for the Rocks. I want to see more of that guy. He was the truth last year. Kelsey Wingert swears. He's a guy guy. He's the real deal. So I'm in a... She made me go up and meet him last year. Love that. She just like Introduced us He's like

Who the fuck is this? Get this beat reporter away from me Tommy Pham is back So fight season on And then Philly I mentioned Trey Turner How about Brandon Marsh Casual

800 OPS player for them With some good defense And he just looks Philly hot So that's the IL update Which now allows us to begin the week. I'm going to see Kelsey this week, Trev.

It's actually how you set a volleyball. I learned that. Yeah, you make the kind of triangle. I didn't know that until yesterday, yeah. Trev, can I tell you about Arena Club real quick? Please. Because you were in the card game. I don't know if you still are.

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dang that's refreshing award and I actually had one of these the other day when I order a drink like a regular beverage not an alcoholic beverage it's usually water It's kind of just what I drink.

I like a Diet Coke now and then, but I try to stay away from that. I think the brown food coloring where the heck they use to color, it's not good for you. It's a guilty pleasure of mine. Try to stay away from that. But other than that,

like if I'm at a restaurant, like I don't order like a soda or whatever. I just order water. I don't know if a lot of people are like that, but I'm definitely one of those people. The other day though, so hot out here. I said, I need something different.

The tongue needs a little taste. on it if you know what I mean. You've been there, Jake. Yeah. So what I did was I ordered a iced tea and I was like, you know, I need a little bit more than that. So I said, hey, give me a 7525 ice tea to lemonade ratio. So I went with the Arnie Palmer and it was so refreshing that it almost like forgot how good it was. And it's a little scary because now I I want more of it. I'm trying to keep this tight. That's why I drink the water.

But it was a, it was a, kind of like knock me back a little bit. I said, oh, shoot, like this stuff like this exists. And maybe I need to get into it a little more. I felt the same way with our guy, Snoop D-O-G. Yeah. In the booth, calling Proofers games.

He was playing a concert at the casino that I've lost a lot of money at. So he's playing there. He gets in the booth. I think Beaves has got a little. little bit of it for us to listen to. Electric, by the way. Electric.

So that alone to me was refreshing because he's a guy that clearly doesn't watch a lot of baseball. He's not going to sit around and watch baseball games, but he got in the booth and was calling the games. And like his enthusiasm for it was refreshing. Easy to one, two, one, two, two. You feel like you don't want this all the time. But you get it every once in a while, and it's refreshing. A little taste is awesome. He starts talking about Kristen Yelich,

his guy, you can't let the pitcher beat you. Yeli steals second base, he's all about it. It's just refreshing to hear him in the booth, right? This is the one. Get it in there, he can just run it out, run it out, run it out, right? He's snoo. But it's awesome. But he highlighted, I think, what was the most refreshing part to me,

and it kind of like took me back and like, oh, I need to enjoy this a little bit more than I do on a regular basis. It was when he was watching Ellie De La Cruz play. No way he's got that. No way he's got that. Ellie fires one over to first base. Oh, my gosh, he's got a rocket in his pocket. And he starts like marveling at this guy's play.

And it got me thinking, like, I've watched a lot of Ellie I know how good he is but I think we're like still undervaluing what he brings to the sport he is probably the most physically gifted person in all of baseball

and that's like not like hyperbole check this out yeah this is Snoop calling him get up in there oh he's safe he can't throw that he ain't got no old like that no he does though no he does

he does is that what dead with that right? They're like, no, he does. He's got that. The one play I wanted the highlight in particular, because he's been doing it on defense this year, which I think is really important to point out. Yes.

So he's 95th percentile, outs above average, he's got five. We know about the arm strength. It's there. Sprint speed is in the 100 percent of the fastest guy in the game. So there was a play where they tried to pick him off at second. It wasn't really a particularly close play, but they bobbled the ball.

It leaks into the outfield, and then this happens. Oh, just Time out on me I'm putting Divers on it right now. That was... Watch this happen. Like this is the stuff that makes him so unique. There's not even a stop, man.

Like there's no hesitation whatsoever. Nobody in the game does that. Like stuff like this is, it's insane what he's able to do on the field. So we've got to continue to pay attention to Ellie Day of Cruz. Watch them on defense, watch them run the bases.

The batting will come around. I think he'll figure it out. He's struggled since the start of May with the stick. The OBP around 299, I think it is. But that'll come. He's 22 years old. I think the stick will come, but we're watching one of the elite talents

play the game in baseball. And when I saw this, I was like, I need more L.A. of the Cruz in my life, dude. Like, he is an absolute monster. So I wanted to give him some love. Snoop Dog called it out. He was also saying,

like Jonathan, he loved Jonathan India. I think he called him Indica at one point, which was perfectly on brand. The whole thing to me was just awesome, so I wanted to highlight it. The refreshing award. Trev, beautiful. I mean, Snoop, your guy in the booth,

just showing, again, that entertainment plays, which, you know, we've talked on and off the record about some of the current MLB booths. and I don't know, a little... If Snoop can do it, I think we can find some more performance-enhancing guys to add to the booths and girls. And then, yeah, Ellie De La Cruz, for me,

seeing that play was kind of like, yeah. And Snoop nailed it. Because I think that's always one of the cool things, when there's celebrities that you could tell are actual, like, sports people. Like, yeah, Snoop's probably not watching every dollar. Dodgers game or every baseball game, but he's a sports guy. Like, he does, he's, he did all that, like, flag football stuff in L.A. Like, he's a, he's a sports guy.

Yes. That, you know, Snoke knows what, what baseball looks like. And Ellie Dayla Cruz playing shortstop, that ain't been what baseball looked like. He's kind of like baseball's Wembeenjama right now. Like, when you mention talent, I mean, Shohay always has an argument in these conversations, but what Ellie's doing athletically, we just haven't seen. And that play from a shortstop is sicko stuff.

That's the hardest play a shortstop can make is a slow backhanded ball. Coming in on that, having to backhand it and throwing over to first base is the hardest throw you have to make. And he just, like, wristed it over there at 95 miles an hour. He's a nut. And let's get him some more games, because you're right. I mean, there will be more improvement.

He's already, he's at a 118 OPS Plus, which is really strong, especially if we did OPSS, if you added his steals. Yes. But yeah, he's got the same amount of walks as he did last year in 27 less games, so that's a good sign. The walk percentage is up, it's the whiffs, the K's and the swing and miss. He'll figure that out. He leads the NL in strikeouts, which, you know, I think with more experience,

I think he can get better, better at that. He is a special guy So I'm glad you highlighted him And Oh Hey MLB booths have some fun It works Also in that series

The day after I give my bunt rant Blake Perkins pops one up to end Yeah But then Yelly did it Two days later Yeah The bunt is hot bro The brewers know

You fight and you bun That's how you win baseball games I drink and I know things Um Brewers I almost gave you guys an award because he didn't get talked about a lot this episode and you guys win another series against the Reds.

That's eight straight against the Reds. I was going to give them the Who's Your Daddy Award? Because, man, I get excited about the Reds and the Brewers. They just do their thing in the Central. Cardinals, I said I was going to put some chips on the table. Screw them all. And that's what I think I'm going to go, I'm just, I was going to say down with the union,

but that sounds like a, it sounds like a dumb award. Because I don't, I think historically I'm not about that. I'm going to go down with the man. Yeah. I'm talking. It's the machine. I'm talking Trevor ploof, hacky-sacking. Music's loud.

Don't care. Going through stop signs. Don't like that. Nope. Definitely a stopper at stop signs. It's going to my gnats, bro. Yeah, as we walk through it and we said the Nats are our team, I'm in. They've gone through the rebuild.

They're sitting here. None of the other teams have won us over. We talk prospects a lot, Trev. And I was clicking through the Nats team and I was like, what do we got going on here? Like, okay, C.J. Abrams is happening. Awesome. Lane Thomas has kind of been happening. Great.

The young pitchers, I've said it twice now, but D.E. DJ hurts, the 23-year-old with six-innings 13Ks. McKenzie Gore has been great this year, 25 years old. Mitchell Parker has been great, 24 years old. Jake Irvin, you know why I like him. James Wood, one of the prospects on our radar, big boy, part of a big trade. You know, a guy we're like, yeah, you know, he probably gets a call this year. I was like, you know what?

I'm a baseball guy. let me go check out what the big fella is doing at AAA. You know, am I going to click and he's got a 701 OPS? And he's like, yeah. The big fella in 455 games of AAA this year is 355-465-01.062. So, Nats, I'm in on you. If you call a Big James Wood, let's go. And why not?

What are we waiting for at this point? What are we? Trade Eddie Rosario to the Brave, so he starts hitting again. Call up James Wood. Let's make the wild card and let's turn baseball around in Washington. They have the pitching to do it. They do. That's the whole thing we've been talking.

If you've got young arms contributing right now, get some hitting. That's what we said about Pittsburgh. Screw them. Let's go Nats. Those are two teams that are very, they're eerily similar. and where they're at in their window. What are you going to do about this young pitching? Because I think my take on all of that has changed as we've seen.

And again, I don't know if it's like statistically more pitcher injuries this year or just seems that way. But when you have guys throwing the pill and they're healthy, go do something about it. Don't wait. Don't wait for what's inevitably going to come. Do you know what I mean? Yes.

You got to go out and do it. I like that. I think we will see what at some point this year. And that is, I mean, they are missing some offense. There's no doubt about it. They've had some games. They had some guys go for them. But by and large, collectively as a team, yeah, it just hasn't really happened.

I mean, you're talking 23rd and runs, 24th and OPS. They can steal, though. They get on base. They're going. So they're a fun team to watch play the game of baseball. I like watching them play defense. I'm very curious to see what direction they take. There's so many teams.

I feel like I've said that four times this episode. alone, there's so many teams that have big time decisions to make, real decisions to make. And you know, what's funny is there's only so many guys out there. So some of these teams are going to get left at the dance. Yeah. And it's not going to be from lack of trying. And I hope the nationals aren't one of them. I hope they kind of add from within and then add for real. Analytics. Yeah, I think they've entered for me a little bit of like, get these young guys playing competitive games that matter and I think that'll be

more important than the prospect you get back for Jesse Winker. I am huge on that. Go play some meaningful baseball at the big league level. Really get that. I don't think there's anything that prepares you for the rest of your career than playing in meaningful baseball. I wish I got to play more of it.

I think I would have been a better player. I really do. So I agree with you there. And me and Jimmy actually took the over on the nationals while you took the under. at 66.5. Jesus. Well, tough ending for me. Great ending for the Nats.

Great ending for Trevor and BBD. I got one more thing. One more thing. I'm going to run this by you. I'm putting this out in the world because the twins got their city connects. They're all about the lakes, right? 10,000 lakes.

And they sent out a tweet like, it's going down Sunday at the lake. or meet us, I said something about the lake. And I was like, man, like, are we,

are we referring to Target field as the lake now? And it's like, not really a thing, but I want to make it a thing. What do you think of that? The lake. Like,

um, you get the lake first and pops and we'll watch a game. Like, I think the lake is a cool thing to call that stated. Now, Target might be upset about that. Yeah. But maybe they buy into it.

I think it's a great name. I want to do it. The merchandising that they could do from it is incredible. a lot of Twins fans were into it. Do they have a water feature? Because if you're going to... No, that's what I'm saying. They got to add one.

You got to add something. If they add a water feature, I'll be in. But yeah, otherwise you can't... Can't do that. They got like this big section in right field. They could just put a little pond there. You know? Yeah.

Like, you know, when you go to Bass Pro shops where they have the big tank and they have all the fish swimming, like maybe something like that? Hell, they've got... If we put some pike behind the plate, like Miami used to... to have the aquarium?

I was just going to bring up the aquarium. For whatever reason, that hits a talking baseball cord with us. The lake. I'm in. Boyce Lewis, the Loch Ness Monster. Oh, man, there's so much there. I'd want them to lean in so hard. Like, every homer, a guy's got to go in and, like, reel in a big fish or something.

It really is what Minnesota is all about. They love the lake. Oh, the lakes, eh? Yeah, I was going to head up there this weekend, but have you seen this Royce Lewis how he's hitting the ball? I'm telling you, man. Just twins officials, branding experts, just think about it. Talk to Target.

It could be called Target Lake. I don't care. He's kind of, he's reminded me of Corey Koski a little bit. He's looking really good over there. Thank you to everyone. Let me know what you think. Comment, tweet it Trevor Pleaskey. We'll see you guys with a midweek.

It could be a funky one. It's a funky week. Cheekshucks. Could be a funky end of week. The boys are banging down to lake. We're going to be in person in a couple days. Oh, boy. Might bang by a lake.

I'm starving right now. I'm hungry. Baseball today, Chris Rose. Trevor Plouf. This is how I look.