Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - We Played MLB Guess Who?!

Episode Date: August 26, 2026

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Starting point is 00:00:01 Hello and welcome to talking baseball. It's the midweek. We're doing some MLB guests who. We got a buncho games, some batting stances at the end. Let's talk ball today. Let's talk ball. Whoa. Kevin Brown. Chris Davis with a K. Maybe an opposite field Homer. Ponche. Honeche. Hello. Welcome to talking baseball. Presented by Fanatics Markets, where fans trade on sports. Fanatics Markets, available now in the app stores. My name is Jake Story Ellie. That's Trevor Ploof. Rob Chorocko is cooking in the lab.
Starting point is 00:00:45 You guys are about to see Dalton Feeley on the ones, twos, and threes. With Rob a little bit on this one, because they got lost in the sauce. This is going to be a big YouTube app if you're someone that normally podcasts. I'd help would like if you could go check out the YouTube because Rob really went to work. And we got some trivia. We got some different games. We're going to play all about the 2026 season in some of these players. And I guess test ourselves a little bit, Coach.
Starting point is 00:01:12 You nervous? Yeah, I don't want to be made to look like a fool. So, yeah, I'm a little bit nervous here. By the way, Chris Davis has a 24.7 chance to get a hit off Kevin Brown because that's what he does. I mean, what year are we talking about? Like, what do you? I don't know. He gets 247 every single year.
Starting point is 00:01:31 I saw him in Chicago earlier this year with his family. Yeah, that's if you include the meat pitchers and stuff. Prime Kevin Brown, dog. Yeah, he was really good. Come on now. Why'd you go there? I don't know. I just, it kind of hit me like a vision.
Starting point is 00:01:44 Dodgers, Kevin Brown, Marlins, Kevin Brown. How would you like 233 innings at a 189 in 96? I would like that. Jeez and biscuits. Underrated. Hall of Fame. That first $100 million pitcher? That is some, yes, that's a Chris Rose discussion for another day.
Starting point is 00:02:02 We're not going to do that. We're going to talk some 2026 players. And like I've now teased, Rob got in the lab. We've got a version of 20 questions featuring some MLB guys. We've got kind of like a Bar-night trivia game. We've got some higher or lower. So we're going to get into it all,
Starting point is 00:02:20 kind of test out our knowledge. And if you are someone who YouTube's or a lot of people watch on TV, did you know that, Trev? I didn't know that. It's okay. So you're just like, I guess it's just, yeah, YouTube app on the TV. Yeah, you're all over it. You know.
Starting point is 00:02:38 Yeah, my kids do that. That makes sense. No, it's fun. Yeah. And like we, you know, we have smart people that work here now and they'll track and they'll be like, oh, you know that episode. More people watch on TV. And I'm like, well, we're tracking that. So however you consume, we thank you so much.
Starting point is 00:02:54 And let's dive into it, Bob Opetek. Okay. All right. So our first game is going to be whose card is this? and so you guys are going to be working together to solve this multiple choice of this baseball savant player's card. Okay. I like the first one you gave us, like, as a practice one, I feel like I had that one. Yeah, that's because it's like Luis Arise versus Raphael Devers.
Starting point is 00:03:24 So we've up the Annie. What do we? I mean, we've got a good page here. We got the negatives are high. they chase and a horrible OAA. Yes. That's kind of a giveaway. So this one,
Starting point is 00:03:40 the choices are C.J. Abrams, Jake Bowers, Danesby Swanson, and Gavin Sheets. So Danzby Swanson's automatically eliminated. That's fantastic. I think Jake Bowers isn't a big chase guy. So I feel like we could eliminate him.
Starting point is 00:03:54 Dalt's nervous about that. I can't look at Dahl. And also I'm going to go sprint speed here, 28.5. Oh. 80 percentile, so I'm taking Gavin Sheets out. So this is CJA. Are we? I think it's C.J. Abrams.
Starting point is 00:04:08 The OAA, the sprint speed, I think that makes sense. And also, by the way, you know, Rob and Dalt threw it out. Do you and Trev want to compete against each other on this or be a team? And I don't know if it's because we got a big warehouse weekend, but we're both kind of like, let's team up on this. Let's be allies in the force. Let's lock in CJA. Locking in C.J. Abrams.
Starting point is 00:04:31 and that is correct. Boom. Boom. How's his second basement going? I haven't seen any highlights or low lights, I feel like. That's a good sign. I saw something really good on him. Online someone was like, if we didn't have savant pages,
Starting point is 00:04:47 if this was 1998, and we were just looking at his offensive statistics, he'd be a top three MVP candidate. I was like, dang, like you're kind of right. It is funny, man. Like Sunny Gray, Cy Young would be a big conversation. conversation in the AL right now. He's leading in wins and just having a good year. But yeah, I'm surprised. I'm sure some of the, I say nerds in a sweet way, whether it's
Starting point is 00:05:10 jolly or foolish, like redoing old award seasons. I feel like, I feel like that's an easy win. I guess maybe we need to do that. Could be a long off season. Today's episode is sponsored by Best Western Hotels and Resorts. Summer baseball means road trips, driving out, catch a series in a city you've never been, or fly out there to watch. your team play. And when you make those trips where you stay, it can add to the experience or get in the way. Best Western gets it. 4,000 hotels worldwide. They've got a network that puts you close to the action. Locations near the stadium, easy parking, breakfast ready before a day game, a reliable home base between the action. So all the energy goes towards the game
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Starting point is 00:06:12 Let's do another card. All right. Here we go. Ooh. Now this card... What a blood red. Cody Clemens, Trey Turner, Gavin Sheets, or Matt Olson.
Starting point is 00:06:23 The red is the expected slug at 97th, barrel percentage 95th, average exit velo, at 94th percentile. Sprint speed is down. Nineth. A percentage down. Tough,
Starting point is 00:06:39 tough draw for Trey. Trey's going to be out on this because of the sprint speed being nine. I think these outs above average is where I'm going and that's my key. So I think, again, this is a 93rd percentile outs above average guy. I'm taking Gavin Sheets out. Trey Turner's out because of the sprint speed. Cody Clemens has. How's Cody picking it?
Starting point is 00:07:02 How's Cody picking it? He's our best defender besides Byron Buxton. So the outsub of average, I don't know if he's racked up that many because he's played some first base, second base outfield. This is definitely between him and Matt Olson. But the top, like the exit VLO, max exit VLO, let me look at the walk rate. This is, to me, I'm looking at Matt Olson. Well, Trev. I'd be shocked if it was coached.
Starting point is 00:07:32 You are correct. Yeah. Okay. It is Matt Olson. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Outs above average and first base still throws me off sometimes, although now we've got
Starting point is 00:07:42 that new picks metric or something. But this is a good baseball Savon page. Matt Olson, great player. All right. Next one. Here we go. Here we go. Now we're in it a little bit.
Starting point is 00:07:56 Colson Montgomery, Mooky Betts, Nick Gonzalez, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Okay. The sprint speed is becoming a quick 87th percentile red. My guy Vladito, this is genuine. I love the way he runs the bases, but I don't think he's coming in at that 87th percentile sprint speed. I don't either, but he goes max effort and I respect it. He does, man. And I think when they're playing good ball, I think that matters. I think the team feeds off of it. Seeing one of your guy guys hustle like that, that matters, Yankees.
Starting point is 00:08:32 So we also have, again, the outs above averages, the worst. It's the first percentile. Crazy. I already have a lean on this one because I feel like I've looked at this guy's savant page and was very surprised that the defense was looking like this. Vladdy's out. I think I'm taking mookie. It just doesn't feel like a mooky page.
Starting point is 00:09:00 I'm taking mooky out of this because he's a best. better defender than that. So this is going to go up between Nick Gonzalez and Colson Montgomery. Nick Gonzalez is having a pretty good offensive year. My initial lean, Jake, on this was Colson Montgomery. The bat speed being a 28th percentile throws me off a little bit. Yeah, and I always, barrel, hard hit squared up is always an interesting dance for me, because, like, my generic brain lumps those in as they should always be close.
Starting point is 00:09:37 And for a lot of players, they're not. I would say exit velo, the way Colson Montgomery hits the ball, I have him being an exit velo guy that I'm leaning Nick Gonzalez on this. And I know the pirates have moved him around, and I know there's been questions about their defense that I could see him getting hurt there. I didn't think it would look like this. But I, if it comes down to those two, which I agree with you, which, again, maybe there's a sneaky mooky in here.
Starting point is 00:10:00 But I don't think so. because defensively he's still been good. Yeah, and in the K-percentage. The K percentage will be higher for Colson Montgomery. Right now it's at 76 percent. I think I think Colf is striking out a little bit more than that. So I'll go, I'll go Nick Gonzalez. You guys are three for three.
Starting point is 00:10:18 Come on. Yeah. Come on. We know Bob. I look at a lot of savant pages. Paul knowers numerous. What can if, here's a question, Rob. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:28 Is there any way to like, let's put mookies. up real quick to see what the difference is or is that not in this? Yep, here you go. This is Moogie Betts's page. Okay, so yeah, see the outs above average better. Okay. Wow. Still a lead at a lot of things.
Starting point is 00:10:45 Yeah. Damn, chase rate with percentage K percentage outs above average. He'll be playing he's got a lot of baseball left coming this year. All right. Next question. Our fourth one of this. We got Alec Bohm,
Starting point is 00:11:01 Gonzalez again. Oh. Michael Massey. Bryson's stop. The red squared up percentage at 95th, with percentage, with percentage 87th, K percentage 87th, the blue, the outs above average down at the third. Arm strength down at 19th percent and walk rate is down at the 20th percentile. This is the hardest one we've had so far.
Starting point is 00:11:29 Okay. Well, it's not Nick Gonzalez, so I can get us one step closer. That's true. Nick Gonzalez, we just guessed out on that one. I think Michael Massey's a better defender than a negative 9 third percentile. I have him being, I have Michael Massey being kind of a strikeout guy. I don't know. Again, we're thinking this out loud because you're right.
Starting point is 00:11:55 This one is tricky. It feels like one of the, my initial was Bome. me too because stott has to grade out better defensively than third you you would assume you would assume that um the arm strength kind of threw me off i thought bone might have had a better arm than that and stott would be faster than that i think stott's out i think stott's out as well i think michael massy's probably faster than that as well i think alec bomb how fast is the answer you're and yeah i mean this gives up a kind of a kind of a contact hitter profile
Starting point is 00:12:30 like not a great defender, not very fast, but a pretty good contact hit, which that would be Alec Bone. And you guys are correct. Alec Bone 4 for 4. Can we go 5 for 5 in whose card is this?
Starting point is 00:12:48 Whose card is? Whose card is it? Let's see. Here we go. On this card, we got a Zika Duran, Bryce Terrang, Colson Montgomery and Caleb Durbin. The red is outs above average in the 98th percentile walk rate at the 89th percentile,
Starting point is 00:13:10 sprint speed at the 83rd percentile, the blue of his card, swing length down at the eighth percentile, bat speed down 22nd and arm strength 24th. Who is this player? I have a question about swing length. Longer swing length Better?
Starting point is 00:13:30 Shorter swing length, better? I think it depends your approach. On your Savon page, I don't think it cares about your approach. I think traditionally the longer swings are more of the big bopper power hitters. Again, I don't know, for me, that one, I don't know how that, you know, some guys change their swing with two strikes and stuff that I'm not sure how. that lands on the average. Well, it lands low. This could get into a much broader conversation about, like, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:14:05 Are you going to bring up back? You're going to bring everything's back. Everything's back, dude. Ground balls are good again. Everything's back. Fastball's located down and away are back. Playing baseball is back. Remember when running the bases was out for a couple years?
Starting point is 00:14:21 I got, who needs that? Just hit three run homers. The Brewers were like, hey, how about we start playing baseball and we just beat every fucking team? Okay. This is a tougher one. So the else above average is 98th percentile. So this, to me, eliminates Colson Montgomery.
Starting point is 00:14:39 I think so. I have Bryce Turang and Caleb Durbin is very good defenders. Yes. Zeke Duran in my mind, I don't have good or bad in my mind. So it makes me think maybe middling. He's hyperversatile. Like, he's jumped in. a lot of spots for Texas this year,
Starting point is 00:14:58 but that makes me think he hasn't been able to rack up OAA. And I know his... I think Bryce Trang has a long swing. He looks like the bat is huge. You're kind of right. And Caleb Durbin, love you, short king. What? You're not going to say it.
Starting point is 00:15:16 You're not going to say it could be small. You're not going to say what I think. Just shorter arms. I'm thinking out loud, people. Don't fault me for going for, you know, being in my brain a little. Some girls like that. Colson feels like, I think we can eliminate Colson fully.
Starting point is 00:15:37 And Zeke's out, OAA, I think you're right. Arm strength. Does Terang have a stronger arm than 24th percentile? That one's tricky to me. You said he's Bobby Witt, too, bro. I love Bryce Terang. I truly, truly do. And Cooper Pratt's not running balls out,
Starting point is 00:15:55 So, you know, maybe we put terrain short. Man, I'll tell you what. I opened up that clip and I expected to be like Pat Murphy, my manager, I love this guy. And then I was like, yo, you're taking Cooper Pratt out for that. Like he kind of, he just lost it off the stick and then he ran it out. That was tough, man. I'm back and forth on it. I think Pat was probably looking for something.
Starting point is 00:16:22 You know, he likes to do that. Yes. He likes to make sure people. are playing 100% every single pitch and even if it's not something that you meant to do or like, you know,
Starting point is 00:16:33 so I think he was looking for it. I agree though. I think it was a little much by our guy. But you're right. If you rule with authority, um, power's power. I hate that we're coming down to swing length.
Starting point is 00:16:50 I also, I also feel like terrain has good bat speed. You know what I'm saying? percentage, I would say, I know Terang strikes out. So this does kind of line up with that. And I'm not, Caleb Durbin's K percentage kind of escapes me right now as well. I think it's between those two. If I had to guess, Terang and Durbin.
Starting point is 00:17:14 Yeah, this one's tough. The outs above average, I know, yeah, so Caleb Durbin's really good too. I think I'd rather go down with Terang. I mean, the average exit Velo, like Durbin was really rough for the first half of this season. And I don't picture him being an exit Velo king where when Terang pops one, like that's, he has that in his back.
Starting point is 00:17:38 The swing length is crushing me right now. If swing length wasn't on this, I think we've already picked Bryce Terang. The arm strength is interesting. I guess he doesn't have to. We play second base, so that makes sense. Which is a fatal flaw of arm strength, the arm strength tab,
Starting point is 00:17:57 because he could probably throw it. faster but doesn't need to. Yeah, we need to work on that one and some of the sprint speed stuff. Well, Jake, I'm trying to go five for five here, Pop. I know you are. So what do you think I'm doing? Trying to tank this? Don't speed it up so much. Let me marinate on it a little
Starting point is 00:18:17 bit. Maybe. Because he was Tarrang walk like that. Take your time. Sometimes the before is better than the During, you know? I have Caleb Durbin as a really good defender, but I have Bryce Tarrang as a 98th percent. Entile guy.
Starting point is 00:18:37 It's noted is I can confirm a lot of these for Terang and for Durbin. I'm a little in between the literally swing length is the only thing holding me back and I think we're being shortest and who knows. And we don't even understand what it is. When are they actually measuring that? Yeah, exactly. That's going to break our hearts a little bit if it's Caleb. But Bryce feels safer.
Starting point is 00:18:59 Going with Bryce. Well, guys, you are correct. Five for five. in whose card is this? Let's see, Caleb. I hope he has the longest swing in the league. Okay, also short. Okay, short swing.
Starting point is 00:19:16 Oh, my gosh. Look at the top of you. Exit Velo. You crushed it right there. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah. That makes sense. I mean, think about, you know,
Starting point is 00:19:26 some of the big boys and the exit Velo they have in this league to be... The bottom part of this, like from swing length down, or you can square it up down, they're almost identical. Very similar. The top part of the chart is what changed.
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Starting point is 00:20:45 And the boys yesterday, they were like, hey, can we test a couple on you? And I didn't know if we were going head to head. And I was like, I don't think I can't. I don't want to hear coach being mad at me for getting an advantage. And they were like, we kind of need to test it. And A, we're teammates. This pitching one, I kind of didn't think I was going to be into. I don't know if that's my hitter coming out.
Starting point is 00:21:06 Oh, is this not the strikeout locations cracks me up. Strikeout locations? That's every punchout of this pitcher. That's the first clue. Of his career? This season. This season. He has 216.
Starting point is 00:21:22 He gives it away a lot. Who is it? I mean, I can't just, I mean, I have 20 questions, right? Get it. No. You can't. get it on one. Well, how many people have punched out over 200 people?
Starting point is 00:21:34 It's Dylan cease. It's Cease and Ms. Mizz and is Schlittler done it? Does he have two? In my head, he does. Gavin Williams has two. I don't think Schlett does. This to me looks like Mizz because of it's top of the zone, fastballs,
Starting point is 00:21:52 and then bearing something down the way. So, yeah, we have 20 questions, don't we? We do. The 260. I think this is Ms. This is. Yeah. Jacob Miz Rowski.
Starting point is 00:22:04 Maybe we shouldn't have started with Ms. Well, now you guys got 10 points, though, because that was worth five. So it kind of as many guesses as you, or as many hints as you guys, I give you the less points you get. So that was worth five points. That 2.16 was a little high. That was a big outline. I also wonder, you know, do we know ball or like, are people? people at home, you're like, this is obvious, too, because I feel like I'm pretty happy with us.
Starting point is 00:22:35 I think we did great on Terang and Durbin. I think we've done some good context. That one was a bad first example. Bad first one. Okay. So to me, this is 110 strikeouts. You see where the heat zone is. Heat map is.
Starting point is 00:22:49 It's either a lefty. I love this. It's either a lefty with a slide ball or it could be a splitter guy, but there's not a lot of those around. So I think this has to be a left. I like that. I like this being a lefty. It looks like fastballs away. And then, yeah, it looks like we've got...
Starting point is 00:23:06 Do we have to guess between starters and relievers, or are these all starters? It's a mix. It's a mix. It's a mix. It's a starter. There is, again, one of the... It's tough to have 110 punches as a reliever, even, you know. So it's either... I think this is still a starter.
Starting point is 00:23:20 It's either Chapman or Hater or... Yeah, I like the lefty. We need another hint. I don't know. Or do we want to give a guess after each round? Oh man But here's here's half of their card It's not a
Starting point is 00:23:36 No So hold on one second We're not asking questions We're just going to get hints here You can ask questions I think it's more so hints But it's just hints than guess Yeah
Starting point is 00:23:49 I'd rather have the hints Okay So this guy Not a strikeout guy Not This part of their chart is not not elite. Lefty who's
Starting point is 00:24:03 expected ERA is a 4-4-9. The whiff percentage is at 10, which makes sense. So 110 strikeouts means he's thrown some innings. Yeah. He's thrown some innings,
Starting point is 00:24:16 so definitely a starter. Do you want to reveal the whole card? Yes. Curve spin. Who's the lefty slang in that curve? Do we have Is this could this be a I don't know
Starting point is 00:24:33 I was the same Is this a Mackenzie Gore Is this a redetmer Is this Doesn't seem like No Because we're
Starting point is 00:24:40 We're dodging barrels And we're banging off speed pitches Our fastball Velo's sitting at 90 So this is a This is a soft throwing Spinney Lefty
Starting point is 00:24:52 94 Average Fastball Velo That's the Is that the high Fastball Vilo? Oh I was looking at the average exit Velo. Excuse me. Okay. So we got some
Starting point is 00:25:05 94. Lefty throw in 94. This is a guy. Okay. I'll help you out. This feels like a guy that you would say you'd mall. A non-strikeout lefty? Okay. So we have like what? Martine Perez. Martin Perez came to mind. E-Rodd's interesting? I need another clue. I'm not ready to guess. I did hear. Dalton snarfed before. That might be a reveal. Okay, five pitches.
Starting point is 00:25:34 And we kind of get that outline. I kind of like E-Rod. 56% of them down, 13% of them at the top of the zone. You know who this is? Coach. Also, it could be Framber. Ooh. Wow.
Starting point is 00:25:51 Can you go back? That's 78.4. To his card? Yeah. Mm. Because how hard is E-Rond? He still striking people out more than. that, right?
Starting point is 00:26:06 To be honest with you, I don't know. Okay. How hard is Erod thrown right now? Is he averaging 94 with the heater? He's got that. Okay. We have a little bit of the silhouette. You're right right now.
Starting point is 00:26:23 Right. And Framber's face is so iconic. I feel like we would know. When I saw this, I immediately thought, It could be. I think we need more if we're going to lock it in. Need more? All right, here's the next clue.
Starting point is 00:26:36 I like that we're down to two. His pitch A is sinker. Framber. Lock in Framber? I think it's Framber. You guys are correct. Wow. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:26:49 Look at that face. What she sees. Wow. Damn, not a pretty savant. Not a pretty savant. Only 111 strikeouts. Is that really down? we haven't talked about Framber all year
Starting point is 00:27:09 no I think he's like the overall numbers are just okay okay we got him up there 435 144 and two thirds innings pitched Dalt from the top rope I laughed because when you said Erored before the first page I just texted Rob Erod question mark so I was thinking the exact same thing you were in Jake I mean Robbram Framber Framber his strikeout numbers are so steady
Starting point is 00:27:35 over his previous years that this is this is like the only dip. That's interesting. The curve spin, I think, was the biggest one for me. I'm like, okay, who's slaying that curve ball up there? And now, again, that's where I kind of like with the wear your strikeouts, that opening slide. Like, yeah, that's Framber.
Starting point is 00:27:56 Like, yeah, he'll run some sinkers up in a way that get past guys, but he bangs that curve ball down and in. Okay. So what did we get there? 35 points. You got four points there, so you guys are up to 14. Okay. All right.
Starting point is 00:28:14 Oh. Oh. All right. Here we go. Okay. I mean, I've already eliminated some people because that's a dark hat. Nice. 144 strikeouts, 60% of them down, 12% of them.
Starting point is 00:28:32 I need the balls. Top of the zone. This one, this. Yeah. This is what I like. The pitch he finishes with. the most. Should I give that away?
Starting point is 00:28:42 Let me look at the... No. I like analyzing this. I have a guess already, but I'm not going to say it. I love it. I think he's on your team. You think this is a Yanke? Ooh, that kind of looks like a Yankee hat. 144.
Starting point is 00:28:57 This could be a left ear or righty right now. My first guess right now off the bat, 144 strikeouts. I was looking at the silhouette, which I guess is kind of cheating. I have Cam Slittler, but... I think Cam. Cam's got more strikeouts in that. You got more strikeouts in that? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:29:11 Because that's pretty high amount of strikeouts. No, I mean, Cam's right around two. Is he? Yeah. He's been toe-to-to-toe with CIS this year. I'm wondering, Max has a clue. Let's get a clue.
Starting point is 00:29:29 Because, yeah, we got pitches all over the strike. This guy can pitch. We got pitches all over the strike zone. We also got some pitches like down in the dirt, which tells me they've got something nasty. Cam. So here's half of this player's card. Also doesn't have to be a Yankee.
Starting point is 00:29:45 This doesn't help me at all. It's just a good pitcher. This is a good pitcher. But they're good. Expected ERA is a three. So, I mean, he's got to be around here. They don't walk people. I think that's a good, I think that's a good one from this.
Starting point is 00:30:00 They don't walk people. Yeah, this is just, this is a high-level pitcher. I mean, is Sunny Gray? Is that a possible answer for this one? Now I'm looking at the faded hat way too much. We did this with another JM baseball game. One of Jolly's games, he would do this, and we would just get caught looking at the picture.
Starting point is 00:30:20 I think that's kind of... Yeah. Can I say something? Say something. Looks like a white guy. I think that's fair. I don't think that has to be so controversial in our society. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:35 No, I could... I still kind of like freed. Ryan Weathers would be a sneaky one here. Is Freed pitched enough to throw 144 K? No, probably not. Probably not. I have this as, again, I'm still thinking Camers. Right now it's Cammer Sunny in my mind.
Starting point is 00:30:50 144 is a lot of strikeouts. I think we need more. I think we need more. All right, here is the whole card on the screen. Yeah. Curve spin. Okay, fastball's sitting in 95, basically. Curve spins up there.
Starting point is 00:31:07 So you're having a hell of a year. I still like both of the guys that I have in my mind. It's either Cam or Sunny. I'm leaning Sunny right now, but I got to stop looking at the picture. Yeah, I'm only looking at the picture right now. Yeah, because the savant page does not help us. Yeah, we need more. This is a great pitcher.
Starting point is 00:31:30 Oh, a basketball spin. Okay. Here we go. Six pitches. This is Sunny Gray. Is Sunny got 95 and a half in the chamber? He's averaging 96 with that one pitch. Yeah, wow.
Starting point is 00:31:47 I don't think so. That's a good point. So, Trev, we've got four pitches coming in at 90 plus. That's not sunny. Yeah, you're right. That's a bunch.
Starting point is 00:31:58 Okay, so we got four different fast balls, essentially. We got to stop staring at the hat. Who's a pitcher that's throwing four fastballs 90 plus? And has 144Ks. Yes. What does Schlitler throw? What's his art?
Starting point is 00:32:11 Arsenal. I mean, he's got three fastballs and a curveball. Doesn't he throw a splitter? No. What's the 99? The 91 could be some sort of off-speed pitch, like a slider. I'm guessing we're looking at like four-seem, sinker, cutter, slider, something like that. Yeah. Yeah. But then we're also... A good answer. But, dude, he doesn't throw anything 77, and we've got a pitch coming in 12% of the time at 77. Now, you know what?
Starting point is 00:32:46 That picture has changed a little bit. And now I'm thinking maybe it's not just the white guys. Oh. This Yamamoto is now in my mind. Yoshinobu Yamamoto, 100%. Lock it in? I can't believe you white guide us. I did.
Starting point is 00:33:06 Shinobu Yamamoto. And the hat looked nothing like a Yankees hat. Okay. The game tried to win. the good. I think so, yeah. How nasty is he? What is he throwing? His splitter at 91. I knew there was a splitter in there. For some reason, I had Cam Schlittor Thona
Starting point is 00:33:25 Splitter in my mind. Dude, he is a lot of heaters. Every start. We're going to see a lot of him coming up. Okay, that was a grind. That was a grind. That was a good one. Also, I know, this is dumb and obvious, but like, and we're going to do some batting stances coming up and like how every player and pitcher and hitter has
Starting point is 00:33:48 a different profile and approach and everything. This is nasty work. Like this 5-10 booger who just does weird stretches before the game? Like this is gross, dude. So I called this the A's Twins game last night. You know, A's horrible
Starting point is 00:34:04 pitching staff, all this stuff. Gage jump on the mound. Every single guy they brought in, Gage had a fantastic night. The stuff is electric Hogan Harris Elvis Alvarado
Starting point is 00:34:19 like these guys are nasty they just you know walk some guys and they play in crap park it's it's and these are like
Starting point is 00:34:30 the bad pitchers right it's tough man know what I kind of don't get and this was Chris Sale on the Lill League World Series broadcast but he was like yeah
Starting point is 00:34:39 I just tell pitchers to throw strikes but like if you're Alvarado and those guys in the Oakland bullpen is that that's not it. I think you don't have the ability because you want the stuff and I don't know. You know, one of the best lessons I think a pitcher can have is to go either a stand in on a bullpen. You go use the Traject machine or just take BP because you understand that even in batting practice when the guy's doing 60 miles an hour, like you're not squaring up everything.
Starting point is 00:35:15 Yeah, you're going to pop some. Like, go stand. Somebody told me they did that. I think it might have been Taylor Rogers. Was like, I went and stood in on the trajectory. And he's like, I just realized I should just throw all sliders. Like, it's a very hard pitch to hit. I'm like, a lot of teams do that.
Starting point is 00:35:33 Yeah. That was a secret sauce for a couple years there. Yeah. And I even laugh. Like, you know, Ryan Yard. who's basically a one of one in today's baseball. Like his fastball still gets up to 88, which like if someone throws an 88 mile per hour slider,
Starting point is 00:35:50 you're like, ooh, that's pretty gross. Like 88 still gets up there. Yeah. Okay. Not really. Not really. It gets up there. Not our fastball looks like it's a slow motion.
Starting point is 00:36:01 If you're looking for 71, and that's all you've seen. It's true. It is relative to your extension. It's relative to, yeah, the other stuff in your arsenal. like if you're a Matt Waldron or a knuckleball guy. Like, R.A. Dick used to do that.
Starting point is 00:36:18 So you'd have a knuckleball. And then all of a sudden he'd be thrown 88 with it. And that, to me, was like, dude, fuck you. Nice. And you know one more of these? People forget. People do forget. Do you want to do one more pitcher or we could go to batters?
Starting point is 00:36:33 Up to you. One more pitcher. One more picture. Sounds good to me. Let's name that arm. I'm not going to look at. at the picture. This is what I like.
Starting point is 00:36:45 So this picture has 134 strikeouts. 43% of them are down. 25% of them are at the top of the zone. And the pitch he finishes most with is... I won't tell you. Can't. Can't. I don't want it.
Starting point is 00:37:06 What do you see here, Trev? Because this is kind of all over, dog. It is all over. this has done nothing for me. I'm going like possibly a Logan Webb because he's got those ones at the bottom of the zone. Does he get strikeouts at the top of the zone? I don't really think so.
Starting point is 00:37:22 Let's see. There's a lot of... Okay, that was my first time liking the heat map. Again... Because that would... No, this is a lefty. This is a lefty. This is a lefty.
Starting point is 00:37:36 It could be a righty with some sort of split or something that works back in. I do tend to agree that this looks like a lefty profile. Let's lean lefty, 134 punches. That means you're on pace for a pretty good season this year. Let's see what's next. Let's see what's next. Here's half of their card.
Starting point is 00:37:59 I mean. Not flashy. Not doing much for me right here. Pretty average pitcher. Batting average 237, slugging 398, K percentage, 21. I mean, if we're giving up weak contact. Guys are putting the ball in play. Lefty putting the ball in play.
Starting point is 00:38:24 Let's see the full. I need more. Okay. Average exit velo in the 88th percentile at 86.8 miles per hour. Hard hit percentage, 31%. In the 90th. Soft contact king. Yes.
Starting point is 00:38:45 Yeah. Don't, don't, Logan Webb is still in my mind. Okay. Okay. But I also have lefty. Like, I lean lefty,
Starting point is 00:38:54 but I'm not putting out Logan Webb. As soon as we get to the pitch mix, I think that's where I go. And here is the arsenal percentage. 28%. Okay, this is a pitcher. A, 27 for pitch B, 20% for pitch C,
Starting point is 00:39:14 19% for pitch D. I mean, four pitches at 20%. this is a, this is a nightmare. This is why this person is having success. It's kind of, this is, this eliminate Logan Webb for me, maybe. Basketball, change up, slider. I'm going to go back to my lefties a little bit. 94 and 93, and that feels like every pitcher's got either a four-team and a sinker or a sinker cutter.
Starting point is 00:39:48 That 94 is at almost 20. That could be the four seamer. So you'd get a sinker, a four seamer, a slider, and a changeup. I mean, again, it's an old school pitcher. Yeah, that's why Logan Webb right away. Yeah. I'm trying to think. Who's a...
Starting point is 00:40:04 This is a tough one. It was like a four-pitch lefty who's just having a solid year. It's tough. Got to keep going. Keep going, all right. Pitch D is the four-seam fastball. Sure. At 19.
Starting point is 00:40:23 I called that. You want another pitch? I mean, we'll tell you the pitch. Pitch A is the sinker. Yep. Pitch B's the cutter. Pitch C's the change. Or a curve.
Starting point is 00:40:40 Flyer change. This is, I mean, it's really tough for me. I'm trying not to look at the picture. Don't look at the picture. Looks like there's a facial hair. The picture did not help us last time. In fact, we got into more trouble. Who's Logan Henderson?
Starting point is 00:40:56 I don't think he's thrown enough innings for that many strikeouts. Do you want to know how many innings this guy has thrown? Not really. Okay. What's the next clue? Don't do it.
Starting point is 00:41:09 What is it? The next clue would be the pitch B, which is the change up. Oh, sorry. It's okay. I thought you guys said it before. It's okay. Did I nail it from the get-go?
Starting point is 00:41:22 Is this, is this Logan Webb? Because a change it would be, for a lefty, it would go on the other side of the plate. Next is batty. Pull the heat map back up. Heat map. You know what I'm saying? I see what you're saying.
Starting point is 00:41:37 Is Logan Webb getting that much at the top of the zone? I think he might. Now I'm looking at the picture and I don't know if the, I don't know. Let's get more. We don't know. Okay. Well, he bats righty. Not sure.
Starting point is 00:41:57 Not sure if Logan Webb. Would you like the arm slot angle? Need that. Okay. He is a sidearm pitcher at 24.8 degrees. He throws right. I think I had Logan Webb the entire time. I mean, if you want to lock it in, I'm not sure.
Starting point is 00:42:20 I feel like we've been more sure of answers. He throws right? We just figure that out? He throws right and kind of side-up. I'm locking in Logan Webb. For the perfect game. well fortunately
Starting point is 00:42:37 it is Michael King that's such a good one so cocksure it's the same pitcher one in Southern California one in Northern California really is oh my king my king
Starting point is 00:42:54 that makes so much sense that was a good I'm actually happy we got one wrong you know save some for the next time yeah you're right gotta work towards it man I'd like to see their savant pages next to each other.
Starting point is 00:43:05 Well, maybe we can make that happen. Maybe we can't. I don't know. I'm going to go on my own page and look at what's his name, Logan Webb's. That's a good one right there. He's so good. Four pitches, 20, yeah.
Starting point is 00:43:27 It's basically the same page except a little less V-Lo for Logan Webb. Man, Mike King is twirling the pill seven innings zero earn against Pittsburgh 6.22 against the Mets
Starting point is 00:43:46 six innings six innings he's had some playoff outings let's see Dalt's got the side by side yeah I think Logan Webb's is a little more flashy but not by a ton interesting we had it totally right with the sinker change
Starting point is 00:44:07 slider yeah just a little bit more Velo for Mike King. My King, Mike King, 335. What's his ERA? 3233. And the arm angle, too? Are you kidding me with that? Mike King underrated 323 this year,
Starting point is 00:44:22 324 career ERA. No, we, I love. I mean, I feel like we get him. Properly rated? So fun to watch when he's on. I agree. I agree with you. I agree with me. This episode is sponsored by Seat Geek. Covering baseball every day means it's go time. MLB playoffs are around the corner.
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Starting point is 00:45:27 All right, I think we got one more in the chamber, one more game for us to play. We could do over-under or we could do 20 questions batting batters. Let's do over-under. Over-under? Yeah, we've chewed up a bit. Yeah, and so we could do who has the higher or just go straight over under on a number. Would you like to go a little head to head for these guys?
Starting point is 00:45:47 I like head to head. I like head to head. Sounds good. All right. This one's silly. Average launch angle. You got Ernie Clement or Christian Walker. Who has the higher average launch angle?
Starting point is 00:46:03 This isn't. Shout out Ernie Clement, Dinosauri Barbecue, Rochester, New York, Garbage, Blake King, but I think I'm going, Christian Walker. here. Launch angle. Christian Walker. Well, right? It is Ernie Clement.
Starting point is 00:46:16 Christian is, we get the launch angle up there, Pop. What are we doing? I guess this is 2026, right? Sure. Yes, 2020. Maybe Christian Walker has been better in prior years,
Starting point is 00:46:30 which I'm getting at the page right now. Christian Walker just hitting line drive home runs. Otherwise. So launch angle for him Is that launch angle sweet spot? Lowest in a season. Average launch angle. I don't know how you even, where do you even find that?
Starting point is 00:46:50 I think MLB Europe, I don't know. Daltz got it. It's down the sheet there. Stat cast batting statistics. Launch angle. Okay. All right. We got punked.
Starting point is 00:47:04 He's actually, he's on, he's on, he's lower this year, but never, last year was 16.9. Okay, so yeah, a little higher last year. I wonder. Okay. Whoa, okay. Yeah. All right, who's got a higher attack angle?
Starting point is 00:47:21 Kyle Schwerber or James Wood? Attack angle. I'm assuming relative to the body because that's one. Right. Two different bodies. I think Swarber has a like a flatter path. I picture him being flat, yes. And so like his attack angle to me would be higher.
Starting point is 00:47:41 So I will go Schwerber on this one. Yeah, that's the part I don't know. I don't understand what's considered higher. I picture James Wood swing. So the attack angle goes from one degree to about 20.7 degrees where the middle is 10. Yeah. I'm going Schwerber here. Okay.
Starting point is 00:48:01 And you guys are. Correct. Okay. Kyle Schwerber. It's a higher attack. Okay. You got it. You're all over it.
Starting point is 00:48:15 Yeah. Yeah. There we go. Here we go. Dailin Lyle or Jonathan Naranda. Who has the higher... Expected Wobo. Expected Woba.
Starting point is 00:48:29 Your favorite stat. I mean, Aranda... Did you do these or is this random? This is random. I could go... We could go... Okay, that's fine. I need to know that because, like, if you did it,
Starting point is 00:48:39 I feel like there'd be some more tricks in there. Oh, yeah. No, this is all. You don't think the computer's trying to get some tricks in on us. Sees us weak right now? We've only missed two this whole dang time. We have. Lyle hasn't played as much.
Starting point is 00:48:56 Randa's so good, but he's line-driving. I'm calling, I guess, expected woba. But that doesn't, it's not like it's like a separator. This is like how good of a hitter you are. I mean, this is one of the stats that hitters love to look at. Right. You'd think It's like their expected FIP
Starting point is 00:49:14 It's that you know That's what this is like for hitters So I think Aranda yeah Aranda is correct At 345 Dalyle at 321 Randa's so good So good
Starting point is 00:49:26 Stolen bases Oh Let's do How about we do Doubles between Jonathan Iranda and Austin Riley I feel like robin the computer And Cahootz
Starting point is 00:49:39 I'm sorry Austin Riley still looks like a velociraptor to me in the nicest way. No, no. It's fine. He's been featured on this program a lot. Young, thick, not as young. Who has more doubles this year?
Starting point is 00:49:54 I think Arand is having the better offensive year. He's a doubles guy. He seems like, yeah, he's gap to gap. Austin Riley, also I feel like has probably put up some doubles years. I don't think this year is his year in that regard. He's been in a tough. place all year. I think Aranda. Go Aranda.
Starting point is 00:50:14 Guys, I'm sorry, this is a trick question. Because they are, they are pushed. I almost threw that out there as a joke. With the average amount of doubles right now being 19. Wow. So, the one time, don't pick. I don't think that counts as a loss for us. No, we won't count that one as a loss.
Starting point is 00:50:35 I'll count it as a win. Yeah. Who has a higher? I remember looking at South Stewart's. I remember looking at his savant page and being completely floored by it. Because Caminero is also a sneaky contact guy. He's hitting around like 280. This is who has the higher whiff rate between Junior Camerro and Sal Stewart.
Starting point is 00:50:59 Gosh. Tough. We have one rookie and one guy who's probably younger than Sal Stewart. Oh, that's a fun game. Let's just do their age. I think it's Junior Caminero, dude. Yeah, I'm not sure. I would assume Stewart's younger?
Starting point is 00:51:18 Junior Canterra is 22. 22? I thought he's 23 now. Dalton's saying yes to 23. Which is South Stewart? 22 or 23? South Stewart's 22, born December 7th. Junior Camerro born July 5th, 2003.
Starting point is 00:51:36 So he's 23. South Stewart will be 23 in December. Wow. That's hilarious. Crazy. I'll go Caminero has the higher whiff rate I'm on that side as well
Starting point is 00:51:50 Well Tye again Sal Stewart has the higher riff rate at 27% I want to look at the savant page Which one? Stuart I remember looking at me like wow This is a really impressive one Okay
Starting point is 00:52:07 By the way Junior Caminero Who turned 23 in July as we mentioned. 35 home runs, 278, 365. This is his first on base season. 896 OPS.
Starting point is 00:52:25 My goodness. And what does he have in common with Trevor Plouffe? Tampa Bay Ray. That's one thing. That's one thing. Four letters. G.IDP.
Starting point is 00:52:40 Leading it, huh? Led last year. leading again this year. You gotta be righty and hit it real hard. People must have hated watching me hit that year, whatever it was, because I watched Zach Gelloff grounded at two. And I'm like, that's just miserable, man. What a rally killer. That's a bad. Growning into double play and fouling out. We're always fouling out. You know what they say about-sick to be sick, dude. What they say about grounding into double play is you have to hit the ball hard to be person.
Starting point is 00:53:13 Yeah, just said, just said it. You did? Okay. Maybe one more and then some bad things. Maybe one more and then some bad things. This is tough.
Starting point is 00:53:24 Here is this one. Jordan, who has the higher batting average? Jordan Walker or Josh Naylor? Josh Naylor fighting back. You seen what's going on in Seattle the past couple nights?
Starting point is 00:53:37 Cal Raleigh. I'm loving it, coach. I need them to make the freaking playoffs where I look like just such a, a bad baseball guy. In my head, I'm going to think this isn't tricky. Give me Jordan Walker. Well, you are correct.
Starting point is 00:53:57 It is Jordan Walker at 285. The league average is 249. I did not have Josh Naylor hitting 271. I thought it would be lower than that. Has he gone nuts? Like, what are the Josh Naylor splits here? Game log. Splits.
Starting point is 00:54:14 Josh Naylor. Let's see. We're hitting lefties better than righties this year. That's always interesting to me. Second half, 323, 377, 789 OPS. So it hasn't been a pop year from Naylor. Only 10 homers on the season, but he has been since. Like, Cal is getting hot now too.
Starting point is 00:54:35 Like hitting some homers. What's, okay, best Josh Naylor split I can give you. I think it's if you just straight cut out April. which means for 95 games he's been 289 347 just yeah 381 slug so the pop hasn't been there but now if that's starting to come what is going on in the great northwest got 25 stolen bases again too what a sick puppy nuts what a sick puppy all right that was games with rob everyone in the comments shout out to rob dahl chris grim uh a snob sneaky Johnboy Media guy guy.
Starting point is 00:55:17 All right, MLB just came out with their top 10 batting stances of all time. I think we lay them out there. I think we do some agree or disagree, some things we should shuffle, and then one or two that stand out to us. So who do we got, Bob? I guess let's reveal it and let's look at some. Number one, we got none other than Mr. Gary Sheffield. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:55:42 I got a question. How has no one else ever done it? The waggle? You know, it's funny. Like this is a stance where you're like, hey, if you want to hit the ball as hard as you can, you start to look like this. You start to do stuff like that.
Starting point is 00:56:07 But I think it's just the hand-eye coordination to do this on a consistent basis is off the charts. So a lot of guys now, I mean, you look at guys around the league now, it's like very little movement. It's,
Starting point is 00:56:22 yeah, it's minimum movement. Yeah. It's a very, very special player to be able to move your hands like that. Now, a wiffle ball backyard,
Starting point is 00:56:31 everyone's done that. Like, do you still do that? Because like when we were... You see stuff like that, like in the youth baseball world, because guys aren't throwing hard. But even like backyard, whiffleball, blitzball,
Starting point is 00:56:49 like, because we knew who Gary Sheffield was. Like, I don't, in the nicest way to one of the coolest guys ever. Like, I don't think, I don't think the nine-year-olds playing Blitzball right now are like, let me copy Gary Sheffield stance. I hope I'm wrong. Yeah, I don't think they know who, I don't think they're like, yeah, this is Gary Sheffield, let me do it. but I do think guys still will be a little wippy.
Starting point is 00:57:14 Okay. Yeah. Okay. Number two on the list. Ichiro. Yeah. Iconic. Iconic.
Starting point is 00:57:22 Now, people used to do this. I don't think anybody's doing that anymore. If you're talking whiffle ball backyard. Yeah. The shoulder. Yeah. Have you seen, I shouldn't say probably haven't. There's a Yankees minor league guy that's like each rowing to the next level.
Starting point is 00:57:41 like he's literally he's playing softball yeah I saw that's very impressive you'll do that with the what guys can throw up there now yeah but each real only did that like every once in a while he wasn't like he was always slapping it around like it just kind of like depended on who was on the mound what his defense was this guy man I'm telling you
Starting point is 00:58:01 I played I think he's with the Marlins at the time maybe and um maybe a ground ball either at shortstop or at third I forget where I was playing at the time but he could still go and get down the line. Like get down the freaking line. A lot of it is because, yes, he was already out of the box when he made contact,
Starting point is 00:58:21 but he could still freaking run, dude. He's, again, if you're, if you're one of our new age listeners and you don't know about each row, like, big facts. Like, that dude was insane. The way that we're like, when Otani came over and we're like, this guy's special. Like, you know, like, obviously he didn't pitch, but like we thought about each row,
Starting point is 00:58:45 almost the exact same way we thought about Otani because he was leading the league and hits. And just was like, he actually played the game different than like, we'd never seen someone like that. So it's very similar to like what we talked about in Otani. Like no one's ever done it. No one ever played the game like each row, especially in the States, until he came over. The defense. Oh, my, the arm.
Starting point is 00:59:09 Silly. Okay. Number three is none other than Craig counsel. How about that? I thought we'd get a kangrophy junior here. I mean, this is a unique stance. This is a unique stance. Yeah, it's one of those that, again, someone in the backyard starts doing that.
Starting point is 00:59:28 I guess we instantly used to jump to Craig Counsel. Again, I'm starting to think, I guess Ryan Cohen's a Craig Counsel guy, and he's what, 17 years old, 18 years old? No batting those, by the fun fact. My first ever game in the big leagues, I got a knock to left field first to bat, and the person that threw the ball into the dugout for me, playing third base for the Brewers? Great counsel.
Starting point is 00:59:53 Sounds like Craig Counsel. Unrelated to any of this, Mickey Gasper, two ding-dongs last night. Watch out. Red Sox. Let's start chewing through a little more, Bobo. All right. Julio Franco is number four on the list.
Starting point is 01:00:09 Legend. Legend. 70 years old in this video. Still hitting. I don't know where in the world he is, but he's still hitting. Tony. He's from Kangraffi Jr. At number five.
Starting point is 01:00:22 Tony Batta. Yeah. I think these are just like kind of iconic batting stances that are. I mean, that's against. It's against Roger Clemens people. I was in spring training with Tony Battista. Did you have him as a twin ever? Yes, bro.
Starting point is 01:00:38 I mean, this was arguably the stance we did in the backyard the most growing up. Crazy. Crazy. Number six, Jeff Bagwell. I'll say this. I keep olding myself a little bit. Also, my batting stances I'm going to bring up old to me a little bit. Appreciating Bagwell being that crouched is nuts.
Starting point is 01:01:07 Give me a side view of it. Oh, gosh. Like his knees and. in hammies and quads. Hey, if you want to see the ball, look at that. That's what you do. That's what you do.
Starting point is 01:01:18 What? If I'm two strike approaching it, baby, spread out, keep my head still, put the barrel to the ball. Oh, 500 ding-dongs, not bad. Not bad. How were his knees today? I want to know that.
Starting point is 01:01:34 I don't. Dude, there was one of the tall umps last night. Felt bad for him. He was getting down for each pitch. I don't think it was Jordan Baker. I think there's another tall lump. And boy, he was, I felt bad for his knees, but appreciate the grind, dude. Don't have his name.
Starting point is 01:01:52 Yanks. Number seven, Oscar Gamble. Sure. Absolutely. Hunched over man. Do that again? Oh, gosh. I mean, that's, that's, I bet if you look back at the time of that, when this was, there's a lot of
Starting point is 01:02:10 guys crouched over like that. Rod Karoo got down that way. You know, that's kind of, that's an old school bad sense. Hey, get your head on the level of the ball. I can see it better. Put your head right in there. Yeah. A little easier.
Starting point is 01:02:22 You know, you see something better. Get close to it. Throwing an 88. Okay. Number eight is Sadaharu. Oh, absolutely. Yeah, good one. Big leg kick.
Starting point is 01:02:34 Boom. Put it there. I mean, that's Aaron Judge Swing. My home run champ. Number nine, Kevin Euculus. Sure. Yeah. This is another wiffle ball swing.
Starting point is 01:02:49 I don't think guys are doing that anymore, but. Playing the flu. Yeah, you know, he has a brewery. He became a brewer. How about that? Checks out. Is it Petaluma Brewing Company? Shout out.
Starting point is 01:03:01 Shout out if that is. Or Loma? Or Loma? Maybe Loma. I don't know, yeah. Shout out Kevin Euclis, like him. And number 10 is Mr. Eric Davis.
Starting point is 01:03:13 Yeah. Yeah. And slow. The way Chris Rose lights up whenever he sees Eric Davis at an MLB event. I want that. I mean, that is just straight up. Bring it here. Motherfucker.
Starting point is 01:03:29 I'm better than you. Like that swing is just, I'm better than you. And he was. I have two guys that I want to bring up. Okay. That I think should have been on this. Number one, Ken Griffey Jr. I don't know how that's not on there.
Starting point is 01:03:41 Like that's maybe the most iconic swing of our childhood. Yeah. Between Gary Sheffield and Ken Griffey Jr. Yeah, because he had a little of the waggon. Yeah. The bat circle to me. And then on roll mention, because this is not a singular batting stance,
Starting point is 01:04:00 Cal Ripkin Jr. People forget how many times he changed his swing. He went down to the bat like just like this. Yeah. He would change. He has 20 different stances. Yes. like throughout the season
Starting point is 01:04:13 he would have a bunch of different bags and just constantly teakering and hitting the ball which is also just like dude maybe you're a lot better than everyone like if you can do any stance and hit I don't know yeah stud man the two that jumped out to me let's see one's a little off the deep end one is another stance that
Starting point is 01:04:38 again playing wiffle ball and stuff growing up blitzball shout out um Sammy so with the arms out and all-time toe-tapper. Yeah. Good toe tap. The neck pinned on the shoulder and just like... And the hop. The hop, which should count, right?
Starting point is 01:04:58 By the way, the hop was like controversial. Yes. Like, oh, he's hopping on me? He didn't just hop on me, did he? Yeah, dude, he did hop on. And now guys are just, you know, freaking eighth inning down 10 runs. runs you hit a home or these guys are just doing silly stuff around the basis. That's a little too young Sammy.
Starting point is 01:05:18 Give me the old thick Sammy. I don't want my Sammy Sosa stealing bags. It's really funny. You start thinking about like, you know, get off my lawn type guys, but like I don't know what I'm trying to say right now. Like the game has changed so much. So much.
Starting point is 01:05:41 The other swing that I just liked. And I was looking at highlights Because I was like, did I like that swing on? David Justice He had a nice little gentle leg kick, especially on the Yankees. And I was always like, that's pretty badass. And he was nasty with the Yankees
Starting point is 01:06:00 And just like a cool guy. A little kick right there? Yeah, right? Like, how are you hitting a baseball doing that? So, yeah, that's what I got. And as we should, there's two things. We need to do because it's Wednesday. Shout out to Kevin Euclis, Loma Brewing Company.
Starting point is 01:06:18 So no free ads, but we're happy for him. It's time to look at some future baseball markets presented by Fanatics. Markets. We're going to start out right here, Coach. My Yanks, your stroes, the new look stroes, moved into first place in the AL West last night. Yanks throwing Elmer Rodriguez out there as Max Fried's getting back and weather's dessert. I don't know, Trev, tell me something good. For who?
Starting point is 01:06:48 You know, Peter Lambert, tough start last outing, but before that, he had nine earned runs and three and two thirds. Last start before that was dialed in with his last eight starts. You did get Cody Bellinger back for the Yanks hit his first home run since June 17th. So I don't know who I'm rooting for here,
Starting point is 01:07:08 to be honest with you, Bob. I've got a Luis Garcia Jr. player comp I stumbled into that I'm going to say for talking yanks. That's how you get people on the hook. The other game we're looking at, Trev, it's for the birds. Orioles, Cardinals, Kyle trying to be Braddish, even though he hasn't won in a while. Michael McGreevy, a couple teams with postseason hopes somehow.
Starting point is 01:07:30 What do you see? I see a couple teams trying to stay in it. Alec Berluson still doing his thing with some respect on his name. We've got an 11 game hit streak going on, but the Cardinals lost five at the last six. Orioles kind of going the other way because their pitching has been good. They won three of their last four
Starting point is 01:07:51 because they haven't really allowed many runs during that time. So it's going to be an interesting matchup here. I mean, your cards are still in it. My cards are alive. Burleson 4 RBI away from 100 on the year. And I know he's a guy I've been bringing up every episode, but Pete is out of his dome right. now.
Starting point is 01:08:12 They're five games out, so maybe they're not in it. It's, I know it's getting tough. Go check it all out. Fanatics markets available now in the app stores. Contracts carry risk of total loss and changing prices. Not good for all investors. Not available in all states. Must be 21 plus see important disclosures in Fanatics Markets of App.
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