The Josh Innes Show - Fat Baseball Players

Episode Date: August 26, 2025

Drew Sommers was just called up to pitch for the Tigers. He's fat. That's ok. I'm fat too. I am put off by the fact that he's obviously lying about his weight... Who are the fattest players ever? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Like he looks like Chad Brock. No one's going to understand the Chad Brock reference, probably. But Chad Brock used to have like a goatee and was kind of a fatter dude. And that's kind of the look he's got going on about him, does this Drew Summers. But I love the fact that we have a fat baseball player here. In fact, he's appeared now in two games since he was called up. He gave up a home run last night. I didn't see it because the fucking baseball game is at 10.05.

They're playing in Sacramento against the A's in a minor league baseball park. And the damn game starts at 10.05. You might say to yourself, well, Josh, the people on the West Coast, they're getting to see it at 7. Let's be real. There are no A's fans. A's fans don't exist. You should have started the game at 5 o'clock West Coast and started the game here at like 8. You had Tarek's scoble pitch.

This is a rant that I didn't anticipate going on in this podcast, but I'm going to go on this rant anyway. It's 10.05. You've got one of the best pitchers in baseball going on the hill. God, it's probably going to win another Cy Young. I'd say it's probable at this point that he wins another Cy Young. this year. It's 10.05, and the people that would most want to see him are not in Oakland or Sacramento or Vegas,

because none of these people give a shit about the A's. You think Oakland cares about the A's? They took the team from them, and they've got them playing in a minor league ballpark in Sacramento. Oakland doesn't give a shit. Sacramento apparently has already lost interest. They sold out a bunch of games early, and then everybody was like,

well, that was just the A's playing in a minor league ballpark, and then the fucking A's. So who cares? The people that would care most about watching Tarek's scoble pitch are in Detroit. I don't give a, full on, I do not give a shit about whether or not Sacramento got to see that game at 5 or at 7 o'clock West. Give me that game as early as you can here because 10.05 is a waste for the East Coast, who cares more about baseball than the West Coast. and for Detroit, who cares a lot more about watching that game, a team in a pennant chase, and Terrick Scoobble pitching, 10.05 is a fucking outrage.

Now that I said that, let's play a few commercials, and let's get into some fat baseball players. So one thing about this Drew Summers, if you want to look him up, and I would urge you to while you listen to this, it's Summers S-O-M-M-E-R-S. On his baseball reference page, it claims that he's 250 pounds, which would be an indicator that on the team roster, he must be 250 pounds. I will take a look at this just to be sure. The last I checked was yesterday. And I was floored by the fact that this gentleman claims to be 6.3.250. Because I'm 6.3.3.3. And in certain lights, I think I look thinner than this guy. Detroit Tigers roster.

Now I've got to see Drew Summers. And let's see how he's listed on the roster. Drew Summers. Doesn't even have a picture. 6.3.250 is how he's listed. So you want me to believe that this dude is only 20 pounds heavier than one of your relievers, Tommy Canely. You want me to believe that? You want me to believe that he's only 20? Okay. You want me to believe that this dude is only 25 pounds heavier than Jack Flaherty. And Jack Flaherty is like a, not lanky, but he's a thinner dude. You want me to believe that Jack Flaherty, who's 6.4-225, you want me to believe that Drew Summers is 6-3-250. That is a crock of shit, and you know it's a crock of shit. I am being lied to by all of these people. And everyone

knows you lie on like the roster, right? When I was in high school playing basketball, I'm like six foot two, probably. But, you know, I'm six foot two. I say I'm six foot three. The roster says I'm six foot five. You know, that's just, that's what you do on the roster. You thin yourself up a little bit. You make yourself a little bit taller. You know, it makes you more imposing, I guess. Like, I was 6'4, I guess. Like, that's how I was listed in our high school roster. In reality, I'm probably closer to 6-2 than 6-3, but I call myself 6-3. I weigh 321 pounds, although I've probably lost some because I started taking the Manjaro a couple of weeks ago, so I feel a little bit better. I feel like I've lost some weight. This dude is not 250 pounds.

not close to 250 pounds. This guy probably hasn't been 250 pounds since high school. Because I'll tell you this. When I got to Houston, the first time I weighed 286, I went to one of the quick weight loss is what it was called. And I went in for a consultation and they hand you like this big fake yellow thing that looks like a big thing of fat. They're like, this is 10 pounds of fat.

And this is, you're going to lose this 10 pounds of fat. And when I weighed, I was 286. That was 40-something pounds ago, 37 pounds ago. Okay. I think I've gotten as heavy as like 340 something. Like I've had some fatness. I think when I got to Philly the first time I was in like the 340s, I eventually got down. Actually, one of my proudest accomplishments was without taking any sort of medications and you know, GLP ones and shit in Philly. I lost like 40 something pounds just by eating better. Like I know that it's possible. I would only snack on like peanut butter crackers and shit like that. And I got down. I said my goal is to get down to like in the 270s. One day I wait. I weighed myself and I was like 278 and I said, fuck it, I've done it. And then I gained it all fucking back. But I did it. I lost like 40 pounds on my own.

No medications for it, whatever. But I was 286 when I got to Houston. Then I got on this quick weight loss and I got down to about 255. It was the thinnest I've been was 255. And if you look at pictures of me from when I was 255, I looked pretty fucking thin. Like I looked pretty good. okay i obviously was like fat guy skinny like i was still fat but like i looked thinner and i could wear shirts that were two x sometimes i could fit into an extra large like i i was doing pretty good

i was six foot two 250 look at a picture of josh at six foot two 250 and look at a picture of drew summers at six foot three 250 there is no fucking way not that any of you care but it just bothers me. Like, bro, embrace it. Like, it'd be a cooler story if you were, like, a 300 pound baseball player. Like, what did David Wells list himself as? David Wells

pitcher. Let's see what David Wells listed himself as on baseball reference. His was six... Oh, for fuck's sake. David Wells was listed as 6.3 187. If you buy that, I got some fucking ocean front

property chief. David Wells fat ass was not six three one eighty seven maybe when he was shot out of the womb he was six three one eighty seven and certainly at the end of the road for david wells that was a big motherfucker six three 180 go fuck yourself six three one eighty seven on david wells that's that's a clown uh let's go with bartolo cologne let's see what he was listed as on baseball reference You know this motherfucker ain't 6-3-186. 5-11-285. That's fucking honesty for this Chico-Marx-looking motherfucker.

5-11-285. That's honesty. We need more honesty from people. 511-285. You want me to believe that David Wells was 100 pounds less than Bartolo Colon? Get the fuck out of Dodge with that garbage. Come on. Like I was born on a day, but it wasn't yesterday, baseball reference, or David Wells.

So if you had to guess who the fattest baseball player, the heaviest baseball player of all time is, I will give you a few seconds to think about it, but you will never guess it because it's a guy who played like two games ever. Maybe a few more than that. But didn't play that long. Had like one brief moment in the league. I'll give you a few seconds. Maybe you'll know it. I'm going to doubt it.

I'm going to say the odds of you knowing this are slim. to none. But I'll let you think about it for a second. The answer is Walter Young. He was 322 pounds and was the heaviest Major League Baseball player in history. He was briefly with the Baltimore Orioles in 2005. He did hit a home run and hit 303 for that short amount of time. But he was a minor league guy for most of his life. then he uh shocker a guy that was 322 a major league baseball died of a heart attack at age 35 so he didn't live long but that was a big boy let's see here cc would be the second heaviest he was 300 but keep in mind that cc was listed at six six that's a big dude is a hulking figure now you look at cc and he's a lot leaner but when he was playing which is wild to think but like dude was fatter when he played 300 pounds but part of being 300 pounds like six six you're going to do that a lot of the time jumbo brown weighed 295 pounds with a name like jumbo you would think he'd actually be thin because that's kind of like one of those ironic nicknames but no he was considered the heaviest player to play in the league by weighing as high as 295 brown's weight gain was due to the removal of his tonsils nonetheless brown still carved out a 12 year career which saw him tally a 33 and 31 record and an er a 4.07 helping the yankees win two world series championships

and he was playing with Babe Ruth, who was actually not that fat. Like, people think of Babe Ruth as like, oh, this guy was the fat guy. He went to C.C. Sabathia fat. Let's see what Babe Ruth's plain weight was listed as. 6-2-215. And if you look at actual pictures of Babe Ruth, like, he's thick, but he actually just looks like a guy that's not in good shape. But he looks more like beer fat, which would make sense. It's like he was a fat dude, but it's not like you look at Babe Ruth and go,

okay, that guy's like morbidly obese, right? Like Bartolo Colon, you look at and you go, okay, the BMI doesn't like him. But I think Babe Ruth gets this rep as being a fat guy. And like, I don't see, and they wore like baggy your pants and stuff. If I got a bold take, here's my hot take. If baseball players wore more form-fitting shit in the 20s and 30s, Babe Ruth would look like Kyle Schwerber. That is my bold statement for the day.

If they wore tighter clothes in the 20s and 30s, we would look at Babe Ruth like we look at Kyle Schwerber. Although Kyle Schwerber has obviously lost some weight, but like Kyle Schwerber before Kyle Schwerber lost weight and became like a prolific leadoff hitter. Kyle Schwerber weight loss. I want to see it before and after of Kyle Schwaber. Let's see here. I'm talking like Cubs Kyle Schwarber. Like we would look at Babe Ruth like we look at Cubs Kyle Schwarber. That's my bold statement for this morning.

But instead, like they wore all these baggy pants and shit. So it made, like he did not wear flattering baseball clothes. If he wore form fitting baseball clothes, Babe Ruth would have just looked a little bit thick. Left-handed stroke, Kyle Schwaber. That's my take of the day. Other fat baseball players. Dmitri Young.

Demetri Young started with the Cardinals, and he was thick then. Apparently, Dimitri Young got all the way up to $2.95. Jeff Fulchino was at 286. He pitched for the Astros and the Royals and the Marlins. Prince Fielder. See, my thought would have been the Fielder's. But you know that Cecil is only listed at like 240 or 230, like, okay, go fuck yourself. You want to tell me that Cecil Fielder's plane weight was 230?

Now, granted, he wasn't very tall, I don't think. Or it's kind of like Kirby Puckett. Kirby Puckett wasn't very tall. So Kirby Puckett, do you see how fat Kirby Puckett got before he went blind and died? Like, this is what Kirby Puckett looked like when he was sexually harassing women in restaurant bathrooms. Had like one eye, was morbidly obese. Bartolo was 285. Jonathan, I forgot about Jonathan Broxton.

285. Yeah, so there's some of the guys that fall into the fat dude category. but all that to say that Drew Summers, who is now a pitcher for the lions, the Tigers claims that he is only 250. And that is a lie, and I will not let this go. I think you need to embrace it, brother. Like, who are you fucking with? Who you crappin?

Like, I can get, like, when you're in high school and it's embarrassing to be fat, so you want to lie and, like, kind of lower your weight a little bit. If you're a woman, you want to lower your weight. Come on. don't bullshit a bullshitter drew