 Hello and welcome to talking baseball episode three July 22nd We got the NL and ale reports. We're gonna catch you up on all the action from the weekend We got a bunch of trade targets a bunch of teams looking to get those trade targets talk about what we think about all that Elevator talk slump watch in fuego and the rest. We're excited. Let's go All right, well, well soundboard still not here so for the live viewers on patreon I apologize about that But we are very excited to be doing this show again every Monday every Friday. You guys did it. I Thought I asked for about 50 reviews. I said first 50 get stickers I think we're sitting over 200 right now Jake. It was impressive as hell. You guys are the best Got us into the top five on the itunes sports list We couldn't be any more thankful grateful and proud of the community and everyone so hopefully we get another great fantastic show Jake is coming to you from a bender he's playing he's playing of like Wish it was a bender gut game. I wish it was a bender. I'm just on that travel mode man reverse travel life Going east coast to west coast gets a little gnarly, especially you work in a couple delays, but Poppy Gordo got in at about 4 a.m. Last night feeling good got the dog from doggie daycare I hadn't seen him in like 13 days So we we said our pleasantries. He's asleep. He's very asleep. He was at dog camp having a good time So he's actually probably pissed to be here Jim the top five thing is bizarre because baseball is not popular anymore. That's what I've been told So I mean having having a Yankees podcast hit number two and then just a talk in baseball podcast at five I just I just doesn't add up to me, but no, it's um, it's awesome and Thank thanks everyone. We we had a pretty cool couple of days. Yeah Come couple couple moments in the past few years where you definitely have tough days and you're like what what is this and Something like that makes it all worthwhile Especially I I saw some family and friends and they were all over the moon for me And I know that's some of the best part of it for both of us And if when all of you guys follow us and tweeted us and do all that you kind of become our friends We have this network a Yankee like pseudo online friends that we've met and some of them have become real-life friends And we're excited to do that around the league. Yep. So we thank you I was gonna say something but now I forget we got a lot of baseball to discuss I was gonna say I think the goal is to go live Live for Patreons at 10 o'clock Eastern time every Monday and Friday. We're a bit late today But like we said Jake's travel schedule is insane. So just happy to have him gutting us out with us I'm in a travel bender not a drinking bender. I know that's what I'm saying. I wish it was a real bender. Yeah Although I saw you having some beers at the airport I'd of course like I had it I had a beer or two with dinner Almost law if your friend gets delayed. Yeah, I mean Bradley Bradley International They got a new lounge and there was a group on deal and says I meant I mean drinks and stuff So yeah, whatever. Yeah, you got to you got to So are we doing Jim? I'm good. I'm excited today's uh, like back to normal In the office intern Luke's here. I got up at 7 a.m. Because I I know that once we start this We have four shows to record and edit and all that and I wanted to Get some breakdowns out beforehand. I was on Dazzone last night talking baseball with Sessa's family barbecue That was exciting. So things are going good. It's been wild I know a lot of the YouTube crowd was like, why'd you stop doing breakdowns? They're coming. I do apologize slow down a bit. It was a Wild weekend. Yeah, it's like seven interviews, which is good for everything. We're doing here. So I couldn't couldn't turn them down You if you want to watch live and talk in the chat live We are hosting that on patreon patreon.com slash Johnboy media and I think I'm gonna start shouting out new patrons Jake and At the end of this episode all the patrons we already have which is gonna be a mouthful We'll do it at the end. Yeah in the future I want to shout out all the new patrons at the beginning. They will be sponsoring the episodes for now That's what I want to do. What's that patreon link Jim patreon.com Slash Johnboy media boom boom. All right. Here we go Let's get right into it Jake the NL and the AL report you can go first with the NL report Jake What happened? Can you tell us? Jimmy Jimmy welcome to Atlanta where the players play they the Bravo's take two out of three from the Nats Including a walk-off in the first game by bringer of rain Josh Donaldson and Kevin Gossman returns from the IL throws a nice start on The final game of the series the fight in fills win the Sunday game versus Pittsburgh Two to one in eleven innings to take the rubber match of the three game set on the road the Mets Oh my put on an exhibition on how to lose Jim quantity three extra innings losses to Los Jibiraj Hantes they won the other game So very Mets we're gonna be talking about them and the Florida fishies aka the Miami Marlins They get swept by the Dodgers and that's obvious the Cubs and L central They win games one and two both with six to five scores How about that drop the final game to the Padres in Wrigley the brew crew take three four in the desert against Arizona Big Tyler Saladino Grand Slam on Sunday Jim Tyler Saladino huh card stake three out of four at Great American ballpark against the Reds including a 12-11 game where they scored ten runs in the sixth Jim and then in the West you heard the Dodgers swept you heard Zona drop three or four You heard San Francisco embarrassed the Mets or the Mets just embarrass themselves the Padres lost a set to the Cubs The only team missing is my Rockies. They were searching for rock bottom They found it on Saturday after two losses to the Yankees. They salvaged it with a Sunday win Lot of fun stuff Lot of fun stuff There wasn't any like major headlines for many games and in the even in the AL like we have trade talks coming But last last episode it was like the Phillies and Dodgers were heated non-stop Boone gave us a huge headline Like we didn't have any of that this weekend but we did have some Some interesting stuff the Cubs win they need to start running away But the Dodgers though the Brewers take three or four. So that's gonna be close They're only two games back now in the NL central And I think the Brewers are gonna be gonna be on their tail. If not, they catch up at some point Yeah, I mean you're I mean when you're in that two-game flight zone, that's nothing in baseball That's I mean if you play each other that could be gone in a day and a half So the the NL central is getting a little exciting. We'll we'll see who else ends up falling into that race a little bit Jim, I don't know it. You're kind it's kind of funny And I think we're gonna talk about it when we get to in Fuego And things like that there wasn't there wasn't a huge a lot of like beastly Individual performances on offense. No one had like a three-home or weekend. Yeah, I was searching Yeah, it was just kind of what it's not like a bad weekend But it was just like here's baseball there No one ran away with like you need to talk about meat a team or a player really There's some pitching performances that were really good. We'll get into that Just a quick update the the Brewers and the Cubs. They play each other next weekend shake Yeah, so that's a if the Cubs if the Cubs The Cubs lose this series this upcoming series. I don't know who they're playing the Brewers are playing the Reds The Cubs are playing the Giants who are really hot. So say the Giants take two of three from the Cubs and The Brewers take two of three from the Reds This next weekend that Brewers Cubs series. That's gonna be a huge huge series. That's exciting Yeah, and it's I mean St. Louis is very much there I don't want any of our cardinal listeners to turn it off They're I mean they're half a game back in Milwaukee. So so the NL central is kind of fully Heated up the Giants. I mean that's that's an incredible other story going on The Mets go met in incredible fashion. Oh, that series is insane Almost unbelievable from the seagulls flocking around in the 16th inning to the drop ball I mean it's It's what do you do if you're a Mets fan? What do you do? So I posted the breakdown this morning on that drop ball by Dom Smith and left field and Big baby David who writes for us over at Johnboymedia.com He he writes a little write-up on all my breakdowns and gets them on the website So if you ever want like a full conglomerate of where all the breakdowns were and some extra thoughts Go go check out Johnboymedia.com and I didn't even know this which is bad on my part But Dom Smith and Rosario teamed up for the same exact Dropped ball last season 11 months ago and Kutch scored the winning run for the Giants They both went back for that ball in between them ran into each other They didn't run into each other this time, but that's incredible. It's just so Mets. I feel bad for the Mets. I would I Don't know if I could be a Mets fan. Oh Interesting that's it. That's a good question. That's me Is that like the final boss level of being a baseball fan you have to go through one year as a full Mets fan Yeah, I You know how like when Giancarlo Stan got traded from Miami to Yankee Stadium in his opening press conference. They asked you have any Do you have any like advice for Marlins fans that have seen all these players get traded away? It was like still be a fan, but be a fan from afar for a couple years Don't really invest too much into it. That's how like that's how I live as a Mets fan That's uh, I'd say I live that way as a Knicks fan But once that first game tips off, I say well, maybe they'll get the seventh seed. Yeah, same thing Yeah, I don't have I don't have a team that does that to me like you do with the Knicks and Mets fans do Yeah, it's it keeps it keeps you in check. I guess Yeah, and I don't know we had that I mean the two top teams in the NL East played each other the Braves I mean they keep passing each test the Donaldson walk-off helps and Gossman coming off the IL I'm not sure. I'm not sure what else is jumping off to me right now Philly and st. Louis are half games out of the wild card technically so that I the NL races I think officially we were wondering we were doing some of the trade deadline stuff And we were like is this is this gonna sort itself out? How's this gonna get we've kind of got our fun teams in a bunch there for sure Papadres the Rockies the Pirates the Mets the Reds before the break they all were still somewhat in it Yeah, I don't like I don't want to be mean to fan bases but in my opinion they are dropped and the Diamondbacks the Phillies the Cardinals Brewers Nats are the wild card hunt teams and I think we will see it slim down and down as we go Yeah, you wonder I mean Arizona, San Francisco you feel like both I mean they're both 500 right now a hundred games in a season. That's a now. That's baseball Susan You wonder We keep talking about how big these final weeks aren't I heard Buster only talking about it on the Ryan Racillo podcast it is funny that baseball This is the one time of year small sample size matters And I think we'll we'll get into that with mad bum start a little bit But I think for now maybe shoot should we get to the ale Jim? Yeah, you want to pop over see what see what happened? I got it give you the the intro trombone. Yeah, give me the intro trombone Usually we have a soundboard guys my laptop is broken the soundboards usually a lot of fun We currently don't have a soundboard. I'm sorry So now it's just 50 minutes of me playing attack of the slide trombones No, your ale report brought to you by Jimmer John Boy for debt Wow Nice all right the twins in the a split a four game set The twins winning the last game via walk-off the twins were in not a real slide But somewhat of a slide the walk-off leads them into a series versus the Yankees Which is gonna be very nice for them Baltimore takes two of three from the Red Sox I repeat Baltimore took two of three from the Red Sox Cachner lost to start versus his old club and the pitcher that's kind of somewhat replacing one of the open spots and The Orioles lineup had a big game big-time yikes for the Sox the test that they have coming up is incredible I'll get to that afterwards the Yankees played the Rockies as Jake said and the Yankees won the first two games in Game two the Rockies hit the most rock bottom you can bud block got ejected in like didn't even put up a fight It was a sad ejection. They had sad fielding everything was sad They do come back in the third game and try to start a little better Stuff we'll see we'll see how it goes. I still think they're out of it But at least they they came up for the third game the Royals and the Indians squared off and Cleveland Won game three to take the series that would have been a bad loss for this Indians team Who's currently on the hunt, but they win the series so it's good for them The Blue Jays and the Tigers squared off in a series that no one cares about But Detroit avoids the sweep with a 10th inning win over the Blue Jays Mark just Marcus Strowman pitched in front of eight scouts. They say he is on display Vogelback had a big game. Wait, is that the correct? Maybe I put that in the wrong spot the White Sox and the Reyes squared off and the White Sox won the first two games the Reyes just keep Going on a little downslide They blew the save in game two to lose in 11 innings the Reyes won the last game though to not get swept But the Reyes kind of lose some ground they do lose ground and they're kind of faltering right now The Astros swept the Rangers Which the Rangers came out of the break playing terrible? They they're looking like they're out of it the Angels and the Mariners Played in the West tied up one game apiece But the Angels win game three to win the series and that is your AL report the East The East is big gap Yankees are eight games up. I think now nine games up By taking three or four from the Reyes and then the Reyes losing two games to the White Sox Boston did not help themselves by losing the series So there are 11 games back and the Cleveland's jumping up on the on the twins Jake The twins went two and four in the series Cleveland took one their series. There are only three games back now I'd be a little scared if I was the twins I'd be a little scared because I don't think Cleveland's a joke Yeah, I think the bigger thing is because I think the twins you're still in a good place for the playoffs You are four and six on your last ten and you're welcoming the Yankees to town. So this is coming up This will be a big test and a fun matchup Yankees twins in Minnesota that that should be good some good baseball Yeah, Cleveland's coming the I don't say a lot of good stuff as people are starting to figure out on this show But when I said I was buying stock in Cleveland a couple weeks ago It's adding up and I think it's hilarious that they still have Trevor Bauer on the trade block Like you just can't do that I Understand you could get a little more for him now than if you trade him in the off-season because you can't pay him But you're you're you are in the playoff run and like Clubers coming back like you can't send that message to your team What do you think they have him on the trade block or just reporters are saying he make it because I Don't think they've ever had him on the trading block I think there was a time when they did because they they've openly said as a franchise like we can't Resign this guy so they say that about all their stars It's so it's like not a fun thing that their GM constantly says. Yeah, maybe stop saying it to him so much Didn't he basically say enjoy Lindor because there's no way we're gonna be able to resign him Something along those lines, which I I know they're a middle mark. Yeah, I don't know I won't go on a Cleveland rant there, but they're uh, they're playing good baseball There's gonna be some fun some fun ale central games between them. We talked about that last time You're right. This Minnesota Yankees series just got a lot more exciting for me Well, check this out. Okay, check this out Jake The twins next series is against the Yankees, right? Right tough then four games versus the White Sox Which I'll say this the White Sox have dropped down a little bit But they just played the raise tough and a four game set. They're tough four game sets are tough I feel like majority of the time they get split On the other hand the Indians have three games versus Toronto Who may be trading pieces away? They might be more preoccupied with who's getting traded away than winning at the current game and Then they have four games versus the Kansas City Royals. So we're two series away Potentially from the Indians and twins having a real close race with a strength of schedule kind of being on opposite sides here Yeah, and that's I mean that's that's what's going on in the central gym I think the other team we have to talk about and you're saying there's there's not a lot of major headlines The rays are in a bad way right now, man. Yeah ever since I know you and their Their personal rays Twitter account have had your feuds in their days But there's something like that that day they came out with the tweet that was like over the past 162 we got the best record in the east I think ever since that tweet they're below 500 and like significantly. I'm not blaming the rays Twitter person I will it's the worst. Listen. I'm not I don't even say this as a joke. This is my serious voice a Lot of people like to say that what we're doing is fun for baseball Right. I may be being a bit of a jerk here. What the rays Twitter is doing is bad for baseball They need to fire the person that runs that account. It's an embarrassment It's the most cringy thing in the world and I dislike it very much. It's not a fake feud I've had a lot of fake feuds in my life. This isn't even a feud. I just really think it's bad Feeling feudy. It's embarrassing. Yeah, I I think the other thing that's interesting And I think we're stumbling into some trade stuff in a minute and I I I'll stop Saying where I reference it from because I listen to the Buster only thing So if you hear if you hear me saying something I heard it from the Buster only He's still he's still heavy on and a lot of people have been saying this that the rays are gonna try to cash in their chips and make a big move and It's because they have a ton of organizational depth and you've heard me rant about it I mean they called up guys like Nate Lowe and Brasso. I'll finally say it right And in the infield there and those guys just got plugged into the middle of their lineup from triple A So their depth is really impressive for me It just concerns me so much because if you do cash in a bunch of these chips You could still not make the wild card if you're the rays like there's teams there I will say this and I and this is kind of a yeah Let's just move on to kind of trade targets and and traders and and teams that are looking to add and Traders traders that kind of stuff because Jake I Was gonna kind of talk about the the Red Sox so one of the headlines Is John Morosey said that the Red Sox are showing active interest in Padres Closer Kirby Yates and Blue Jays Closer Ken Giles, right? I Know I'm a Yankees fan and I think a lot of people will say that we do a good job being unbiased What are the Red Sox doing man? They just traded for cashner To put Evaldi at Closer Who's never closed before? Cashner has two bad games, but whatever that's we're not gonna judge the whole they traded to 17 year olds So it's not like that's yeah, what a bad trade. No, it's he's eating innings and doing that but the Red Sox don't Have the money because they want to stay under the tax this year That's something that's known unless they pivot from that which the Yankees did last year. Yeah That's fine teams do that now the Yankees did it last year The Red Sox want to stay under the tax not that Kirby Yates and Ken Giles have a ton of money on the books But they got money on them on the books the Red Sox don't have a farm system It's it's pretty depleted Dombrovsky likes to deplete farm systems, but they won their world series So no one's complaining about that in Red Sox land either I Don't I don't understand the messages that the Red Sox are sending like they did this to make Evaldi the closer I said like that's weird because he's never closed before so you don't know now. They're saying they're actively looking for closers I think this was a leaked report by the club to motivate them Jake because the next to see next four series the rest of July for Boston Tampa Bay Rays Then four games against the Yankees Then three games against the Rays and then four games against the Yankees I'm not the best at math, but that's four plus four is eight plus six is 14 They have 14 games in a row against the teams Against the teams Jake that can plummet them or they can or they can beat those teams and really say hey Yeah, we need help, but I think that report is the Red Sox telling the players like hey We want we're still we're still on the hunt to add players But not necessarily going to because it doesn't really make sense But I find the Red Sox you wait out like these three games versus Tampa and Maybe if you if you sweep or you get swept you kind of have your answer Yes, I think it'll be interesting to see because Jim you mentioned that 14 game sample size or whatever our whatever Whatever number our math intern just gave us. There's eight games Before the actual trade deadline day for them Yeah, so so even even a smaller sample could dictate things so you wonder how that goes and I I don't know Jim I I understand they wanted to get under the luxury tax this year and Who am I to talk? I mean we we have people that come at us on Yankees Twitter to talk about the Yankees being a cheap Organization and I'm like what I grew up for 15 years Saying that the Yankees don't buy championships anyways I I just think the red the Red Sox got their title and When they came out and they they let Kimberl walk they let Joe Kelly go and they I Understand it from a business standpoint that you want to get under that luxury tax at the same time you're coming off a championship and It's so hard to repeat in any sport and when you come out and send that message that you're you're already depleted Both pen you're not replenishing that and Jim say if they do make one of these trades say they go get Kirby Yates And I don't know what prospects would be in play or any of that. I I don't know is like a guy like Chavez on the table I have no idea. I know I know there was a top prospect thing that came out recently that had a couple Red Sox guys sneak into the top 100 so so maybe they did a good job developing those guys and who knows what the deal would actually look like But I don't know if those guys are quality prospects or players I mean if you're a Red Sox fan, would you rather be sitting there right now and saying like well I kind of just wish we re-signed Kimberl and didn't trade away those prospects because in my head. I'm thinking yeah, yeah But I I know I think it's a message being sent like that report I don't know if they can afford if I don't know if they can out bid for Kirby Yates or for Ken Charles Ken the Toronto supposedly asking a lot for Giles and Padres are asking even more for Kirby Yates and the pod Padres and Red Sox have Kind of a bad trade history. If you remember a while back they traded for pomerance and the Padres didn't disclose medical records and they got in trouble for it and there was kind of like I Don't know if it's bad blood, but there is a bad. It's a bad history on their record But hey if the Red Sox the Red Sox make moves who knows the Yankees in 2017 They made some moves that didn't harm them. They traded to the for the they traded For David Robertson and Tommy Kainley from the White Sox that was bullpen help with and Todd Frazier came along So that was a team that was trading for the wild card the 2017 Yankees so teams can trade for the wild card I don't think there's anything dumb about that Because you never know Yeah, Jim, I think well going to Evaldi, you know You wonder if the Red Sox would would go back and do anything differently It's still too early to judge anything the guy did incredible things in the playoffs did the Red Sox Maybe feel like they had to pay for what they did to Evaldi in the World Series. I don't know. That's a little sports gossipy I won't go there because he also has incredible arm town Like he's he's a guy in baseball that people have been expecting to break out for a long time I think you're right in kind of what you're dancing around is for the Red Sox It seems more likely that they do a smaller move like people are talking about the Giants bullpen right now There's like five guys in the Giants bullpen that if they decide to sell Teams would want and I don't know it feels like you could see the Red Sox bringing in another arm to say they did that They brought in cashner but the salary cap thing is very real and I wonder when they do get to CBAs if they almost try to get away from that because let's be honest if the Red Sox didn't have to deal with the Salary cap they'd have Kimberle on that team and they'd be running it back and going for it So I wonder if that's a discussion in Major League Baseball right now Yeah, some other teams the Brewers placed Brandon Woodruff on a 10-day injured list, but it's his oblique Which those are usually longer than 10 days. They were already in the hunt for starting pitcher Jake now They're gonna be even more so they've been linked to all the big names bum wheeler Cindergarde Will Smith The bullpen and stuff like that but The Mets are dumb Sorry, they should trade Zach wheeler and notice Cindergarde Because for three years they have not and they've yet To win they're like we're gonna win with this staff They've yet to do it. They should try and get they try and shade trade in while they can and then bum and bum gardener Will Smith, that's a whole conversation with the Giants. Are they gonna trade I Don't think the Giants are gonna trade away these pieces Jake They're on a magical run right now if they win this series versus the Cubs Oh The see the Giants are kind of a weird place in baseball The Giants I lived in the Bay Area for a little they pride themselves on servicing the fans and we franchise our guys And our guys are our guys For real they won three World Series so the city has an attachment So if they think there's a chance and bum gardener knowing him and his connection Like I think he's gonna say like no, I'm waving my no trade clause. We're winning here Let's let's go to the wild card and I'm gonna start that wild card game and I'm gonna get us into the playoffs I don't like me personally. I think that's not possible But I think the Giants believe in themselves. They're proud franchise I think when they do shop bum, they're gonna be kind of upset with the returns. They're being offered I don't think they're gonna be that high and I think they may say let's roll the dice now That's just my opinion If you're a new listener, I have no qualms with being wrong ever I will be wrong a ton and when I'm right the few times I will brag about it and rub it in your face Oh, yeah, so ha ha, but I think that this run that the Giants are on is crazy right now, Jake and their team That has had magical runs before and that when the pressure's on they do it and just like ticket sales of a race and just the city getting behind them and That's a that's a town the Bay Area where like they want to support their teams And I think the Giants can really buy into that by keeping pieces right now instead of selling so who knows I mean, they have serious magic when you see a guy with the last name Yastremsky hitting a walk-off That puts a little lead in your pencil And another guy Jim Alex Dickerson has been raking for them If you remember we did a little talk in Giants last week and I did my weird Brandon Crawford rant I had a couple Giants fans reach out and they're like, yeah, you're you're kind of on it He has a couple big games and the other games. It's I don't know kind of a little lackluster production But this Alex Dickerson man 24 games. He's hitting 397 right now One dot two five eight era so I mean almost a month of baseball from it from the 29-year-old because I said Sandoval was having the best hitting season which a couple guys are sneaking up to him But I think body of work. It's still Sandoval So yeah, and you you wonder it's Bochi's last season. You're right It is a team that likes putting a good product out there Yeah, and and and they're they're doing good things. So yeah, I mean if you could and and I mean even You're this this next series really is huge They're 14 and 3 right now with 4 with 3 walk-off wins all versus the Mets and One of their losses was a walk-off loss. They're playing good baseball They're getting good performances from people that you don't really expect like bumgarner came out and pitched like his old self versus the Mets And then they had they had a rookie Faced the Mets in game 2 who shut them down. Didn't you have some crazy outing? Tyler beat. I don't know if he's a rookie. I might be wrong there, but eight innings pitched three hits no earned runs. I Mean they got the fever right now, man We when we we watched the Yankees series out there when was that May? Yeah, and and we were like, yo, this is a tough team They were they were playing a couple guys who weren't outfielders in the outfield and it just it felt like the story was this is It's gonna be tough that this is Bruce Bochi's last season and now look where we are I don't know you and I think we had this kind of argument last week that was you were saying if you're a front a smart front office guy You want to rebuild like that's the sexy thing to do right now But the Giants have always been different than the rest of the MLB when no one was signing free agents They signed Kutch, Longoria and someone else They've always they're like you said they like putting a good product on they're like one of the last teams I'd expect a tank So that in theory so what we just said there would be that mad bum was off the table Which always kind of felt weird anyways because the guy doesn't fit in a lot of towns to start So I I mean does that I Think something interesting I heard and again this last time I'm referencing Buster. He's a friend I won't be it won't be it won't be it's whatever we met Buster. He was so nice so nice like Eerly nice weird king of winter meetings easily but uh, Jim I mean with the pitching I think it was interesting that I heard that There's a lot of potential pitchers out there to be had like when you say the names like Wheeler Cinder guard is bum gardener Still out there Strowman. There's a lot of potential candidates Mike Minor Lance Lynn We've been doing this game of like who is available and I mean it feels like it feels like mad bum has come Come off and now the Texas guys are on The the thing that I thought was interesting that Buster said he's like there's not a lot of people talking about hitters And they don't know if it's availability or I mentioned it to you briefly But there's kind of this quote-unquote juice ball era and baseball where someone like Kettle Marta Has 21 22 career homers coming into the season and now he's got 21 this year So people are kind of scared to make a move on the hitters because what if the ball is a little juiced And then they take that out and now the guy you trade for that you thought was a 25 home or a year guy is back to 11 All depends on years like if you're trading for a rental for this year you take him because this year screw it punch it Yeah the other team the other update I wanted to say is that Sources said that Toronto's Eric so guard and texts as Danny Santana are among the super utility players drawing inches from the MLB Those guys always get looked at because they can you can plug them into multiple positions They say the Royals have too high of a price on Whit Merrifield. So they're pivoting to so guard and Santana The Rangers Just lost a lot of games coming out of the break Jake Yeah, the Rangers and this is now the third time I've said this on every episode of this show So sorry if you're sick of it if you're listening to the first time the Rangers have so many pieces they can trade I don't know if they want to but listen to the names of players that are going to be free agents next year Elvis Andrews, there's a he has an option a player option as Drupal Cabrera I don't again I don't know teams would want all these players but Sean Kelly out of the pen He's got a club option so they might keep him and it's what it's what we just said Jim I mean you're a team like the Giants and Joe Panic really hasn't given you much this year Do you give someone like it's Drupal Cabrera shot and does he get hot but go on? Hunter Pence Logan Forsythe as an Edison bulk as again, I don't know if these guys are I gotta I might be saying something dumb But there's a lot of guys here and now Santana Seems like the Rangers who this wasn't a win now season anyway If I was a Rangers fan, it would be the same way I was in 2016 with the Yankees when it was the first time in my life where I was saying Trade Beltran trade McCann. Yeah, trade Chapman trade everyone Let's get some pieces and that's how you can rebuild real fast So I think the Rangers might be dumping pieces soon. They might have a lot of people coming I didn't even say like Mike Minor There's a lot of guys out there and Danny Santana, man I I said the kettle marté one that I did steal from Bo. I won't say his name I'll take Danny Santana from him 72 games. He's got 13 homers He's hitting 320 with a 352 on base coming into this year He had half of those home runs. He had 13 career home runs now He's matched that this season if you're the Rangers this guy can play every position and he's been raking I mean even even if you get a little bit of value This was a guy who was a bad season away from like being a quadruple a player or something like that So I think I think you're right. I think Texas and Texas I didn't even say I didn't even say Lance Lynn who just struck out 11 Astros And he's the only guy to strike out double-digit Astros He did it twice in a week or some some crap like that If you're the Texas, I think you get on the horn now and you start doing it because Wars There's gonna be a couple more teams that are like, all right The the D-backs decided to send it in like we've got five days before the deadline If you're Texas get in there now because I think teams are still nervous. We saw it with the cashner trade We saw it with the Homer Bailey trade if Texas fully presents that to the league Man, they could move some pieces and get some really good returns quick. I think yeah, all right The brew the Braves are also looking to add some pieces We may have missed some other teams looking to add pieces the twins probably looking to add pieces But I think that's that's the the gist of the trade talk for this show We do have the Tigers picked up Edwin Jackson who boom I didn't get out of the first inning a while ago versus the Angels and then they put them on the Phantom DL But the the Tigers they're not trying to they literally need someone to eat innings So Edwin Jackson is gonna go put on an inning eating display in Detroit now that he's healthy Jim watch out He ate a lot of innings for the For the Blue Jays tell you that yikes All right moving on to the second half of the show we have segments We have awards we got topics and this is where we're gonna cover more of the action that just happened Jake We're gonna go for standout Performances you're on the board first who impressed you this weekend. Who is your standout performance? Jimmy like we hinted towards before there weren't a bunch of hitters that jumped off the map You I think you mentioned Mercado had the five-hit game our dude. We like watching him play Jim for me This was easy And and it's not a shot at the team. He did it against as some people might say Asher. Wojahowski Jim Is he your he's always been one of your favorites, right? Always been a huge Ash Woj fan Serious woj bomb in Baltimore this weekend. He goes 7.1 innings pitch 10ks one hits Boston Boston gets one hit as a team Jim and this is just a good story and you know on on our talk in Yanks podcast I was pretty hard on Baltimore earlier this year. I said they literally have the worst pitching staff ever assembled They've gotten a little better. So they're fighting me on that so good for you O's and Jim This is where this is part of the beauty of baseball I don't know if Asher Wojahowski gets a chance on a lot of teams unless their name Baltimore And he comes out man, and he's been twirling it. He's 30 years old now He spent all of last year in triple-a former thick first-round pick out of the Citadel Citadel Jim Wow Citadel guy. Yeah, 20 20 10. Thank you. Do you say thank you for your service for Citadel? Yeah, right? No idea. No idea but uh Jim He had a hell of a game and now with that game his season looks pretty strong his strikeouts his K-rate is super up So you wonder if he's one of these guys that leaned into analytics and was looking for his final chance Or I mean back in the day. We just say like oh the light bulb went off for him and now he's good Randall Asher Wojah, so he did. Oh, would you have gone Randall Randy? His name. Well, how does he get Asher? It's his middle name Randall Asher. Wow Randash I don't know. I don't know. I don't think he had a choice in the matter Bring back the RA. We got a talking Yankees listener supporter named Asher. I met him at the Yankee Stadium cool name Pretty nice, but uh, yeah Jim I mean now he's up to 23 innings 31 strikeouts in those innings and Without the Orioles, he may have never gotten a chance again in Major League Baseball Stoked for the guy imagine being 29 years old You have a career ERA of about six in the major leagues and you spend the whole year in triple A I mean you have those whispers and thoughts come in your head and do throws what could be the game of his life I hope it's not. I hope he comes back and he throws a couple more But could be the game of his life against the Boston Red Sox Asher what also is interesting because you know he didn't replace So the the Orioles had Bundy gone the IL then they traded cashner so Woj was up before the cash trade but If you're Boston is kind of funny because you're like wish we're traded for that guy right now But not true not true. Wow because the track records and all that was kind of funny Could have got cheaper price he would give much better performance Anyway, boss Boston fans would have been irate. I think if they traded for woj Oh, yeah, they would not not after not after Sunday. That was a joke They they whatever my standout performance and a new graphics on the screen. I put both guys right on this live Vijay, it's it's amazing is Mike leak Freak a leak another guy with a no-hit bid woj was no hit through six innings Mike leak no hit through Seven innings or eight innings. I Think it was a I think it was eight as well But this is the coolest part about this Mike leak performance complete game shutout Seattle manners Mariners pitcher Mike leak Complete game shutout versus the Angels one it Angels have a lot of good hitters. They got trout. You ever heard of them They got a tiny they got pools is Lestela broke his leg, but he was having good season One hit one walk six K's, but Jake the most impressive part about this is his last start before this one Was against this very same Angels team and the final line was 0.2 innings pitched eight hits seven runs for earned Little better so he goes he can't he doesn't make it out of the first inning and then in game the very next game He completes the game. That's got to be a great feeling That's a great way to just wash that first that last outing right out of your system complete game shutout for Mike leak Good for him. Good for Seattle. I guess I don't know what Seattle's rooting for at this point Yeah, big you I think you referenced him in the wrong area Dan Vogelbach had the big game in this game Yeah, yeah, I had six RBI's Yeah, good for Mike leak man. He's uh, he's still out there twirling it like you said the bounce back in baseball How could you face the same team about a week later and have those kind of results? It's crazy. It's crazy. So Good for our guy Mike leak eight and eight on the year four two seven era Kind of yeah sounds that sounds like Mike leak sounds like Mike leaked to me And I think the other thing that was kind of cool when he was doing it, Jim We were caught up in Yankees land and they were doing the David Cone 20 year anniversary of his perfect game and I don't know I mean that's still a fun moment whether it's no hitter perfect game if Mike leak had done that in Seattle I mean you become your memory Like there there would have been the 10-year Mike leak reunion in a decade and we'd we'd be talking about that Who knows if people be listen we talk We'd be talking. Yeah, we'd be talking Alright next up Jake we have you want to do some sad trombone Slump Well, okay, I have a date me Jim I have big news because if you're new new listener We put people on the slump watch and they're on it until they're off of it Dwight Smith's been on the slump watch Orioles left fielder Dwight Smith. Tell me something good. He's been on the slump watch a while You're never gonna believe this Jake second game versus the Red Sox first three at bats Are you ready for this? first three at bats ground out ground out Fly ball. Oh, no, he's going over again. No, he faces darwins in Hernandez who walks him Yeah, and that's what he needed Next at bat ninth inning of a blowout game Colton Brewer for the Sox comes in and Dwight Smith hits a double He is off the slump watch the very next game. He had another hit It was getting sad it that was that was a sad slump watch It was getting so sad the other person I think Pete Alonso has come off the slump watch Jake puller bear. I think he had a home run in Extra winnings to win it kind of yeah, then they blew it But I think he then he had some more hits later on Is he off okay in this series Jake okay, Pete Alonso He went two for 15 with two home runs. I think this still fits the home run derby narrative Guys, I'm sorry since the home run derby Jake since the home run derby Pete Alonso has four hits Okay. Yeah in 41 played appearances and three of them are home runs Yeah, so is he still tough that fits the home run derby narrative. We like the home run I don't know. I wish there was like an on deck circle or like a timeout because he's definitely not out But he shouldn't fully be in for a two home run series. You know what Jake you're you're beating around the bush He's still on slump watch. He's on it He's almost he's almost off But I do think you have four hits three of them are home runs. Maybe you just got a home run derby swing That's what the that's what the hot news folks would be saying That's what the pundits would say who else was here Tilson from the White Sox was on here Jake He's like a backup catcher. So I don't even think he's worth bringing up. That's so mean That's so mean to tell to Tilson's wife and children who are listening Jesus a He's an outfielder. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so that's even more more. That's even more shots fire Okay, that's that's actually kind of the meanest thing you can say anyway. He went over he went 0 for 7 this series They might have even did they send him down he hasn't played since July 16th. Oh Yeah, so he got so then well he was a defensive replacement anyway, so I don't know Yeah, let's take off no one no one needs. Yeah, sorry. Sorry CT. Well, congrats. You're off the slump watch the Ali Elias Diaz. Do you have any update on him? He was on slump watch Elias Diaz my guy from the Pirates He's a catcher Jim so you can you can make fun of his position and his life for being a pro baseball player If you want to do that, I guess Would never let me bring up the game logs. It looks like he got played on the Yeah, he played on the 20th. He had a hit he played on the 19. Yeah, Elias get out of here Congrats, Elias. You're off of slump watch and the team the Rockies the entire team They lose another series, but they did win the third game They're in the same boat as Alonzo like they're so close to being off But they could lose the next two and then it's like there's they're on so they're still instantly back on You'd like to think that they beat the Yankees. They save some of their bullpen arms They have a happy flight, which I feel like that's a big thing for the Rockies right now So hopefully they stay off the slump watch happy flights are huge in baseball and that's not a joke Jordan Zimmerman pitcher for the Detroit Tigers He had two outings seven earned runs back-to-back seven earned runs seven earned runs on slump watch His next outing versus the Toronto Blue Jays 3.2 innings pitched six earned runs Zimmerman you are still on slump watch Mr. Hot Body handsome handsome face Lucas Duda on slump watch Jim Yeah He's been benched. He got he's Lucas Duda had such a bad stretch seven seven fours last 62 in his 16 games 112 average 145 on base percentage He got benched Jake straight up benched him for five out of six games I do not have Sunday, I'm gonna go check Sunday right now Lucas Duda Royals. I think he got the start Sunday If he got a hit is he off slump watch? He did he went one for four on Sunday with a double okay If it was a single I would have said no, but the double I'm okay with it So we're okay. Well, we'll check on him next week because he's this is his first week on it He's still on it for this week. Okay. Yeah, there's still a follow-up. You you got Jan Gomes on here I everyone's favorite Brazilian catcher Jim three for his last 19 Yeah, it was tough for Jan and he's on the Nationals who are doing well right now Tough for Jan and and Jim this this last one made me a little sad because we saw him way on young Jan Gomes Jake He hasn't had a multi-hit game since June 7th and Since his last multi-hit game. He's six. He's six four fifty two 115 batting average so yeah, and and he's oh for his last four games. So Jan Gomes Big time slump watch. He's in a bad way right now. And yeah, the the last one Jim We love a new face to the game and when we saw him earlier this season he he looked like a lot of fun Use that ookey kukuchi you sigh you say you say you say well you say you sigh Last ten games Jim seven eight five eRA after having a three four three in the first eleven not enough pine tar What do you think's going on? He was a big pine tar user when he faced the Yankees. I Think this is the lead catching up they made an adjustment now He has to make an adjustment, but yeah, it's first eleven games. It was looking like wow This dude is a real deal nice curveball Last ten games seven eight five eRA. He's got two good starts in the middle out of the last ten the rest Some mediocre some brutal his last start was pretty brutal. So you say Kukuchi thought he proved himself He's got more proven to do and that that's normal I mean, I don't think this is anything to be worried about if you're a Mariners fan It's so normal for a pitcher to go through the league once do well go through a league a second time Do poorly you kind of the third and fourth time is when you really see what you got It's like that pitcher for the pod the Padres that One panic what paddock everyone was so impressed with him and I was like it's his first time through the league Like you can't you cannot put stock into first time through the league Yeah, he's uh, he's been following it up though. He's currently two seven eRA. It's it's not where he was But it's still really good. How many games does he have since coming back from the minors? He's got 16 on the season. Let me let me see if I could find his minor league gap When he gets it down so he I'm missing it because I mean it wasn't a big send down like there's there's a couple ten day gaps here But he's been good of late. I mean his past His past four starts paddock has been 24 innings pitched one for 80 ra So, yeah, yeah, maybe he was maybe he was hurt or something. I don't know No, I think you are right It is like people get a scouting report on you and you know and I always that's one of the most impressive things to me about guys and We we're lucky enough to watch a team that's known for their patience and a lot of veteran hitters a lot of times The the yanks see a team or they'll see a new pitcher that first time through the order And you like see them calculating in their head and then that second time they come up It's like oh, I've seen him now I can do this and that I mean that blows me away that people have brains and can use them a little bit Can't relate. Yeah, yeah, that's that's a different world for me Anyone else for slumpies you want to get in Fuego, baby? Yeah, let's go. Let's move on to the the good stuff Let's congratulate some guys for having good weekends in Fuego means on fire, baby Oh, I I had a couple slumpers. I put them in the wrong spot Tommy Fam and Tony get Excuse me. Joey Gallo. You guys had some bad bad series get it together. All right. Wow. They thought they were Scott free Fam and Gallo were listening they're like thank God They didn't pick up on my slumps and then you throw them in at the last second That was incredibly rude of you Tommy Fam is listening at the park right now after his one for 18 Thought he got away with thought he got away No, geez Trey Mancini for the Orioles had a great series kind of the professional hitter professional hitter on the Orioles right now 5 for 12 So that's a little under 500 math to doubles to home runs for runs for every eyes for 62 on base percentage in this Three-game set at Fenway. I believe good for a Trey Mancini Next one that I have is fun Jake Albert Poulos has been on fire since the break I know machine. I just Albert 440 batting average since the break 444 on base percentage one dot to 440 PS And he was he was on my he was on my borderline hot hot hot watch and Fuego last week Yeah, man, and he's driving in big runs So I mean good for Albert man. That's awesome Yeah, and I feel like every two weeks he does something cool He's given a fan something Albert feels like he's in a great spot in his life right now Like there was a couple years there where baseball turned on him because he was getting paid too much and he can't he can't move Yeah, now it just seems like he's kind of in the in a happy area. So good for Albert. Well, he graduated from Like he's like two years where you're like you're old dude You suck. Yeah, and then there's two years after that where you're like, wow, you're still playing and doing decent I thought yeah, and then you get excited for him. That's like the that's like the cycle How did he how did he do in the series because they did get no hit? It looks like he might not have played in that game Was he in the no hit game? He did sit that game. Yeah mark. Wow. That was smart of him coach Really smart by Albert I'm gonna take this one off leak leak looking like no, it's funny He he was probably pissed he didn't play in that game because they knocked leak around last time And then they started no hitting and he was like, all right Day off, baby. Yeah, so in his in the two games. He did play Versus Seattle he went four for six With a homerun a walk the sack fly. Good job Yeah, my guy that I I mean I if I can talk about him I'm pretty much gonna talk about him Ramon Laureano Jim he you mentioned. We're not great math guys eight for 16. That's that's baton 500 in your last four With a homer in there and center fielder for anyone that doesn't know Ramon Laureano is You know, I'm a sucker for center field and third base Those are the two positions that if you can play them special it It genuinely speaks to my soul and any Ramon Laureano highlight if you haven't seen him I mean just go check it out what he does with his glove and his armor blast dude Jimmy this guy can hit to He's got an OPS in the eights for the center field. He's one of the best center fielder's in the game He's 24 years old or excuse me turned 25 on July 15th. Happy late birthday Ramon And Jimmy went to your favorite college Northeast, Oklahoma A&M. Wow. Yeah, wow I haven't I got to get back there for a game sometime. So yeah, Jim I mean if you you're gonna get that Northeast, Oklahoma A&M Northeast, Oklahoma A&M college not a chance when they turned me down. That was my number one So, yeah, if you're gonna give me a defensive center fielder that can put some games together There was a 16th round pick out of NOAMC Yeah, Poppy Patron's gonna like that guy. He has had nine multi-hit games in July he's played 15 games nine of them. He's had more he's had more than one hit. I Think we and we saw he's had three hits. That's impressive I remember when he kind of came up with the A's and he he felt that it's rare in baseball You see a guy that can like own a game and he's one of those guys when he has a big day I mean, he's going to affect every aspect of the game. So I I love I love watching me some Ramon Laureano next next up Who got mad? Who got mad Jim? Not a lot of madness this weekend Bud Black got ejected, but he barely got mad Yankees game is a cheque swing didn't go He and that is way was it does more sad than it was more sad. It was it don't I did a breakdown on it. It's sad Cattel Marte Kettle Cattel Thanks, Cattel me too. Cattel would be weird Cattel Marte got ejected Struck out was arguing pitches earlier in the at bat. He didn't like same exact thing with Kevin Pilar Kevin Pilar he had a walk-off then gets ejected. I don't know if it was the next day but in the same series you to walk off and right Got eject. I don't know if he had a walk. I'm like, I think he did But anyway Pilar got ejected curveball above the zone terrible call Jake He was like flabbergasted and again it was like it was strike one or strike two. He grounds out Oh, I did see that it was really really bad. So Pilar got mad three ejections Nothing none were crazy enough to you know get big headlines, but they happen. They got mad Yeah, I guess and hey, we we've been we we try to stay as neutral I don't know if this is mad But our our dude Aaron judge and I think it's something that should be talked about because you had perfect images of it Aaron judge gets the most low strikes called on him in Major League Baseball I actually think Matt Carpenter has him beat, but it's a lot more games But judge gets called out on a low fastball like oddly low like this this couldn't this shouldn't be happening Like we should have a challenge flag or something. Anyways, that's for another. That's for a rainy day He comes out his next that bat He actually raised his pants a little so the strike zone looked a little different and you you had the image of it It was awesome. Yeah Under the knees a lot of guys wear their pants high to show where the knees are Yeah, and they're at bats and then he raised them hit a home run in the next step But also got another one. I think we should have a wrong alert on the scoreboard wrong shame just shame the umps Oh, I like that just on the big scoreboard in center field after like that strikeout They show the replay and then they just go wrong Yeah, why don't teams do that? I think the umpires would quit. I think it could quit on the spot Perfect. I know some robots a big gong gong wrong Gotta start doing that. Yeah wrong alert There was no call-ups no debuts, but we did have some walk-offs Jake Like we said the San Francisco Giants walked off three times We'd one series with three extra inning walk-offs against the Mets. So we'll actually we'll just call it two Um, you get one taken away. You stremski hitting a walk-off. I mean, that's just so cool Um, Dwight Smith not catching the fly ball not as cool as a walk-off Not Dwight Dom not Dwight Dom de smith. Excuse me To smith left fielder's though de smith Kepler walked it off for the twins And donaldson had a bases loaded shot that like in the in the box scores a single but it was like all counts as a single We'll walk off for the braves. I think there's one or two others that i'm forgetting, but uh, we need your help Tweet us in and walk off watch slump watch Who got mad need your help guys and that that donaldson one was cool because he got jammed on that pitch But he just had such a nice swing on it and he's so powerful that it it got going But like it hit a part it hit a part of the bat that sometimes I feel for other guys Like the short stops catching it and his cleared the left fielder. He's been he's been good He's in a lot of months a lot of home runs this month. He's been good He uh, I think he was on last week's last week's in flago or two weeks ago I uh bring her rain might have been my my player of the week I don't know. I just give myself fake slaps on the ass sometimes No Well, speaking of awards That's the next segment jake and I each get to give out one award That we think is deserving. I went first last week jake. So what's your award? Jimmy my award, you know, I've been kind of caught in this musical trap with awards lately Um, I'm giving out the zz top award jim okay The zz top award and well, I was going to say any guesses we can't do that game here because it's all of major like baseball Um, it's pretty tough. I'm I'm giving out the zz top award Because he's got legs and he knows how to use them jim ronald akuna Uh akuna my junior Uh for your atlanta braves the the young all star one of the best young players in baseball Jim we mentioned, uh, we mentioned at the start of this there wasn't too many like crazy standout performances Like no one was there and we're like wow, they had four home runs this weekend. That's insane Uh, one of the biggest things that jumped off ronald akuna junior He had four stolen bases four swipes. Uh, nobody else in baseball had more than two only two guys had two Only three guys in baseball this weekend had two or more steals akuna junior has four He also has a home run to boot with it He goes 471 550 batting average a 1 dot 256 ops in his last four and I mean he's just the one one of the best young players in the game So if I get a chance to talk about him, uh, I'm gonna take it and man, I mean these these braves he's got a 3.4 war on this season and uh, man jim I I was hinting towards it because we we were talking about How good the nationals could be if you get them in a playoff series with their pitching These braves are kind of just rolling like we talked that the nl central rate is heating up as of now knock on wood for our braves fans They just continue to keep that five six game lead and just chugging along Can you sing the zz top leg song? So we should we get it? He's got legs And he knows how to use them nice It's a little something good stuff It's all right zz tops not my vocal ranges. I don't know. It's very humid. Oh, it's hot in here All right. My award is the butter bean award the butter bean award. Who's oh my god What was that reaction? I mean it's it's an It's a big award. You don't just give out the butter bean award, you know Do you think people don't know who butter bean is? I Think if you did a butter bean breakdown, you'd have a good time. I don't know how well known butter bean is anymore butter bean Was a big boxer Yes, big boxer big boy boxer butter bean award goes to luke voight Wow, okay took a 90 mile per hour fastball To the lips to the kissa and ate it Took his base went the first Next up. I hear he's requesting a punch in the face from butter bean to prove he can eat that as well Also luke voight kind of looks like butter beans like nephew Okay, I like that Yeah, um, yeah, you have to be careful with that kind of thing But yeah, he he's a relative of butter bean that got More more meat a little less butter if you don't know what butter bean looks like It's a must google I'm guessing a lot of people do but yeah, luke voight basically took a butter bean punch to the face Survived, you know who didn't Johnny Knoxville got knocked out in that store in that jackass segment. Oh, yeah Wow, I wonder if people remember him from that um And yeah, I don't know do we even give the luke voight spiel if you don't know check them out Nope, we're moving on to everyone's favorite segment Uh-oh Elevator talk if you're new to the show Two minutes when we put on the clock. We're gonna spin a wheel. It's gonna land on a random team We are gonna talk about that team for two minutes. Jake will go to whatever websites He goes to I'll go to whatever websites I go to if you're stuck in an elevator with a fan of this team You will now have fodder You will be able to talk to that fan and ask him some questions when you leave that elevator They're gonna be like wow. I'm at a really cool baseball fan in the elevator. Yep. All right. Let's spin the wheel Spin it, baby The Atlanta Braves. Did we talking too much about them? Oh, I feel like we did a lot of braves. It's your call, man. I'm leaving it on you I'll spin it again and then we'll choose one of the two Okay The Yankees we're doing the braves. We're doing the braves The braves like Jake said, I think Jake's quote was like they keep passing tests right They keep they keep saying like is this team too young or they for real They have a good veteran presence with mccann and freddy freeman Uh to guide the young guys because they got a lot of young guys ozzy and akunya is the guys you need to know And jimmy how about your boy young thick? Oh young thick austin riley Yeah He's been I mean they They've got a young core man akuna austin riley albie standsby swanson having a good year freddy freeman still doing it at 29 Uh jim, I know what you'd love about this team. Everyone's got an ops. Dan's be swansons at 7 98 Every other starter is an eight or up there There's not a lot of dead outs in that lineups and that's huge when it comes to post season baseball Uh when you're not giving up easy outs that uh, that makes you as tough as you can be as a team Fun question you can pose is uh, how many how many players you think end with 20 home runs right now? They've got three freddy akunya and donaldson all have three over 20 Dan's be swansons at 17. He'll probably get there austin riley's gonna get there He's at 16 and ozzy albie's at 14. So it's like you think he's gonna get there. You think ozzy can pop 20 Okay, oh, I like that you'd be like I albies albies having a good year. Yeah, man I'm trying and and then we just kevin gossman came off the il He's had a rough start and he's always People have always liked him as a pitcher more than his numbers have come out and his fippin e r a would tell you that You could go there. Mike soraka having a hell of a year and jim. How do you pronounce to heron? Tehran tehran, baby Um, oh, what's up? This is good elevator stuff. Who do we think the braves are targeting if you had to pick a name out of a hat Well, they've been they've been linked to stroman Okay, the the braves gm is the x Oh, right, and opolis or whatever and he drafted stroman. So boom. There you go. That's there's your conversation the elevator You know that's our g our gm. He's the same gm that drafted stroman. They like some That's when the elevator hits the floor like you you proved you knew the guys you knew akuna You knew albies you knew freddy freeman Then that elevator hits you dropped the gm who he drafted and who they're trading for Boom elevator talk. Yep. They already picked up kykel jake Yeah, true. So that's something else like yeah, you think picking up kykel was the right move It was pretty cheap. So it was And he's been pitching well of lately man 35 adre e re 37 innings the e re for dallas geekle His last game isn't the most desirable 5.25 runs for earned runs But three seven innings pitched two earned runs are less before that So he's looking like he's going to be uh of use and helpful to them going in the future So there's some brave stuff to talk about That was braves. That was talking braves, baby talking braves All right, is that in the show jake any last words you want to say? I mean big series that we're looking forward to giants in the cubs That can really really change some things cleveland and Toronto cleveland needs to win because yankees are playing minnesota and then boston and Tampa bay playing each other is huge too Yeah, and I guess uh the the couple as the fringe dwellers wear down I mean the giants man, they're they're kind of the team to watch them baseball right now, which is insane Yeah Yeah, I mean if the giants can have a good series versus the cubs if they can beat the cubs I don't think they're selling any pieces. I think they're gonna bank on magic and give back to the fan base And by the way, if you're if you're someone outside of the nl west if you're just a baseball fan, you're rooting for the giants, right? I because this is fun. It's fun if they go on a magical run. It's fun I think the odds are stacked against them, but I think that they're the team that's most likely gonna believe in small odds What the guys they have and what they've done in the past Did I mention the buster only interview I listened to? I think so Okay, good The a's are playing houston White Sox marlins. Hey in in a's land. They're saying that's a big series Yeah Yeah, but all right. All right guys. Thank you very much for uh, tuning in Thank you very much to everyone that gave a review. We appreciate it if you haven't and you want to uh Be nice that would be awesome This is something I said I was going to do at the end of the show jake So now it's time for me to do it And it's gonna take a little bit. I'm gonna breeze through it. You're gonna hear me say You know how like they do the end credits of movies and they just put it on fast forward Yeah Are you ready? 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