 The sun will come up, Tanaka, bet your bottom dollar that, Tanaka. Anyways, welcome to the talk and Yanks pre-game show, exciting, big one, Jimmerfordette. Yanks raised first place on the line, Edwin Encarnacion makes his debut for the Yankees, Tanaka Tuesday on a Monday. Yeah, Necherinos, for the raised, don't get much better than what you mean. The sun will come out, Tanaka, bet your bottom dollar with Tanaka. The sun will shine, anyway, Tanaka. Every time that cracks me up. Yeah, big game, you just witnessed me get excited. The Rays are a good team, the Yankees are a good team, and they're division rivals. We played each other a lot, and I was thinking about like the bullpen, and there shouldn't be any punt days this series from the Yankees. Like, we are trying to win. We got Edwin today, we get Stanton tomorrow. Don't tell yourself that, buddy, don't tell yourself that. That's how you end up in a tough spot. That's true, but we got Edwin today, Stanton tomorrow. We got Tanaka on the bump today. I'm excited, man. This feels much different than the four-game set over Father's Day weekend in Chicago. That felt like a fuck-around time. This feels like we better win this series. Yeah, and we've got a lot of games coming up with the Rays. I think it's a stupid amount in the next four weeks or something. And yeah, a couple of different dynamics from them. We've seen them a couple of times. We now know who Austin Meadows is. They have one of the guys who's supposed to be their catcher, Mike Sinino. So we'll get a look at him this time. We'll see if that affects anything. But I mean, right now, everyone's waiting for Boston to turn on that gas pedal. Every time they do, they sputter out a little bit. Right now, these are the two teams that are the class of the AL East. And I mean, it's summer. It's go time. I even think just having casually watched some sports center and ESPN in the past 24 hours, like they did a big thing on Cody Bellinger. Like the NBA title was one. The NHL hockey is one. Like it's kind of baseball time and NBA transactions. But like it's kind of we're at the point in the season. If you had a bad start, it's not a bad start anymore. It's like you're potentially having a bad season. If you had a good start, you'd potentially be having a great season. So we're in the thick of it, Jim. And first place, quote, unquote, on the line. Yeah, we got Tanaka on the bump. Where's my shirt? You like him? Yeah, I only love him. Can't find my shirt. Anyway, Tanaka and a good lineup. Let's do the lineup right away. It is DJ LeMayu's batting leadoff playing third base. Luke Voight playing first, batting second. Hicks batting third in center field. Gary is cleaning up at catcher. Edwin Encanathan makes his debut in pinstripes as the DH. DeeDee's that short. Glaber's that second. Cameron Maven in the eight hole in right field. And Gardner in left field. Tachman, Romine, and Urs Schuller on the bench. And Tanaka on the bump. It's a good lineup, right? Yeah, I think it's funny, Jim. I think just a little mini progression I just made in my head. Especially with G coming back tomorrow is you've mentioned for a couple weeks now how every day we've had enough talented people that our lineup should be, our top six should be really strong. We should be really happy with the top six in our lineup. I think we've made a jump today. I think from here on out, we should be pretty stoked with the top seven in our lineup. And I mean, we're seeing that today. Which, yeah, it's awesome. I don't know if this is why people call me a Hicks hater. I mean, Deedee's been swinging the bat pretty well. I wouldn't mind seeing him and Hicks flip-flop. But I don't actually care about that at all. It's just a small observation. And excited to see what the boys can do against Yanni Turinos. Well, Yanni's usually more of a headliner than an opener. Like, he's not going to go one or two. Like, if Yanni can give them four, I think he's going to give them four. Yeah, I mean, he's got 75 innings pitched on the year. He's, you know, which is more than some of our starting pitchers, 288 ERA. He's really been twirling it. His fifth is a little higher than that, if you're into that. Deed's only allowed 56 hits in 75 innings. His whip is under one. But less than a strikeout per innings. So I think there'd be some analytics that would tell you he's due for a little regression. But we've seen Yanni. I mean, he kind of throws it in cruise control. And he starts pitching pretty well. So yeah, I mean, there's a chance we could see Yanni once or twice through the lineup. I'm not really sure, Jim, why they're not going with a Stanick or one of their opener guys. But I thought I read somewhere that their opener thing has not been going as well as last year recently. But I could be so wrong about that. But I remember reading something like, is it time to maybe not do the opener as often? Right. But I don't know where I read that, and if it was a valid opinion or whatever. Jim, you know what it might be, man? I think Yanni has been so good. He's pitched his way out of the opener. His last four appearances, he's been the starter, and he's continued to pitch well. So I think the Reyes still have that mentality that if you're good, if you're Snell or if you're a class know who we saw earlier in the year, if you're pitching, well, we'll let you start. We don't really care. I mean, yeah. I guess Yanni's earned that right. His last two appearances, he's thrown 101 pitches, eight innings, and six. So yeah, he's just a starter now. Cool. Yeah. Good for the Reyes. They have just a starter. But for Yanni. Trinos, he faces, he faced the Yankees as a headliner. He pitched the third to the sixth, and then the third to the seventh in back-to-back games. Four innings pitched, two earned runs, 4.20 runs. The last two times he faced the Yankees, which, I don't know, one of them's good. One of them's not that good. We've never really blown Yanni up this season, at least. And good numbers versus Yanni. Luke Voight is four for five off as Yanni Trinos, Jake. That's an 800 batting average, just to let you know. Gio Rochelle is on the bench today. He's three for four, though. No one else has anything. DJ LeMay used one for four with a home run, but nothing really else going there. With Yanni, what's Yanni throw, Jake? Yanni, Trinos, a lot of pitches. I'm not really sure, man. I was just looking at his baseball reference page, and I thought it was interesting. He's not a huge ground ball. He's not a huge fly ball. He's not a huge strikeout. It just seems on different day, he does different stuff to you. He's got big ground ball days. He's got big fly ball days. So I don't know if the league has our sweet Yanni, Trinos figured out yet. He throws a sinker, so a two-seam fastball, 55% of the time, 93, 94 miles per hour. Pretty nasty. And then to get the cross-action, he throws a slider, 88. So those whistling each other. The old whiffle ball action. And then he does have a split finger that he throws 14% of the time that looks kind of just like a curve. Little splitter going on. Yeah, a couple of splits, Tanaka and Yanni. But yeah, he's having a really good year. Tanaka's stumbled a bit of late, but you know he likes a big game, night game, start the series. Jim, I'll rip through the rays because we haven't mentioned who's with Yanni, Trinos. We got Austin Meadows leading off Tommy Pham, saying the All-Stars will never be fair. Second, Brandon Lowe, he blows. Abyssal Garcia, G-Man Choi, an old friend of the program. Kevin Kiermeyer, Willie Adamas, always plays well against the Yankees. Joey Wendell and Mikey Z, Mike Zanino behind the dish. Yeah. I don't know. Austin Meadows, Tommy Pham, still make me nervous, but there's no one else in that lineup that I fear. I know they're good. And collectively they can beat you. I'm not trying to diss anyone, but like when like, I mean, I look at that lineup, it's Meadows and Pham. Are they, and are they still hot right now that are like, hey. I mean, they're still having good seasons. I know, yeah, it's kind of funny, like someone like Brandon Lowe and Joey Wendell, I always, I put those guys in the same bucket, like expect one of them to have a good series. Kiermeyer's not a fearful at bat, but you expect him to have one big hit, kind of same with Adamas. And then, yeah, Abysseil Garcia feels like a guy, he either has a great day or he doesn't do much to you. Whoa, Meadows is in a hell of a slump right now. Hello, Slump. Wow. Pham's hot, Meadows is in a slump. So in his last seven games, Austin Meadows is two for 25, 148 on base percentage. So he's slump, that's good to know. He's in a terrible slump right now. Tommy Pham is hot and Diaz is hot. Turns into a do you believe and do. So yeah, and I, man, Yanni Diaz, he put some at bats against us, like I don't know, I'm more scared of him than G-Man, I think, but I don't know, it's a lot of dancing and a lot of talk for a team that's been neck and neck with us for first all year. And I mean, when we saw Meadows previously, he was so good and now he's in a slump and that's baseball, Susan, do you believe in do? Let's play ball, Jim. Okay, let's do it. You got a what to watch for? Any new guys on the team with paired arms? I mean, that's too easy, right? Right, that's the layup. I'll just do more, I'll make my, my what to watch for Tanaka, I'll talk more about Tanaka. Okay. He's faced the raise twice this season already, Jake. Yep. Seven innings pitch, one earned run, and then six innings pitched, zero earned runs. He had a complete game shutout versus the raise last year, a six innings pitch, two earned runs last year. He's good against the raise for some reason. He has been in somewhat of a slide. His last three starts has been four earned runs, all three of them, and all three of them have been like, good, good, good, good, good, horrible inning, good, good, good. It's like one horrible inning, and it just comes quick, and usually there's like a bad defensive play involved, and then a base hit, then a home run. So, need Tanaka to avoid that one bad inning, and we're gonna need good defense behind him. I think we have a good defensive lineup. I mean, you have Hicks, Maven, and Gardner in the outfield, that's good. We have DJ at third. We got Didi and Glaber at second. I mean, we got good defense behind Tank, so hopefully that helps him. So, I mean, we need Tanaka to go to do what he does against the raise and not do what he's been doing recently. There's my watch for it. Avoid that one blow-up inning. That would be great. And yeah, you mentioned he's been great this year. I think it was back-to-back weekends that he went mono-a-mono with Snell and outpitched him. Yes, yeah. If I remember correctly. So, yeah, always get some bright lights and some tank, and should be a little extra energy. Fight for first place. Edwin joined in the team, so hopefully the boys can feed off that a little bit. My what to watch for, Jim, I'll do the verbal meme, the My Next chapter, the Kevin Durant post, put him in Yankee's jersey. No, you and I talked about this on our, yes, today's episode, if you listen, thank you, if not, go check it out. The Yankee's first chapter of the season kind of played out. It was a bunch of injuries, and then a bunch of dudes stepped up, and it was awesome. It was a lot of fun, and who's gonna do it on this day? Cameron, Maven, Geo, or Shella, different guys stepping up and doing their part. Some small ball, little defense. Still a lot of yabos, too. We got, what, in a 19-game home run streak going on. But we fell into kind of a two-week holding pattern after the Red Sox series, with a couple road trips that were just sloppy, and it was like we were looking for what the next chapter was gonna be, and now it is here, Edwin's joining the team today, Giancarlo's joining the team tomorrow, potentially Judge joining the team later this week. The new chapter has begun, and Jim, I mean, it's kind of gonna be a new chapter of the Yanks-Rays kind of rivalry this season. Like I was saying, it's mid-June. The Rays aren't just gonna flake out, and I wanna see, you know, is the intensity up a little bit from either side? Or are the Yankees, or the Rays, is someone gonna try to put the throttle down? You'd like to think it'd be the Yankees at home with Edwin and a little new energy in there, but I'm excited to see kind of what this new chapter of the Yankees is, and maybe it takes a little bit to come together, maybe it doesn't, maybe they hit the ground running, but that's what I'm watching out for. Hopefully tonight's the kickoff. Kickoff to the next chapter. We might have to wait till Stan, this is like a buffer, like hey, now loading. It could be, it could be. Because bullpen days, the Rays, well it's not a bullpen day, Terino's a starter. A bullpen day. We gotta think of, start thinking of him differently. All right, so next up, next up, Jake. Oh yes, it's the Homer Draft, it's the Homer Draft. It's the Homer Draft, Homer Draft, it's the Homer Draft. If anyone that's watching doesn't know what is happening, Homer Draft. Jake chooses two, I choose two. We can't have the same people in the same game. We can't choose the same person twice in the same series. This is a three game set. I get the first pick, I just did the math on it. And it's a pretty interesting development here, Jake. But I'm taking Gary Sanchez with my kick. Because one of the why is really good and I like him a lot. And if he Homer'd and I didn't have him, I'd be upset. Yeah, he's a famed first pick of the Homer Draft. I'm gonna go with King Louis V. He mentioned his numbers off of Yanni so far. And hopefully he can get one. And let me go with Sir Dede Gregorius. Well, I thought, so you're not gonna choose Edwin, make his presence known, establish dominance right away. Not what you're feeling, huh? You know I don't think Edwin's going yard tonight. Is that bet I made? What was the bet? The hot sauce in the eye. Oh yeah, you said that you- You told the internet. You said you pour hot sauce and you take a shot of hot sauce into your eye. It was one of those hilarious, like I never said it. But let's roll with it, you know? If you never said it, then why did I say that you said it? You're a huge liar. You think lying in small doses is funny. Whoa. And that's so true. What are you talking about? You think it tastes full of lies, fun. Are you taking, you're taking Edwin? No, I don't think he's gonna homer today. He's only got four homers versus the race. He will homer at some point during this series. And then we'll get to say, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, the race, you're paying for that, you know? That'll be so fun. Everyone will run that joke through the ringer and they'll be great. I'll do it. I'll do it once. No, I'm not gonna take Edwin. I'm gonna save Edwin for later. And instead, instead, instead, I'm gonna take Hicks. Okay. Deal? 10 point, yeah. Yeah, short porch, he's back. Yeah. Yeah. All right, so Jake has Voight and Deedy. I have Gary and Hicks in game one versus the race. Jake, next up, next up is the Overunder. Overunder, what do you think? Tank and Yanni, Yanni pitching really well. I'm gonna guess eight and a half. That's a really strong guess, Jim. I'll go eight, I'll go eight just to be a little different, but I love that guess, nine. Wow. I gotta put some faith in Tank, I know it all. I've been so bad in the Overunders. I've been so bad. Yeah, no, I like the under today. I mean, you got rested bullpen, should be a pretty intense atmosphere. Yanni's been pitching well, Tank pitching well against the race, it all makes sense. That's how Vegas gets you. Yeah, I didn't know Vegas, yeah. You wanna go see what the chat's talking about? We got something good. Do you say if we gotta get something good or got something good? If we get something good. Well, let's see. Scrambled egg with 100,000 subscribers said, can you shout me out please? Is that considered good or bad, Jake? Bad. Okay. Y'all take Edwin in the Homer draft? We did not. Oh, someone chimed in and said that they're watching from Scotland. I thought that was cool. How about that? Gorgeous. Are the Dodgers the best team in baseball, Jake? No. Okay. Okay. Oh, a lot of people were talking, I'm hearing rumors that the Giants or Indians would want Floral and Fraser to deal for either Bauer or Bum. If Mad Bum cost Floral or Fraser, that's insane. Yeah, I don't know. I think Floral would make a little more sense. A little more sense, but Clint for a rental doesn't make any sense in my brain. Yeah, I don't know. I think I link things back a little more to all this Chapman trade a little more than you do as we talked about last night, but yeah, I mean, Floral would make a little sense. I don't know. And I think if we got you in an honest moment, if the Yankees, if it was just Clint Fraser for Mad Bum, I think you'd shrug and say, all right. Oh, I don't, I have zero interest in Mad Bum. Right. Okay. He's not that good anymore and he plays in the NL West. Like, we'd be wishing for the same magic Verlander got when he went to the Astros. Like we'd be trading for 2019 Bum Gardener, hoping he somehow turns into 2015 Bum Gardener and then paying a price. I don't, what are really exciting? I mean, if he comes over and he's a stud and he's wrong, great, but he's currently in a pretty easy league pitching good, not great. Yeah. I mean, there's, there's some teams. I mean, people just asked us if the Dodgers were the best team in baseball. You got the Rockies are a really good hitting team. So I don't know, it's 3870 RA 93 innings and he's Mad Bum. I don't know. Yeah. He's Mad Bum doesn't do anything for him anymore. Like he's not in that tier in my brain anymore. So like, and he's just a true rental. So I don't think he would, I don't think he's going to cost a lot. I think he's going to cost around what Hap cost last year. Hap was a better pitcher at the time in a harder division. So I think that's my gauge for that price. Yeah, at least by us girl. Who? I mean, yeah. You don't have a DH and you have some of the most hitter friendly ballparks going. It's Into the least hitter friendly ballparks, Callum. What are the least hitter friendly ballparks? Coors in Arizona. Oh yeah. On that side. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. You go from a pitcher's paradise in the NL West to a pitcher's hell in the AL East. It's Oh no, I think I mean, Coors in the Diamondbacks field are hitter's paradises. Yeah. But then the giants and the Dodgers and what are the other ones? What's the other one I'm blanking on? Pots. Yeah. All right. I'd still do in division recaps. No, those take so much time. I'd need to like hire an intern to get the footage for me. We will be doing like, when we do start our MLB podcast, we'll do that stuff, but those videos take way too long. All right. There might be some more questions. Trevor Bauer. Tune into our voicemail episode tonight. I'm sure there'll be some of that. Yeah. If you're Yankee centric and then Zach Grankey, Zach Grankey ain't coming to New York. How about Zach Grankey's quote about how throwing a no hitter seems like a bigger deal because then you have to like deal with the media and the hoopla that comes with it. What does he think comes with winning a World Series? Yeah. But I mean, I guess what he's saying there is it's just one game. Like you just won one game. If you win the World Series, at least you've won the World Series. I love it. But it is kind of, he just hates, like you said, he wishes people didn't enjoy watching baseball. Yeah. Loves playing. Loves pitching. Doesn't like that people like watching it. All right. See you guys.