On this week’s edition of Inside the (Rob) Parker, Rob discusses the Subway Series between the New York Yankees and the New York Mets, Mike Trout's latest injury setback and the future of robot umpires. Plus, Boston Red Sox shortstop David Hamilton swings by for an illuminating conversation on their season so far and his own career moving forward. Later, Caesars lead MLB trader Eric Biggio checks in to discuss the second half of the MLB season from a wagering perspective. Finally, we’ve got appearances by MLBBro.com managing editor JR Gamble and analytics guru Anthony Masterson.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
From the Berkshars to the sound from wherever you live
in MLB America. This is inside the Parker. You give
us twenty two minutes and we'll give you the scoop
on major League Baseball. Now here's Baseball Hall of Fame
voter number seventy, Rob Parker.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Welcome into the podcast. I'm your host, Rob Parker. What
a show we have for you today. Red Sox shortstop
David Hamilton, the rookie, will stop by.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
We'll catch up with him.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Also, a little fun with Caesar sportsbook lead MLB trader
Eric Bigio Balafaar, that and much more.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Better to lead off, it's getting robbed to keep him on.
Rob's hot take on the three biggest stories in Major
League Baseball. Number one.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
I know some fans might.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Think that Subway Series freeway series where two teams in
the same city or proximity is probably played out, has
been going on for a long time, but I'm here
to tell you that it's not. It's not played out.
Fans still enjoy it. I saw a graphic Wednesday night
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during the Mets and Yankees game at Yankee Stadium the
Subway Series, and it said something like out of the
last one hundred and forty eight meetings, only eight of
those games were under forty thousand in attendance.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Only eight.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I mean, that's incredible how much people show up for
those to see the rivalry, you know, and there's enough
of them in baseball to make it work. The White
Sox and Cubs, the Angels and the Dodgers, the Giants
and the A's. There are a lot of the Cardinals
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at the Royals like they're granted, there are a few
teams that just don't have a rivalry, like maybe the Tigers,
the Blue Jays and some of those the Reds, the
Reds and the Cleveland Guardians, that's another one. There's just
so many that it makes sense, and the attendance is
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good for baseball. You're talking about over forty thousand. You
don't know what the knights that those eight games that
happened between the Mets and Yankees being under forty thousand.
You don't know what kind of night it was, the
kind of weather it was, or whatever. But the vast
majority of the games are way over in attendance. And
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you'll take that any time for a baseball game. Getting
over forty thousand in attendance for regular season games.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Are you kidding? NBA teams can't fill eighteen thousand seats.
It's a tremendous thing.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
It was a great idea and you know what, it's strong,
it's alive, and it's well.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Number two.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Man, oh man, oh man. If you're an Angels fan,
you have to be sick to your stomach because Mike
Trout's rehab stent at Triple A Salt Lake has been
tentatively interrupted. He's traveling back to southern California. That happened
on Wednesday to have his knee re examined throughout. You know,
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the big time start for years and cannot stay healthy.
He felt a twinge in his surgically repaired knee while
striking out during the first inning at bat on Tuesday night.
There was hope that he would, you know, be able
to do his rehab and get back on the field
for the Angels. But he's got to be reevaluated, shut down,
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and they got to take a look at it.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
And it's a shame. Trout last played for the Angels back.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
In April twenty ninth, when he injured his knee. He
underwent surgery to repair meniscus damage four days later, and
the eleven time All Star was betting two twenty ten
home runs fourteen RBIs in twenty nine games this season.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
But he was unable to figure out how he.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Hurt his knee. And he's just been hurt a lot.
And that's the sad part about it. When people talked
about the beginning and the start of his career, Mike
Trout was talked about as being maybe wound up going
down as the greatest player of all time. He had
all the tools, he could play center field, he hit
for power, he had for average, he had speed. What
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could Mike Trout not do? There were people I remember
the year that Miguel Cabrera won the Triple Crown, there
were people who wanted who voted for Mike Trout over
a Triple Crown winner, I mean, which was incredible for MVP.
Now Miguel won it, but there were people still thought
that Mike Trout was more valuable.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
With all the stuff that he does.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
So his legacy has definitely taken a hit over the
last few years, him not being able to stay healthy.
An all time great player, of course, but not nearly
on the track that he was after his first six
or seven years in the big leagues.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Number three.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Jeff frankcor the former Major league outfield to play for
the Braves who is now an announcer for the Braves,
was on the Rich Eisen Show this past week and
they were talking about the idea of robot umpires getting
to the Major League. The commissioner has already talked about it.
They want to implement it in the minor leagues and
then see what they can do, and maybe in twenty
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twenty six there's a possibility it can make it to
the majors. I'm against it. I'm sorry. I don't want
to put humans out of work. I don't think that.
I don't remember going back saying, oh my god, this
World Series or that was lost because the umpire missed
the strike or ball.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
It happens.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
We watch we play on the NFL all the time
and they don't get it right. Every week on games
plenty of calls are blown. But the interesting thing here
was Frank Corr said that the reason he doesn't want
robot umpires is because of the arguments between managers and
umpires and players like that's a part of the game.
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It used to be a lot more than it is today.
A lot of guys have turned it down. When Loop
Panella was manager and Billy Martin, some of these guys
would come out there and kick third on the umpire
or home plate and just go crazy. Earl Weaver spitting
and you know, breakfast was coming out of a manager's
mouths and all that onto the umpire. It was crazy,
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and it was a part of the game, and fans
like would cheer it. I just think we don't want
to get to a point where everything is automated and
we don't need players and whatnot human beings.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
I'm cool with it. Are the umpires perfect? No.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
My argument is when guys don't do a good job
behind the plate or make bad calls, you should fire them,
watched them to retire, let them do another job. It's
just that simple. It's not the end of the world.
You shouldn't if you're an umpire. You shouldn't have to
get to keep your job as if you're the pope
or some sort of situation like that, where you keep
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your job regardless if you're good or not. Just have
make sure that people perform and do the best job
that they can.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
It's just that simple.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Here comes the big interview. Listen and learn.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
It's so good.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Now let's welcome into the podcast Boston Red Sox shortstop
David Hamilton.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Dave, thanks for joining us.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Of course, thanks for having me. Appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I just want to talk to you about your rookie
season basically and your progress. Where you are, what's happening.
How has it been. I know you came up last year,
but this is your full taste of the major leagues.
How things going.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
I mean it's going good. Got off to a rough start,
but I mean I've been putting in a little work
and seeing a little success lately. Yeah. Man, hopefully I
could keep it going.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Talk about your path to the major leagues. I know
you were drafted, then you got heard COVID. A lot
of things kind of pushed you back. How do you
did you persevere.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
During that time?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
You know what, just things weren't going your way.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Yeah, well I didn't play for there was three years,
two years because I got drafted, hurt toward my achilles,
and then COVID happened. So yeah, that was like two
full years away from the game. Yeah, I mean just
a lot of a lot of hard work, a lot
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of rehab to go through.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
How do you not get discouraged?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Two years off the field is a long time, you know,
where you go, do I really want to do this?
Do I really want to put in that work? Did
you ever get to that point or no?
Speaker 4 (08:51):
No, for sure. I mean I think that I kind
of just changed my body though. I was working out
a lot, getting a little faster, getting a little stronger.
So I was kind of ready to get back on
the field at that time. It took a long time,
but I mean I was happy with the work that
I put in to get to that point, you know,
and it's like when you finally get on the field,
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it's like, Okay, I've been working my ass off for
the past two years since I haven't been playing, So
I don't know, just a little bit extra motivation, I guess.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
How about being a shortstop for the Red Sox and
what that's like. You know the history of this franchise,
and you know how much people love baseball in Boston.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
What has that been like for you?
Speaker 4 (09:31):
It's been It's been a good experience so far. I mean,
the fans, like you said, are they're intense, they're crazy, they.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Are all about they're about the Red Sox.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Yeah they are. No. I mean it's been fun. Stadium
has been loud, especially like against the Yankees. Man, that's
that's some crazy atmosphere right there. Man, it's been fun.
I'm enjoying it.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Our guessed is Red Sox shortstop David Hamilton joining us
here on inside the Parker. Your first home runn of
the big leagues was against the Angels not that far
are from here, Dodger State. And what was that like?
And what was that experience?
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Like? That was? That was crazy? I got called at
like I don't know two am that day or I
guess the day before. Then flew over to La tired
as hell, played in the game, and I mean it
kind of just you know, you you don't think when
stuff like that's happening, and kind of just an out
(10:24):
of out of body experience. I guess, first major league
home run, Man, it was it was fun.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
I had you were rounding the basis, what's going through
your head? Are you are you just is the moment
and what's happening? Or do you flash back to you know,
all the hard work, maybe you know all the things
that you did to get here and here you are
in the big leagues, you know, leaving the.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Yard now, it was kind of like a surreal feeling.
I guess, like it just felt like I was running
the bases, man, like nobody else was around me. I
felt by myself, Like I don't even know how to
explain it. I feel like that sounds a little weird,
but no.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
You know what, I'm gonna say that I know exactly
what you're talking about. I once boxed in the celebrity
box at match. This was at the Palace in Detroit,
and I couldn't I only could see the person I
was fighting.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
I couldn't the crowd. I couldn't see the crowd.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
I couldn't see anything.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
So it was a crazy experience.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Man.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
It just kind of like I was floating around the bases. Really.
It was a yeah, man, it was that was fun moment.
I'll never forget for sure.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
What's the hardest part once you make it to the
major leagues? Is about the consistency?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Is it the hitting part? Is it the being consistent fielding?
Speaker 2 (11:36):
You know, when you play shortstop, you got to make
certain plays, you know, to make sure that innings are
clean and ended and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
What's the hardest.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
I think the hardest is just the mental part of
the game, you know. I mean you got to go
through it in the minor leagues too, But the minor
leagues is a different schedule like big leagues. You play
pretty much damn near every day, traveling, getting in eight,
you got to play the next day. Body doesn't always
feel the best, you know, kind of just like a
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mental grind to getting into the zone every day. Yeah,
I think that's the main thing. I mean, pitchers are better,
hitters are better. You got less time to react, That's
that's for sure. But I mean at the end of
the day, it's it's baseball, and that's what we've been
growing up doing. It's definitely at a higher level. So
I think that's just the mental part where that comes
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into play. You gotta be a little bit sharper between
the ears.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
How about the fun part? What's the most fun? Is it?
Is it just winning?
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Just?
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Is it? What? What?
Speaker 2 (12:37):
What part excites you when you're out there being around
your teammates, seeing guys get hits or winning or whatever.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
I think the fun part is the stadiums, like the atmosphere,
especially like big stadiums like this, but also like you said,
winning winning is you know, of course you want to
do good yourself, but even if you don't do good
and the team wins, like it's it's fun and it's
I don't know, it's it's addicting, you know. I want
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to That's kind of like my dream growing up is
to play in the World Series, you know, and that's
just got to win a lot of games to get there,
you know. So yeah, man, that's my answer.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Last thing you're coming into Sunday twenty three stolen bases,
I think top six in baseball. Just the idea about
stealing bases, your speed, what it takes to make that happen,
and that is that just something that's going to be
a part of a game as long as you can
make it happen.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Yeah. I mean I've always stole bases from since I
was little, all the way up until now. I think
that's just part of my game. I feel like I
have a good eye for stuff like that, and I'm
quick and fast, so that definitely helps. Yeah. Man, I
think I think I'm gonna be doing it for as
long as my legs allowed me to.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
How about the bases, they're all a little big aren't they.
I'm just saying.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
I mean, I guess it comes into play when it's
like a bang bang play, you know, But I mean,
what is it? How much does that actually help base running?
You know? I feel like it doesn't help that much.
Maybe a little bit, it's.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
A little bit, but most.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Of the plays, but I mean, it's it's the same.
I think that what would really help is the the
pickoff rules, so you can only pick off twice and
if they pick off like they.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Already know that they're not coming back over right right.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
I think that helps. The pitch clock would help too,
because they got to be quicker. You know, they can't
hold you forever, can't pick off six times.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
But yeah, okay, well, Dave, thank you so much and
continue success with the Red Side.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Thank you. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
It was a big week in the leagues. Is it
foul or is it fair? And now from mlbdbro dot com,
here's JR.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Gamboll Jr.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Is it foul or fair to say that Pittsburgh Pirates
rookie sensation Paul Skeens needs to go to a more
high profile and contending franchise to get the most out
of his talents.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
And potential star power.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Fair It's a fair ball.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
Pittsburgh Pirates rookie pitcher Paul Skeens was saddled with the
first loss of his career in twelve starts in Tuesday's
two to one defeat to the Saint Louis Cardinals at
PNC Park. Even in defeat, the a still managed to
accomplish something he had previously never done in his Major
League Baseball career, pitch.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
It to the ninth inning, going eight and to third.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
According to opti Stats, Skeens is the first pitcher in
the modern era since nineteen oh one to record twenty
five plus outs, fewer than five hits, walk zero batters,
and notch eight strikeouts in a loss. He had eighty
nine k sixty six innings entering the game. Skins has
taken the baseball world by storm and was even selected
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to start the All Star Game for the National League,
showing his immediate star power.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
He's big time.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
Unfortunately too big time for the Pittsburgh Pirates right now,
who have been an irrelevant team. With all due respect
to MLB bro star Andrew McCutcheon. Skains was six and
oho entering the game, and despite the loss, the crowd
was chanting MVP, MVP. On top of that, he's also
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a big celebrity because he dates former LSU gymnast Livy Dunn,
who became a viral sensation and an NIL sensation during
her time doing flips in college. She's considered to be
one of the most beautiful and marketed athletes, so they
are considered a power couple. All of that stuff he
has going for him will never be fully realized in Pittsburgh,
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a team that has won at least eighty two games
just once in the past nine seasons and is not
considered to be a huge market. They're barely above five
hundred this season and have a ton of team buildings
still to do. If I with schemes, I'd be looking
for a way out to get to a team that's
contending and does it rely so heavily on me to
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sell all the tickets, do all the heavy lifting that
can get tiring, especially when you're not winning consistently, and
they're not going to pay him the two hundred and
fifty to three hundred million he's probably going to be worth,
So why wait around, give that team your good years
and then leave. Anyway, there's no future in pit for
this kid. He's too big for the franchise. It's time
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for the pocket protector Centro. The analytic numbers you need
to know?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Well, maybe Anthony Masterson is his name, BS analytics is
his game.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
What do you got for me, Anthony?
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Deadline is here and conventional wisdom states that teams in
contention need to make moves in order to be lifting
the trophy at the end of the season, but have
recent champions solidified their claim at the deadline lately? Well,
over the past ten seasons, each World Series winner has
made multiple deadline trades, with only the twenty fourteen Giants
making a loan trade for Jake Peavey. But there have
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been some serious impact players in that club, starting with
last year's Rangers, who acquired Eraldaus Chapman, Jordan Montgomery, and
Max Schurzer at the deadline. Chapman only gave up two
runs in the postseason with six holds, while Montgomery won
three games for the World Champs. The rest of the
deadline deal list over the last ten years includes a
pair of World Series MVPs and Jorge Solaier for the
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twenty twenty one Braves and Steve Pierce for the twenty
eighteen Red Sox and two more lcsmvps, and Eddie Rosario
for those twenty twenty one Braves and Justin Verlander for
the twenty seventeen Astros who famously acquired him seconds before
the waiver deadline in August. You can throw in a
third there with Andrew Miller, a deadline deal for the
twenty sixteen Cleveland Indians who won ALCS MVP that year.
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In addition to those accolades, you have a pair of
hurlers who recorded the final out for their new club
to win the title in Mike Montgomery of the twenty
sixteen Cubs and Daniel Hudson for the twenty nineteen Nationals.
With so many teams in detention, the proof is there.
If you want a title, you better start dealing.
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Speaker 3 (21:44):
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Speaker 1 (21:45):
Robbing yourself doing great?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Of course I have to ask, are you related to
Craig Bgo at all?
Speaker 3 (21:50):
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Uh?
Speaker 7 (21:53):
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Speaker 4 (21:58):
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Speaker 2 (22:03):
And recently you were featured on Fox sports dot Com
preview on the second Half and some of the odds,
and we wanted to touch base with you about those things.
And let's start with the American League Most Valuable Player.
To me, it looks like Aaron Judges in a great
spot to win it, but there were others.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
What are the odds there?
Speaker 7 (22:28):
Yeah, he's a prohibitive favorite. He started off as the
I think third or fourth choice and got off to
a slow start, drifted up to about eleven to one
or so, and then all of a sudden, Ever since then,
he got real hot. So he's currently at minus four
point fifty, right behind him as Gunner Henderson and one.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
So let's having a hell of a season as well.
Speaker 7 (22:52):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely absolutely, and Jan Soto is his teammate.
No slotch there, so if he drops there is a
chance for him or even Bobby Wood Junior, one of
the best young players in the game having a great
year and he's at plus six twenty five right now.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Yeah, he's another one, just tremendous player. Royals didn't even
play around. They gave him the big contract, you know
what I mean. Like, when you got a guy like that,
don't play around. You want him to be on your
team for a long time. Another amazing rookie All Schemes
from the Pittsburgh Pirates who started the All Star Game
after only eleven starts. We saw Mark the Bird. Fidrich
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did that too, in nineteen seventy six. Usually I'm not
keen about jumping people ahead of the line. Chris Sale
had a great first half for the Atlanta Braids, right,
most wins twelve. But when you have a rookie like
that who hadn't lost and was lights out, what about
Paul Skins and.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
His odds?
Speaker 2 (23:51):
I guess for a Rookie of the year did they
start anywhere and change?
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Obviously, he's got to be a big time favorite in
the National League.
Speaker 7 (23:58):
Yeah, he's actually be one of the biggest betting stories going.
He started out offet about thirty to one for Rookie
of the Year, and we had we had a few
bites during spring training when he was lights out, but
then when they send him down, you know, people kind
of forgot about him for a little bit, and then
as soon as they called him up, we've taken NonStop bets.
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So he's he's cut down to a huge favorite right now.
But the biggest story too is the National League Cy
Young And we kind of put that up for just
as a kind of more of an interest bet public interest.
We put that up at ninety to one back in
early June, and wow, Yeah, and there's some huge tickets
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out there, you know.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
I saw.
Speaker 7 (24:46):
I was looking through it the other day. There's a
few hundred dollars tickets at ninety to one. And if
I look at the bet ticket for cy Young, it's
it's he takes two out of three bets. He's got
the most tickets written on him by far, which is
pretty impressive considering he's only been available to bet for
the award for the past couple of months. Meanwhile, these
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guys have been up there for six seven months. So yeah,
we'd lose a decent chunk to him if he wins
the Cy Young.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
I think it's gonna be all right because I think
he'll be Rookie of the Year. I'm not so sure
he's gonna be Cy Young, especially Chris Sale. I mean,
he's had a tremendous season for the Braves. I would
be surprised, you know what I mean. Absolutely he'll get
Rookie of the Year. But I can't see him when
he's Cy Young, especially if he wins. He's got what
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six wins and he finishes with twelve wins, and that
would be pushing it, you know, maybe ten to eleven,
and he's gonna lose a couple. He's lost one game already.
There's a good chance he'll lose a couple, right, and
then it'll be all yeah.
Speaker 7 (25:54):
And not only that, I'm not sure if he's even
gonna have the opportunity. It's gonna be tough for him
to get even to one hundred and fifty innings.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Pitch, that's true.
Speaker 7 (26:01):
Yeah, And the Pirates have shown a history of being
very conservative with their young guys, So if they're out
of the mix in mid September, I think they'll shut
them down. So it really takes something extraordinary for him
to win the award.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
No doubt.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
What about in the Al East Yankees and Orioles. Yankees
got off to an unbelievable start. Boy, they've come back
to the pack, but they're still in the now obviously
in the mix for the Al East, the Orioles, they've
made a comeback and they've fallen back a little.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Bit as well. What are the odds there who wins
the Al East?
Speaker 7 (26:33):
Yeah, it's been back and forth. As you mentioned, you know,
Yankees off the real hot start. Currently right now, it's
really close. Orioles at mys dollar thirty five, Yankees at
plus one oh five. You know, Yankees have really hit
the skids, but the Orioles really haven't extended.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
They're lead at all.
Speaker 7 (26:52):
They've lost a couple to the Marlins here, so you know,
it's it's still dead tight and I think it'll go
right down in the wire.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Yeah, I'm with you on that.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Our guest is Eric Bigio Caesar, sportsbook lead MLB Trader.
How about some other interesting tidbits on the board? What
else do you have that would be interesting?
Speaker 7 (27:12):
Yeah, a fun one that we do. We do the
number six seed, so who will be the last team
to make it into the playoffs, And especially this year
in the National League, it's wide open. I mean there
could be seven or eight teams that can make it in,
so that'll be a fun one to watch. And then
also a National League MVP, mister Otani. You know, he
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can't do anything wrong, but if he falls off at all,
maybe somebody that's gotten hot recently, like a Francisco Lindor
can creep into the mix. So there should be some
interesting storylines for the rest of the way.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Yeah that if Mookie Bets didn't get hurt, there would
have been something going at one point because movie got
to such a great start and Otani of course was
playing great as well, but Mooki was up there and
obviously he got hurt. I know there were no odds
on this, but I'm just ragging and letting you know
that before the season started, I said that the Diamondbacks
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and Rangers would not make the playoffs, the two World
Series teams.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
And you know what, I feel pretty good about that.
Speaker 7 (28:14):
Yeah, and I think I'm not sure at one point,
but i'd seen it had never happened where the two
teams coming out of the World Series were under five
hundred that late in the season. I believe it was
late June. Both teams are under five hundred. So, like
you mentioned, I mean, it's going to be a challenge
for both either or team to make it into the
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playoffs this year.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
What is crazy?
Speaker 2 (28:37):
And I don't know if you know this, but Bruce
Bochi of course has won four World Series, been to
five with three different teams, you know, one of the
all time great managers. Every year he's gone to the
World Series, the next year's team doesn't make the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
I think that's incredible.
Speaker 7 (28:52):
That's a great betting angle right there.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Yeah, incredible.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
So any last ones, as we had do do you
guys do anything you don't do trade deadline? I know
you try to look for a lot of different stuff.
What would be the wackiest bet on the board right now?
Speaker 7 (29:09):
I don't know about wacky and unfor I would love
to do some trade deadline stuff, but unfortunately some of
these states are pretty conservative for kind of stuff we
can put on the betting board. A fun one that
we put up Aaron Judge to hit sixty home runs
or not. That's at about a three to one right now.
So if you think he's gonna keep mashing, I think
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that's a good one. And if Show Hey or Aaron
Judge looks like they'll be back in the Triple Crown mix,
we'll get the odds on that up there as well.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Yeah, show Hey his problem leading off, you're not gonna get.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Enough RBI's possibly you know, opportunities there. So there we go,
all right, man, Eric Bigio from Caesar's Sportsbook, the MLB
lead Trader. There, we appreciate the insight and the fun
on some of these bets.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Thank you, my man, Thanks for thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Now bring in the closer. Here's why MLB is better
than the NFL. Or NBA, and it isn't even close.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Reason number five hundred and fifty five why Major League
Baseball is better than the NBA and better than the NFL,
it's about the trade deadline, which is coming up next week,
because we have seen trades that can alter a franchise history.
And one of the great all time deadline trades came
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in nineteen eighty seven when the Detroit Tigers needed to
bolster their starting rotation. And what they did was they
acquired Doyle Alexander from the Atlanta Braves, and the Tigers
traded away double a right hander John Smoltz, Yes Smoltzy,
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who wound up being a Hall Fame pitcher. So you
would say, wow, I mean Jack Morris wound up getting
in the Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee as well,
had a tremendous career.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
But John Small to get a guy like that in.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
A deadline trade and you know, and him wind up
going to the Hall of Fame. But I will say this,
in nineteen eighty seven, when the Tigers made that trade,
you gotta admit, if I remember correctly, Dorile Alexander wound
up going seven and zero for the Tigers during that
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stretch and they made the playoffs. So that's what they
were looking for to try to get to the playoffs.
They got a veteran pitcher. He performed, he did his job,
and it wound up working for both. That's why fans
can really look forward to the trade deadline because you
could get a player and it can help you get
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to the playoffs or build.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Something for the future.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
So this will be interesting as the trade deadline comes
up on July. You, in the words of New York
TV legend the late Bill Jorgensen, thanking you for your
time this time until next time.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Rob Parker out d can't Gavin. This could be an inside.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Of Parker see you next week. Save bat time from
same batt station.
From the Berkshars to the sound from wherever you live
in MLB America. This is inside the Parker. You give
us twenty two minutes and we'll give you the scoop
on major League Baseball. Now here's Baseball Hall of Fame
voter number seventy, Rob Parker.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Welcome into the podcast. I'm your host, Rob Parker. What
a show we have for you today. Red Sox shortstop
David Hamilton, the rookie, will stop by.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
We'll catch up with him.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Also, a little fun with Caesar sportsbook lead MLB trader
Eric Bigio Balafaar, that and much more.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Better to lead off, it's getting robbed to keep him on.
Rob's hot take on the three biggest stories in Major
League Baseball. Number one.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
I know some fans might.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Think that Subway Series freeway series where two teams in
the same city or proximity is probably played out, has
been going on for a long time, but I'm here
to tell you that it's not. It's not played out.
Fans still enjoy it. I saw a graphic Wednesday night
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during the Mets and Yankees game at Yankee Stadium the
Subway Series, and it said something like out of the
last one hundred and forty eight meetings, only eight of
those games were under forty thousand in attendance.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Only eight.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I mean, that's incredible how much people show up for
those to see the rivalry, you know, and there's enough
of them in baseball to make it work. The White
Sox and Cubs, the Angels and the Dodgers, the Giants
and the A's. There are a lot of the Cardinals
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at the Royals like they're granted, there are a few
teams that just don't have a rivalry, like maybe the Tigers,
the Blue Jays and some of those the Reds, the
Reds and the Cleveland Guardians, that's another one. There's just
so many that it makes sense, and the attendance is
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good for baseball. You're talking about over forty thousand. You
don't know what the knights that those eight games that
happened between the Mets and Yankees being under forty thousand.
You don't know what kind of night it was, the
kind of weather it was, or whatever. But the vast
majority of the games are way over in attendance. And
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you'll take that any time for a baseball game. Getting
over forty thousand in attendance for regular season games.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Are you kidding? NBA teams can't fill eighteen thousand seats.
It's a tremendous thing.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
It was a great idea and you know what, it's strong,
it's alive, and it's well.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Number two.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Man, oh man, oh man. If you're an Angels fan,
you have to be sick to your stomach because Mike
Trout's rehab stent at Triple A Salt Lake has been
tentatively interrupted. He's traveling back to southern California. That happened
on Wednesday to have his knee re examined throughout. You know,
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the big time start for years and cannot stay healthy.
He felt a twinge in his surgically repaired knee while
striking out during the first inning at bat on Tuesday night.
There was hope that he would, you know, be able
to do his rehab and get back on the field
for the Angels. But he's got to be reevaluated, shut down,
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and they got to take a look at it.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
And it's a shame. Trout last played for the Angels back.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
In April twenty ninth, when he injured his knee. He
underwent surgery to repair meniscus damage four days later, and
the eleven time All Star was betting two twenty ten
home runs fourteen RBIs in twenty nine games this season.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
But he was unable to figure out how he.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Hurt his knee. And he's just been hurt a lot.
And that's the sad part about it. When people talked
about the beginning and the start of his career, Mike
Trout was talked about as being maybe wound up going
down as the greatest player of all time. He had
all the tools, he could play center field, he hit
for power, he had for average, he had speed. What
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could Mike Trout not do? There were people I remember
the year that Miguel Cabrera won the Triple Crown, there
were people who wanted who voted for Mike Trout over
a Triple Crown winner, I mean, which was incredible for MVP.
Now Miguel won it, but there were people still thought
that Mike Trout was more valuable.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
With all the stuff that he does.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
So his legacy has definitely taken a hit over the
last few years, him not being able to stay healthy.
An all time great player, of course, but not nearly
on the track that he was after his first six
or seven years in the big leagues.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Number three.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Jeff frankcor the former Major league outfield to play for
the Braves who is now an announcer for the Braves,
was on the Rich Eisen Show this past week and
they were talking about the idea of robot umpires getting
to the Major League. The commissioner has already talked about it.
They want to implement it in the minor leagues and
then see what they can do, and maybe in twenty
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twenty six there's a possibility it can make it to
the majors. I'm against it. I'm sorry. I don't want
to put humans out of work. I don't think that.
I don't remember going back saying, oh my god, this
World Series or that was lost because the umpire missed
the strike or ball.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
It happens.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
We watch we play on the NFL all the time
and they don't get it right. Every week on games
plenty of calls are blown. But the interesting thing here
was Frank Corr said that the reason he doesn't want
robot umpires is because of the arguments between managers and
umpires and players like that's a part of the game.
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It used to be a lot more than it is today.
A lot of guys have turned it down. When Loop
Panella was manager and Billy Martin, some of these guys
would come out there and kick third on the umpire
or home plate and just go crazy. Earl Weaver spitting
and you know, breakfast was coming out of a manager's
mouths and all that onto the umpire. It was crazy,
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and it was a part of the game, and fans
like would cheer it. I just think we don't want
to get to a point where everything is automated and
we don't need players and whatnot human beings.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
I'm cool with it. Are the umpires perfect? No.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
My argument is when guys don't do a good job
behind the plate or make bad calls, you should fire them,
watched them to retire, let them do another job. It's
just that simple. It's not the end of the world.
You shouldn't if you're an umpire. You shouldn't have to
get to keep your job as if you're the pope
or some sort of situation like that, where you keep
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your job regardless if you're good or not. Just have
make sure that people perform and do the best job
that they can.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
It's just that simple.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Here comes the big interview. Listen and learn.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
It's so good.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Now let's welcome into the podcast Boston Red Sox shortstop
David Hamilton.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Dave, thanks for joining us.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Of course, thanks for having me. Appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I just want to talk to you about your rookie
season basically and your progress. Where you are, what's happening.
How has it been. I know you came up last year,
but this is your full taste of the major leagues.
How things going.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
I mean it's going good. Got off to a rough start,
but I mean I've been putting in a little work
and seeing a little success lately. Yeah. Man, hopefully I
could keep it going.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Talk about your path to the major leagues. I know
you were drafted, then you got heard COVID. A lot
of things kind of pushed you back. How do you
did you persevere.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
During that time?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
You know what, just things weren't going your way.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Yeah, well I didn't play for there was three years,
two years because I got drafted, hurt toward my achilles,
and then COVID happened. So yeah, that was like two
full years away from the game. Yeah, I mean just
a lot of a lot of hard work, a lot
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of rehab to go through.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
How do you not get discouraged?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Two years off the field is a long time, you know,
where you go, do I really want to do this?
Do I really want to put in that work? Did
you ever get to that point or no?
Speaker 4 (08:51):
No, for sure. I mean I think that I kind
of just changed my body though. I was working out
a lot, getting a little faster, getting a little stronger.
So I was kind of ready to get back on
the field at that time. It took a long time,
but I mean I was happy with the work that
I put in to get to that point, you know,
and it's like when you finally get on the field,
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it's like, Okay, I've been working my ass off for
the past two years since I haven't been playing, So
I don't know, just a little bit extra motivation, I guess.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
How about being a shortstop for the Red Sox and
what that's like. You know the history of this franchise,
and you know how much people love baseball in Boston.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
What has that been like for you?
Speaker 4 (09:31):
It's been It's been a good experience so far. I mean,
the fans, like you said, are they're intense, they're crazy, they.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Are all about they're about the Red Sox.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Yeah they are. No. I mean it's been fun. Stadium
has been loud, especially like against the Yankees. Man, that's
that's some crazy atmosphere right there. Man, it's been fun.
I'm enjoying it.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Our guessed is Red Sox shortstop David Hamilton joining us
here on inside the Parker. Your first home runn of
the big leagues was against the Angels not that far
are from here, Dodger State. And what was that like?
And what was that experience?
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Like? That was? That was crazy? I got called at
like I don't know two am that day or I
guess the day before. Then flew over to La tired
as hell, played in the game, and I mean it
kind of just you know, you you don't think when
stuff like that's happening, and kind of just an out
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of out of body experience. I guess, first major league
home run, Man, it was it was fun.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
I had you were rounding the basis, what's going through
your head? Are you are you just is the moment
and what's happening? Or do you flash back to you know,
all the hard work, maybe you know all the things
that you did to get here and here you are
in the big leagues, you know, leaving the.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Yard now, it was kind of like a surreal feeling.
I guess, like it just felt like I was running
the bases, man, like nobody else was around me. I
felt by myself, Like I don't even know how to
explain it. I feel like that sounds a little weird,
but no.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
You know what, I'm gonna say that I know exactly
what you're talking about. I once boxed in the celebrity
box at match. This was at the Palace in Detroit,
and I couldn't I only could see the person I
was fighting.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
I couldn't the crowd. I couldn't see the crowd.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
I couldn't see anything.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
So it was a crazy experience.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Man.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
It just kind of like I was floating around the bases. Really.
It was a yeah, man, it was that was fun moment.
I'll never forget for sure.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
What's the hardest part once you make it to the
major leagues? Is about the consistency?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Is it the hitting part? Is it the being consistent fielding?
Speaker 2 (11:36):
You know, when you play shortstop, you got to make
certain plays, you know, to make sure that innings are
clean and ended and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
What's the hardest.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
I think the hardest is just the mental part of
the game, you know. I mean you got to go
through it in the minor leagues too, But the minor
leagues is a different schedule like big leagues. You play
pretty much damn near every day, traveling, getting in eight,
you got to play the next day. Body doesn't always
feel the best, you know, kind of just like a
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mental grind to getting into the zone every day. Yeah,
I think that's the main thing. I mean, pitchers are better,
hitters are better. You got less time to react, That's
that's for sure. But I mean at the end of
the day, it's it's baseball, and that's what we've been
growing up doing. It's definitely at a higher level. So
I think that's just the mental part where that comes
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into play. You gotta be a little bit sharper between
the ears.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
How about the fun part? What's the most fun? Is it?
Is it just winning?
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Just?
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Is it? What? What?
Speaker 2 (12:37):
What part excites you when you're out there being around
your teammates, seeing guys get hits or winning or whatever.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
I think the fun part is the stadiums, like the atmosphere,
especially like big stadiums like this, but also like you said,
winning winning is you know, of course you want to
do good yourself, but even if you don't do good
and the team wins, like it's it's fun and it's
I don't know, it's it's addicting, you know. I want
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to That's kind of like my dream growing up is
to play in the World Series, you know, and that's
just got to win a lot of games to get there,
you know. So yeah, man, that's my answer.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Last thing you're coming into Sunday twenty three stolen bases,
I think top six in baseball. Just the idea about
stealing bases, your speed, what it takes to make that happen,
and that is that just something that's going to be
a part of a game as long as you can
make it happen.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Yeah. I mean I've always stole bases from since I
was little, all the way up until now. I think
that's just part of my game. I feel like I
have a good eye for stuff like that, and I'm
quick and fast, so that definitely helps. Yeah. Man, I
think I think I'm gonna be doing it for as
long as my legs allowed me to.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
How about the bases, they're all a little big aren't they.
I'm just saying.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
I mean, I guess it comes into play when it's
like a bang bang play, you know, But I mean,
what is it? How much does that actually help base running?
You know? I feel like it doesn't help that much.
Maybe a little bit, it's.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
A little bit, but most.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Of the plays, but I mean, it's it's the same.
I think that what would really help is the the
pickoff rules, so you can only pick off twice and
if they pick off like they.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Already know that they're not coming back over right right.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
I think that helps. The pitch clock would help too,
because they got to be quicker. You know, they can't
hold you forever, can't pick off six times.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
But yeah, okay, well, Dave, thank you so much and
continue success with the Red Side.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Thank you. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
It was a big week in the leagues. Is it
foul or is it fair? And now from mlbdbro dot com,
here's JR.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Gamboll Jr.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Is it foul or fair to say that Pittsburgh Pirates
rookie sensation Paul Skeens needs to go to a more
high profile and contending franchise to get the most out
of his talents.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
And potential star power.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Fair It's a fair ball.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
Pittsburgh Pirates rookie pitcher Paul Skeens was saddled with the
first loss of his career in twelve starts in Tuesday's
two to one defeat to the Saint Louis Cardinals at
PNC Park. Even in defeat, the a still managed to
accomplish something he had previously never done in his Major
League Baseball career, pitch.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
It to the ninth inning, going eight and to third.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
According to opti Stats, Skeens is the first pitcher in
the modern era since nineteen oh one to record twenty
five plus outs, fewer than five hits, walk zero batters,
and notch eight strikeouts in a loss. He had eighty
nine k sixty six innings entering the game. Skins has
taken the baseball world by storm and was even selected
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to start the All Star Game for the National League,
showing his immediate star power.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
He's big time.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
Unfortunately too big time for the Pittsburgh Pirates right now,
who have been an irrelevant team. With all due respect
to MLB bro star Andrew McCutcheon. Skains was six and
oho entering the game, and despite the loss, the crowd
was chanting MVP, MVP. On top of that, he's also
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a big celebrity because he dates former LSU gymnast Livy Dunn,
who became a viral sensation and an NIL sensation during
her time doing flips in college. She's considered to be
one of the most beautiful and marketed athletes, so they
are considered a power couple. All of that stuff he
has going for him will never be fully realized in Pittsburgh,
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a team that has won at least eighty two games
just once in the past nine seasons and is not
considered to be a huge market. They're barely above five
hundred this season and have a ton of team buildings
still to do. If I with schemes, I'd be looking
for a way out to get to a team that's
contending and does it rely so heavily on me to
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sell all the tickets, do all the heavy lifting that
can get tiring, especially when you're not winning consistently, and
they're not going to pay him the two hundred and
fifty to three hundred million he's probably going to be worth,
So why wait around, give that team your good years
and then leave. Anyway, there's no future in pit for
this kid. He's too big for the franchise. It's time
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for the pocket protector Centro. The analytic numbers you need
to know?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Well, maybe Anthony Masterson is his name, BS analytics is
his game.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
What do you got for me, Anthony?
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Deadline is here and conventional wisdom states that teams in
contention need to make moves in order to be lifting
the trophy at the end of the season, but have
recent champions solidified their claim at the deadline lately? Well,
over the past ten seasons, each World Series winner has
made multiple deadline trades, with only the twenty fourteen Giants
making a loan trade for Jake Peavey. But there have
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been some serious impact players in that club, starting with
last year's Rangers, who acquired Eraldaus Chapman, Jordan Montgomery, and
Max Schurzer at the deadline. Chapman only gave up two
runs in the postseason with six holds, while Montgomery won
three games for the World Champs. The rest of the
deadline deal list over the last ten years includes a
pair of World Series MVPs and Jorge Solaier for the
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twenty twenty one Braves and Steve Pierce for the twenty
eighteen Red Sox and two more lcsmvps, and Eddie Rosario
for those twenty twenty one Braves and Justin Verlander for
the twenty seventeen Astros who famously acquired him seconds before
the waiver deadline in August. You can throw in a
third there with Andrew Miller, a deadline deal for the
twenty sixteen Cleveland Indians who won ALCS MVP that year.
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In addition to those accolades, you have a pair of
hurlers who recorded the final out for their new club
to win the title in Mike Montgomery of the twenty
sixteen Cubs and Daniel Hudson for the twenty nineteen Nationals.
With so many teams in detention, the proof is there.
If you want a title, you better start dealing.
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Speaker 2 (21:35):
Now let's welcome to the podcast, Caesar Sportsbook lead MLB
trader Eric Bgo and Eric, welcome to the podcast.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
How are you doing well?
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Robbing yourself doing great?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Of course I have to ask, are you related to
Craig Bgo at all?
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Or just a common name?
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (21:53):
Maybe back in the old country, way way way back,
but nothing not that.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
I know of.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Okay, just want check. I would be remissed if I
did not at least ask.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
And recently you were featured on Fox sports dot Com
preview on the second Half and some of the odds,
and we wanted to touch base with you about those things.
And let's start with the American League Most Valuable Player.
To me, it looks like Aaron Judges in a great
spot to win it, but there were others.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
What are the odds there?
Speaker 7 (22:28):
Yeah, he's a prohibitive favorite. He started off as the
I think third or fourth choice and got off to
a slow start, drifted up to about eleven to one
or so, and then all of a sudden, Ever since then,
he got real hot. So he's currently at minus four
point fifty, right behind him as Gunner Henderson and one.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
So let's having a hell of a season as well.
Speaker 7 (22:52):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely absolutely, and Jan Soto is his teammate.
No slotch there, so if he drops there is a
chance for him or even Bobby Wood Junior, one of
the best young players in the game having a great
year and he's at plus six twenty five right now.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Yeah, he's another one, just tremendous player. Royals didn't even
play around. They gave him the big contract, you know
what I mean. Like, when you got a guy like that,
don't play around. You want him to be on your
team for a long time. Another amazing rookie All Schemes
from the Pittsburgh Pirates who started the All Star Game
after only eleven starts. We saw Mark the Bird. Fidrich
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did that too, in nineteen seventy six. Usually I'm not
keen about jumping people ahead of the line. Chris Sale
had a great first half for the Atlanta Braids, right,
most wins twelve. But when you have a rookie like
that who hadn't lost and was lights out, what about
Paul Skins and.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
His odds?
Speaker 2 (23:51):
I guess for a Rookie of the year did they
start anywhere and change?
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Obviously, he's got to be a big time favorite in
the National League.
Speaker 7 (23:58):
Yeah, he's actually be one of the biggest betting stories going.
He started out offet about thirty to one for Rookie
of the Year, and we had we had a few
bites during spring training when he was lights out, but
then when they send him down, you know, people kind
of forgot about him for a little bit, and then
as soon as they called him up, we've taken NonStop bets.
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So he's he's cut down to a huge favorite right now.
But the biggest story too is the National League Cy
Young And we kind of put that up for just
as a kind of more of an interest bet public interest.
We put that up at ninety to one back in
early June, and wow, Yeah, and there's some huge tickets
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out there, you know.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
I saw.
Speaker 7 (24:46):
I was looking through it the other day. There's a
few hundred dollars tickets at ninety to one. And if
I look at the bet ticket for cy Young, it's
it's he takes two out of three bets. He's got
the most tickets written on him by far, which is
pretty impressive considering he's only been available to bet for
the award for the past couple of months. Meanwhile, these
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guys have been up there for six seven months. So yeah,
we'd lose a decent chunk to him if he wins
the Cy Young.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
I think it's gonna be all right because I think
he'll be Rookie of the Year. I'm not so sure
he's gonna be Cy Young, especially Chris Sale. I mean,
he's had a tremendous season for the Braves. I would
be surprised, you know what I mean. Absolutely he'll get
Rookie of the Year. But I can't see him when
he's Cy Young, especially if he wins. He's got what
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six wins and he finishes with twelve wins, and that
would be pushing it, you know, maybe ten to eleven,
and he's gonna lose a couple. He's lost one game already.
There's a good chance he'll lose a couple, right, and
then it'll be all yeah.
Speaker 7 (25:54):
And not only that, I'm not sure if he's even
gonna have the opportunity. It's gonna be tough for him
to get even to one hundred and fifty innings.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Pitch, that's true.
Speaker 7 (26:01):
Yeah, And the Pirates have shown a history of being
very conservative with their young guys, So if they're out
of the mix in mid September, I think they'll shut
them down. So it really takes something extraordinary for him
to win the award.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
No doubt.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
What about in the Al East Yankees and Orioles. Yankees
got off to an unbelievable start. Boy, they've come back
to the pack, but they're still in the now obviously
in the mix for the Al East, the Orioles, they've
made a comeback and they've fallen back a little.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Bit as well. What are the odds there who wins
the Al East?
Speaker 7 (26:33):
Yeah, it's been back and forth. As you mentioned, you know,
Yankees off the real hot start. Currently right now, it's
really close. Orioles at mys dollar thirty five, Yankees at
plus one oh five. You know, Yankees have really hit
the skids, but the Orioles really haven't extended.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
They're lead at all.
Speaker 7 (26:52):
They've lost a couple to the Marlins here, so you know,
it's it's still dead tight and I think it'll go
right down in the wire.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Yeah, I'm with you on that.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Our guest is Eric Bigio Caesar, sportsbook lead MLB Trader.
How about some other interesting tidbits on the board? What
else do you have that would be interesting?
Speaker 7 (27:12):
Yeah, a fun one that we do. We do the
number six seed, so who will be the last team
to make it into the playoffs, And especially this year
in the National League, it's wide open. I mean there
could be seven or eight teams that can make it in,
so that'll be a fun one to watch. And then
also a National League MVP, mister Otani. You know, he
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can't do anything wrong, but if he falls off at all,
maybe somebody that's gotten hot recently, like a Francisco Lindor
can creep into the mix. So there should be some
interesting storylines for the rest of the way.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Yeah that if Mookie Bets didn't get hurt, there would
have been something going at one point because movie got
to such a great start and Otani of course was
playing great as well, but Mooki was up there and
obviously he got hurt. I know there were no odds
on this, but I'm just ragging and letting you know
that before the season started, I said that the Diamondbacks
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and Rangers would not make the playoffs, the two World
Series teams.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
And you know what, I feel pretty good about that.
Speaker 7 (28:14):
Yeah, and I think I'm not sure at one point,
but i'd seen it had never happened where the two
teams coming out of the World Series were under five
hundred that late in the season. I believe it was
late June. Both teams are under five hundred. So, like
you mentioned, I mean, it's going to be a challenge
for both either or team to make it into the
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playoffs this year.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
What is crazy?
Speaker 2 (28:37):
And I don't know if you know this, but Bruce
Bochi of course has won four World Series, been to
five with three different teams, you know, one of the
all time great managers. Every year he's gone to the
World Series, the next year's team doesn't make the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
I think that's incredible.
Speaker 7 (28:52):
That's a great betting angle right there.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Yeah, incredible.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
So any last ones, as we had do do you
guys do anything you don't do trade deadline? I know
you try to look for a lot of different stuff.
What would be the wackiest bet on the board right now?
Speaker 7 (29:09):
I don't know about wacky and unfor I would love
to do some trade deadline stuff, but unfortunately some of
these states are pretty conservative for kind of stuff we
can put on the betting board. A fun one that
we put up Aaron Judge to hit sixty home runs
or not. That's at about a three to one right now.
So if you think he's gonna keep mashing, I think
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that's a good one. And if Show Hey or Aaron
Judge looks like they'll be back in the Triple Crown mix,
we'll get the odds on that up there as well.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Yeah, show Hey his problem leading off, you're not gonna get.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Enough RBI's possibly you know, opportunities there. So there we go,
all right, man, Eric Bigio from Caesar's Sportsbook, the MLB
lead Trader. There, we appreciate the insight and the fun
on some of these bets.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Thank you, my man, Thanks for thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Now bring in the closer. Here's why MLB is better
than the NFL. Or NBA, and it isn't even close.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Reason number five hundred and fifty five why Major League
Baseball is better than the NBA and better than the NFL,
it's about the trade deadline, which is coming up next week,
because we have seen trades that can alter a franchise history.
And one of the great all time deadline trades came
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in nineteen eighty seven when the Detroit Tigers needed to
bolster their starting rotation. And what they did was they
acquired Doyle Alexander from the Atlanta Braves, and the Tigers
traded away double a right hander John Smoltz, Yes Smoltzy,
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who wound up being a Hall Fame pitcher. So you
would say, wow, I mean Jack Morris wound up getting
in the Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee as well,
had a tremendous career.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
But John Small to get a guy like that in.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
A deadline trade and you know, and him wind up
going to the Hall of Fame. But I will say this,
in nineteen eighty seven, when the Tigers made that trade,
you gotta admit, if I remember correctly, Dorile Alexander wound
up going seven and zero for the Tigers during that
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stretch and they made the playoffs. So that's what they
were looking for to try to get to the playoffs.
They got a veteran pitcher. He performed, he did his job,
and it wound up working for both. That's why fans
can really look forward to the trade deadline because you
could get a player and it can help you get
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to the playoffs or build.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Something for the future.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
So this will be interesting as the trade deadline comes
up on July. You, in the words of New York
TV legend the late Bill Jorgensen, thanking you for your
time this time until next time.
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