July 30, 2024 • 33 mins
Jomboy is discussing the best trade deadline storylines, the best teams at hitting grounders, and other MLB fun facts!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome to Jimmy's Three Things. My name is Jimmy.
I got three things in the world of Major League
Baseball that I want to talk about with you today.
Thank you very much for joining Jimmy's Three Things as
a production of Dan Patrick Productions, John Boy Media and
Workhouse Media. Trade deadline, trade window. There's been trades happening.
There's gonna be trades happening coming up. Gonna talk about
that in a little bit, try to wrap my head
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around it while you guys listen. Who's the best groundball
hitting team in all of baseball? Do you just have
to be fast? Who's the best fly ball hitting team
in all of baseball? Do you just have to hit
them really far? Probably? But I want to look into
that and then some fun facts to round it out
at the end, tip of my coffee, and then we
will begin. There's been some trades that have really peaked
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my interest from a storyline point of view. Obviously, anyone
listening to this, you know your team, you know your
division better than I do. I have never tried to
act like I know more than anyone else about their teams.
I know the Yankees very well because I watched them
every single day, and I know the ALI is decently
well because I watched them a lot. Other divisions, other
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teams I'm interested. I enjoy watching, I enjoy following. You
can't follow other teams. I can't know the nuances of
the rotation and the injuries and who's going to come
back and who's not. When I did talk in baseball
every day, I was forced to know all that stuff,
and it was a ton of work, a ton of work.
So I plaued everyone that does know about all thirty teams.
That is so hard to do. So what I'm not
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trying to get anyone mad. Please don't pretend I'm an expert.
Don't pretend that I'm pretending I'm an expert. I'm not.
But I like some of these storylines of these trades,
I guess, is what I'm trying to say. And I've
been saying since they expanded the playoffs that the trade
went deadline kind of stinks because I like playoff contending
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teams getting better so that when Major League Baseball puts
on it sends its act to the big stage, right,
and you get more eyes. I want the stars there
on that stage, and I want the best version of
the game. So I want the top half to get better.
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The Yankees weren't in the top half last year. I
wanted them to sell. You know, let's get the stars
in the playoffs. So if you're and that's really just
for rentals, right, like, if you're you're gonna be a
free agent and your team's out of the playoffs or
you have a year left, I don't know. That's just
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what I want. I think it's good for the sport
of baseball. Baseball wants fifty percent of the teams in
the playoffs. They that's the number they want. What we
have happening now is teams that are fighting not to
be We need to make this roster good enough to
go on a playoff run. We need this roster to
be good enough to get into the playoffs and then shrug.
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What happens happens. So you have kind of guys getting traded,
like last year, Gilido went to the Angels and then
he went got traded again because the Angels quickly fell off.
I didn't think that was good. I didn't like a
lot of that stuff. This year, we have every kind
of trade. We have the trade I'm talking about where
you just go get a rental and he comes and
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he's going to help you out for the remainder of
the season and should be a part of your postseason.
We have trades where the Yankees are getting Jazz Chisholm
for this year because he helps them right now, but
also Glaber Torres is a free agent and they're going
to try and sign Soto, so they need to keep
payroll down the next two years in the three year
window before the luxury tax resets and Jazzism fits there,
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so it's a little bit of an off season move
but helping this year. We've got trades of two teams
that are selling, the Rays and the Cubs, but they're
just using the trade window as their off season, with
eastak paries going from and morel going swapping like they're
not even contenders. The first time we had that that
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I remember was when Trevor Bauer went from the Guardians
to the and they were just getting him for the
next year basically, and then the Mets did it with Stroman.
I don't really like those trades because I want the
trade deadline to be like, let's get the good players
to the postseason, put them on the main stage. Grow
their fan base, grow their brand, grow the game. But
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it is interesting when you have so many different types
of trades happening. We've got trades the Red Sox and
the blanking blanking and I know it, but I'm blanking, blinking, blinking,
and I know it, but I'm blanking. The Red Sox
and the Pirates did a prospect trade right a couple
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of years ago, we had a Logan o Hoppy for
Brandon Marsh. They both had five years of control left.
That was just kind of a straight like debut debutant
for debutant trade. That's cool. So I am starting to
be like, wait, I kind of like the plethora of
different trades. It's not just a rental going to help
a contender. Now, those are my favorites, still hired guns.
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I think that's an awesome storyline. When CC did it
for the Brewers, that's probably the best example ever. Shres
Her what he did after he went to the Dodgers.
Remember the run he went on in the rest of
the regular season. That was incredible. I still like that.
I still like those the most. But we're getting so
many different kinds of trades that I am. I am
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into it. I do kind of like it. Right. Cubs
also acquired Nate Pearson from the Blue Jays and the
Blue Jays so like the Cubs and the Blue Jays,
both teams that are somewhat selling but getting. It's a
lot of that, like we're trading, but we're still acquiring.
As for storylines, just straight storylines, I don't know if
this is going to be beneficial. We're doing a full
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Talk in Baseball two and a half hour livestream. We're
gonna break down the trades more from a statistical standpoint.
Do we think it helps this team? Do we think
it hurts this team? Bloop blah blah blah bloop right
so right now, because what I like is just the
storylines of trades. And I think there's two that are phenomenal,
phenomenal storylines if you've been part of baseball and like
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the lore of it. And one is Jesse Winker going
to the Mets. He has been their their heel, but
in like the most loving heel way, Like yeah, we
should talk him and we hate him, but ah, he's fun,
like he gives it back with us. It's like a
fun banter almost. It was almost like when the Yankees
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played the Phillies and No. Nine in the World Series,
and Pedro was then on the Phillies and he was
It was still like, oh, this is awesome. Yeah, as
a Yankee fan, I was like, yes, we have our
formidable foe back. Now he wasn't the same pitcher then
he was with the Red Sox when he said tip
my hat called him daddy, But it was like, yeah,
I love this joust. And now it always kind of
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felt like Winker's gonna end up a Met man because
this this heel situation is more love than hate. They
love to hate each other. Now they're gonna love to
love each other. And I just hope that plays out
and is fun and is an enjoyable watch the Mets
win again. But that's just an arc, right, like you
would script that, and people did. People predicted that for
a while. So I don't know how much Winker is
gonna help the Mets. I know he was having a
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good season. We can can look into that. And Jesse
Winker came on talking baseball at one point. He was
really fun. He was having he is, I mean, a
really good season. No that's just with the Mets. But oh,
in his actual season, really good season. I remember I
checked in on him a long time ago, and I
was like, because I traded all the Nationals at one point,
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like early on in the season, I forget where I
traded Winker, but awesome. Uh for those not watching and
just listening, three seventy four batting average four nineteen, Well,
actually he's been good, so it's that was just with
the Nationals. It's three seventy five batting average four eighteen
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on bass seven ninety four. Well, that's kind of like phenomenal.
Good for Winker. Man. Hey, I think it's not talked
about enough. It's starting to like some guys really struggle
in Seattle to hit in that ballpark. Interesting, so they
slotted him. He played his first game and they slotted
him in the five hole in between Alonso and Vientos.
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So that's fun. Where was he Washington Nationals WSN I
think it's dacronhym. Where was he hitting for them? All
over at the start? Then down, and then in the
month of June July he was three or four? All right.
The next storyline that I think might actually be the
best storyline trade is the where is it I have it?
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The most recent one is that the Braves went out
and got Jorge Solaier from the Giants and Luke Jackson,
two guys that were huge parts of their World Series
win in twenty twenty one, and it's just like, hey,
remember when we won the World Series. That was a
great feeling. That's what we're chasing, right, Let's go get
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some of the guys that helped us. They also they
did trade one of the Believers, Tyler Matzik away, and
he was part of that the Night Shift as well.
But jore Celaire, my goodness, do you remember that those
playoffs with the Braves. I mean Jack won, well, spell
his name wrong, gonna search. Jack won our hearts with
the Pearls. But Solaire won MVP so and he was
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not having a good season before the trade in twenty
twenty one. I think he's not having great season. He
also didn't play a lot of outfield, hasn't played outfield
at all this year. He's gonna go back out there.
Hopefully it works sometimes these works. If it most times,
I think you're not gonna have it work again. But
as a storyline, like those guys helped us win the
World Series, let's let's just go ahead and bring them back.
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I'm looking at his stats here. So there was also
in the World Series in twenty sixteen as well. He
had a nine to forty eight OPS in the postseason
for the Giants. He had that huge home run in
the World Series. His World Series stats three hundred batting average,
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eight hundred slug, three homers, one double. So they're bringing
him back, and I like the storyline of that as
just a ton And if we look at twenty twenty
one before the trade, oh no, I can find this year.
So twenty twenty one before the trade, he was a
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one ninety two batting average six point fifty eight OPS.
And then after the trade, fifty five games, two sixty
nine batting average, five twenty four slug just really just
really got a lot better. Didn't perform that well in Miami.
Uh No, twenty twenty three was all right, got hurt
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this year, did he forget anyway? Twenty twenty four, the
OPS is above average. To be honest, I said he
wasn't having a great year this year. It's not true.
He's got a one hundred and sixteen OPS plus that's
means he's sixteen percent above average. OPS right now is seven.
Oh five or something like that. It's way lower than
you think, so he's above average. That's a fun storyline.
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Those are my two favorite just narrative storylines. Frankie Montas
goes to the Brewers. You know, the Brewers are a
fun team because they can make you better. There's one.
They're one of those teams that they can make you better.
You find the teams that have really good developmental systems.
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They'll trade for the younger guys sometimes, like that guy's good,
but he's already graduated in the Major League Baseball, you know,
sometimes they raise they'll go get your eighteen, your nineteen
year old. The Brewers can develop pitching really well. So
they trade for Frankie Montas. I wonder if they can
change him in season. The Reds said, they cried, They
said Montas was like such a leader there in such
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a small time. Didn't really didn't really figure that out.
You say, Kakuchi goes from the Blue Jays of the Astros.
I kind of like that trade a lot. I like Kakuchi,
just like watching him and being part of that. I'm
interested to see where he slots in because again, Astros
fans like you, let me know, I don't know where
he's gonna slot in, if he's gonna slot into the postseason.
I don't know all that. The Dodgers went out and
got a ton I mean, it's probably gonna get talked about.
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We'll talk about it. They just they got a utility guy.
They got Tommy Edmonds, so they just got it. They're
just getting options, They're just getting options. They got Copek,
who the Dodgers. That three way trade was fucking weird.
Cardinals get Fetti and he's having a great year and
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he's cheap for next year. So if they don't want
to pick up the Cardinals don't want to pick up
the club option on Sunny Gray or Lance Lane, they
have Fetti in the part of the rotation, or they do.
They also got Tommy Fam. He's a rental and apparently
the clubhouse was saying, go get fam, we need him,
we miss him, Go get Fam. Dodgers got Copak and
Tommy Edmund's got a year after this one where he
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makes ten mil. Does Copek have another year as well?
Or is he the rental? And Crochet's got a year
involved checking, checking, checking, checking, I am checking the website.
I clicked the Tigers inside of the Dodgers. God, damn,
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they have so many people under contract the Dodgers. This page,
this top section. Players with guaranteed salaries. It's usually not
this big. It's usually not this big. Tommy Edmund he
has another year nine point five meal and Kopek has
another year where you're gonna be kind of cheap. That's
such a good trade for the Dodgers. Man, God, just
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giving themselves so many options. And if you look at
that three way trade, the White Sox got utility. Mike
Miguel Vargas. Who's got I mean he's got to have
years left obviously, but why you're not being competitive? How long?
How many? How many more years? As Vargas have a lot?
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Oh shit, A ton one, two, three, four five, So
he's got five years? My bad. I thought it was
gonna be less than that because I've seen his name abot.
But then they got two nineteen year olds. And I
don't know enough about the the White Sox system. But
can they develop hitting because I think they traded for
two nineteen year old bats. If they can great, I
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don't know enough. Like the Yankees really struggled to develop hitting,
like they they took Glaber from the Cubs. They did
a lot of his development. He just got a little
sprinkling and Glabor is an MLB hitter. But sometimes you know,
you know what you can develop if you when and
you get young prospects, or you know what you can't
develop if you're aware enough and you get ready major leaguers.
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Justin Turner goes to the Mariners. I like that, all right.
I just want to talk about those storylines. Oh and
the I just got Rosario as well, so just options.
Unless I already said that, there's more to happen. My
Yankees need to do more jazz. Chisholm was a fun trade.
But Winker to the Mets. Braves just going back and
getting their heroes. My two favorite storylines. Like I said,
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tune into the Talking Baseball live stream or watch it
on replay for all our reactions and all that. Second
thing I want to talk about is we went to
the Yankees Red Sox game and Fenway last Friday. It
was a great series. There's a lot of stuff happening.
One thing I noticed I walked away from that series
being like, damn Red Sox had a ton of doubles
and the Yankees could not stretch anything into a double
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in that game, and it felt like the Yankees every
ball down the line Sodo couldn't cut off and the
Red Sox could. So Verdugo had this hit, which I
will zoom in a little bit. Verdugo had this hit.
If you can see it. He's a lefty, righty pitcher.
It's a flair line drive like flair over the third
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baseman's head to the left side where it's cut off
by ref Snyder and Verdugo is held to a single
because the ball didn't get past the outfielder, not hit
that hard, but still he got there in time. Every
ball that the Red Sox hit down the line, Sodo
didn't wasn't able to cut off. You have this one.
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It goes on the shortstop side of third base past Cabrera,
and Sodo can't get to it in time. It hits
the wall, bounces and it's a double. But I think
if the Yankees were running, it's not a double. And
then the next one again, right, man, is that the
same one? No, it looks like the same one. It's
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not the same one. Okay, this is another double, same
thing past the past Cabrera. Runners are going to score,
Sodo gets it, Volpi's telling him throw the second. He
throws the third Red Sox have a double on a
ball that could have been cut off. Then another one,
and this one's on the third base side inside the bag.
Don't know if any fielders cutting that one off because
it hit far hard down the line, gets the wall
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and cuts it off. But that led me to think, okay,
positioning aside, the Yankees just get no hustle doubles, like
they have no infield doubles. And then that led me
to the thought process of, well, which team has the
most groundball doubles? So on Baseball Savant, I went and
I said, let's sort it by the player were from
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the batter's point of view, the batted ball type is
a ground ball and the result is a double, and
then we'll sort it by team. All right, so you
kind of need speed or perfect placement to get these.
The Royals have the most with thirty eight, then the
Reds with thirty five, then the Diamondbacks with thirty four,
then the Orioles with thirty three. That's a lot of young, athletic,
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speedy teams. And the Yankees are oh, they're not tied
for last anymore. They must have had one recently, because
last time I checked this, they were hide for last
place with the Marlins, who only have fifteen. The Yankees
have sixteen. Now the Giants have seventeen, Seattle's eighteen. Let's
see the most recent one for the Yankees. Tell me
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it was Jazz Chisholm and he just no, it was
Sodo yesterday. Yep, inside the third base bag and it's
gonna go to the corner. Slicing shot from Sodo yesterday
gets them out of last place on this. And then
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I wanted to look at then what I also wanted
to look at. Naturally, my next thought process was, okay,
what about balls that like bloop over the infielder but
they don't get past the outfielder. So what I did
was I changed it to distance projected and it's under
two hundred and fifty feet and it doesn't have to
be ground ball. It can be anything now, and what
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I'm going to calling these are either replacement doubles or
hustle doubles, mostly hustle doubles. So which team has the
most hustle doubles? Right now? They are getting the extra base,
the orioles, the Twins, the Reds, Diamondbacks, Royals are the
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top five. So the Twins find their way up there,
and the Yankees are twenty eighth out of thirtieth. Seattle
is twenty ninth, so that's a common theme there and
Pittsburgh is thirtieth. And I was like, okay, so the
Yankees just the Yankees are slow. They don't grab that
extra base. They don't. You don't put pressure on the infield,
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like if we do singles batted ball type ground ball,
and then I, oh, you know what I can do.
I can change it to batteredball location and we can
choose first base, second base, third base, shortstop. So this
means that that's the player that touched the ball first.
So these would be infield singles. The Reds have to lead, well,
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I don't know if they have to. Wow, No, the
Brewers lead. I thought Ellie would have the Reds up there,
but the Reds are actually, oh my goodness, they're dead last.
I thought Elliot of the Cruz and his speed would
just get them some infield singles. Dead last. The Reds
are dead last. Jimmy's dumbest shit. Welcome to the show.
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I'm Jimmy Okay, listen to this. Fifth place has ninety
infield singles. Fourth place has ninety three, so we climbed three.
Third place has ninety four, so we climbed one. Second
place has ninety five, so we climbed one. First place
has one hundred and eleven, so we climbed fourteen. So
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the Brewers are leading the pack in infield singles, and
I wonder who's got the most. Willia Damis has a
good chunk here, Jackson Curio has a and William Contreras
has a ton. Okay, damn, they're just a team that's
playing hard. They all have a ton. Wow. Let's go
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watch a random one random, random, random this one third, Well,
I don't I don't know if that was a good
example of something the Brewers are doing right. But played hard.
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Some teams don't run and then they get tagged out.
Here's another one quickly. Wow, they just get down the line.
I guess, all right, good job by the Brewers. So
then then what I did. I had this little sheet
I was gonna fill out and we'll do this quick
best groundball team, all right, So I'm gonna use baseball
savant search, and I'm gonna say the the type of
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hit is ground ball. I don't care where it went to.
I don't care what the result of the ground ball was.
I just want all ground balls sorted by team. And
then in the included stats, I'm going to do batting
average and slugging percentage, and then we're going to find
out which teams are the best at hitting it on
the ground and which teams are the best at hitting
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it in the air. Now, the Miami Marlins have the
most ground balls hit by a lot, thirteen one hundred
and fifty nine. They have a two to forty three
batting average of two fifty six slug The highest batting
average team with ground balls is the Brewers, and I
guess we should have known that because we just did this.
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So best ground ball team Brewers. As far as batting
average goes, I guess they lead in slugging as well.
They do. Brewers, So we're gonna say Milwaukee slash Milwaukee.
They have a two ninety eight slugging on ground balls
and a two to eighty one batting average on ground
That seems crazy. High way to go, brew Crew. Last
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place your Reds, and then my Yankees, and then the
White Sox and then Toronto and then Cleveland. Who's got
the least slugging? The Yankees have the worst slugging, so
it would be Cincinnati. Yankees have the worst slugging on
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ground balls because they can't get doubles out of ground balls.
They're very slow, Just a very slow team. Let's switch
it to line drives. Now, who's the best line drive
hitting team? Dodgers. The Padres hit the most line drives.
The angel Why is that not sorted? The Angels are
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the worst? My bad Angels fans? The Giants. The San
Francisco Giants are the best line drive hitting team as
far as batting average. They have a six seventy one
batting average when they hit a line drive. Who's got
the highest slugging The Mets. Where to go, Mets, two
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teams in dual cities, two teams per city, Oakland when
they hit a line drive, My Goali, it's it's it's good.
The slugging's nice. Yankees have the third highest slugging on
line drives. All right, Who's got the worst batting average?
The Angels have the worst batting average online drives. And
then the Cardinals. No, no, no, The Cardinals have the worst slugging, okay,
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fly ball, let's just go down the list. See what
we got. Who's the best? This is gonna be like
the Yankees just because of judges' numbers on Homer's no
idea could be the Dodgers. Dodgers have hit the most
fly balls. Then Baltimore than Minnesota, highest batting average, worst
batting average, White Sox than Rangers than Cubs, best batting
average on flyballs, Boston then New York, and Boston is
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way ahead because the Monster. I mean, they have a
wall that turns flyball outs into singles or doubles, So
that makes sense that they're the best. I wonder if
they always lead the league in this categar. Slugging worst
White Sox so the worst White Sox. When they lift
the ball, they stink, and the Red Sox have a
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nine to eighty six. So the Red Sox are the
best flyball hitting team. And that makes a ton of
sense because the Monster is very, very shallow, so if
you hit a fly ball, you can get a home
run or a double and they're outs everywhere else. Like
I do wonder if the Red Sox lead that every year.
Last year, I'm gonna check last year the highest batting
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average on fly balls Atlanta. Boston was third high slugging
on fly balls Atlanta. Proven wrong right away once again.
Jimmy's dumb Hi, I'm Jamie. Uh do we do worst
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for flyball? This is the White Sox both times? Right,
bumber and just for shits and giggles, because I don't
know how pop ups usually outs, usually outs. Toronto has
hit the most pop ups. Wow. The Pittsburgh Pirates have
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never had a hit on a pop up. One and
eighty four pop ups, zero hits, zero slug Wow, a
bunch of jumps over there in Pittsburgh can't get their
pop ups to fall. Who's got this? Has to be luck?
Ooh the windy City Chicago, tell me that's just win based.
Chicago Cubs have the best batting average on pop ups.
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They don't have the best slugging though. Who got the
best slugging Boston? How did they even rank that? All? Right?
Which team has the most hits on pop ups? We
know the Pittsburgh Pirates don't, So Boston has six hits
on pop ups. They have a double, a single, a single,
a triple, a single, a single, So that's what gets
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on the slug is that triple? Let's see, all right?
This one is that Fenway? Is it a monster? Oh?
No way, oh no way. Okay, So what happened here
is third baseman and shortstop just looked at each other.
I got it. You take it. Situation. So that helps
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them out there. Way to go, Red Sox. Now we
got what's this one gonna be? Line drive? Okay, that's
considered a pop up. I would consider that a flare.
It's like a thirty feet high Maybe next one at
Fenway again? Okay, uh oh no, the domis the shortstop
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calls for it and then says, never mind, I'm blind
and I'm scared. Let's it drop. So this is just
a luckstat. Okay. This one is not at Fenway, but
it's a day game in Saint Louis, and it looks
like they're going to be blinded again. Oh man, off
this glove blinded again. The Red Sox really know how
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to play the sun Runners on the corners, tie game,
bottom ninth, Oh Sunday night baseball. They won on that.
Huh damn. But I gotta see how the Cubs got
their pop up hits. They got a single here, all right?
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So that's like another flare job. It's not that high.
Patrick Wisdom with a single on this two oh pit
which dead center fastball ninety seven, way up in the air.
First baseman coming in coming in falls between him and
the second baseman. Brooks just gave up on it all right.
Suzuki singles on a pop up to Ozzie Albi's he's blind,
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Sun got him. This has nothing to do with skill. Yep.
On this one, Wisdom again, and he's terribly mad. Wow
is Wisdom the league leader and hits on pop ups?
I mean he's just hitting it to blind spots. Pat
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Patrick ian hat with a flair. Oh, that's I don't
even know how to I don't even know how to
discuss that one. It was a little pop up shot
that just bounced. That one drops. Guys, I'm doing one
more thing. I'm sorting this by player name, pop up
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bass hit. I want to see if Patrick Wisdom as
the most with two or is there someone that's getting
the best of Oh Jazz Chisholm has a lot so
Nick Casiano's, Brent Rooker, Jaron Durant, Tyler O'Neill, Patrick Wisdom,
Jose Caballero, Caballero and Chisholm all have two and now
for the third section of the show. Today it's just
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fun facts. If you don't enjoy the fun facts, let
me know, because of a lot of you are say hey,
I'd rather a topic than just a bunch of fun facts.
Let me know. But Dalton Prepsy's fun facts and I
enjoy them. Sometimes I read them beforehand, which leads to
a fun fact becoming a main topic. Sometimes, like today,
I have not read them. I've decided I'm gonna play.
I googled on you a YouTube news background of music,
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and I'm gonna bring you the fun facts as a
news anchor. Here we go. On Monday, the Mets batted
around twice in a three inning span, the bottom of
the fourth and the bottom of the sixth, first time
they did that in a game since nineteen seventy six.
Spencer Schwellenbach joined Jared Jones and Masahiro Tanaka as the
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only pitchers since at least nineteen oh one with sixty
plus strikeouts and fewer than ten walks in their first
ten career starts. Where to go schwellin'back Jones and Tanaka.
Tyler Phillips Thremattox in his third career start on Saturday,
becoming the fifth Phillies rookie to do so. A nine
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inning shutout less than one hundred pitches. The d Backs
are seventeen and eight over their last twenty five games.
Five of those losses have been blown saves in the
ninth inning, four by Seawald and won by Martinez Ouch.
Five of the eight losses they had the lead that
would have made them twenty two and three over this stretch.
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Would that have changed the deadline? Did see four blown slaves?
Saves change the deadline? The Giants have beaten the Rockies
twelve straight times at home. The Rockies tied their record
for most consecutive losses at an opponent opposing ballpark. The
Rockies go to San Francisco and they lose, lose, lose,
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and then they leave. The Giants struck out fifty three
Rocky batters, the most by Giants pitchers in a four
game series. Wow. Matt Chapman recorded his twelfth stolen base
of the year. He had eleven stolen bases entering twenty
twenty four in seven seasons. How about that. On Friday,
Patrick Wisdom hit the first pinch hit Grand Slam for
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the cub since David Body's walk off Grand Slam on
August twelfth, twenty eighteen. On Sunday, Xavier Edwards became the
first player since Fred Lewis on May thirteenth, two thousand
and seven, to hit their first career home run and
record a cycle on the same game. Congrats to XE.
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On Friday, July twenty sixth, Trevor Rodgers became the first
Marlin starting pitcher to earn a win since June eleventh,
Buck Congrats to Trevor Rogers. Trey rog Pete Crow Armstrong
is now nineteen for nineteen and Steel attempts, tying Rex
Huddler for the fourth most consecutive Steel attempts to begin
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a rookie season since nineteen fifty one. And that concludes
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Hello, and welcome to Jimmy's Three Things. My name is Jimmy.
I got three things in the world of Major League
Baseball that I want to talk about with you today.
Thank you very much for joining Jimmy's Three Things as
a production of Dan Patrick Productions, John Boy Media and
Workhouse Media. Trade deadline, trade window. There's been trades happening.
There's gonna be trades happening coming up. Gonna talk about
that in a little bit, try to wrap my head
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around it while you guys listen. Who's the best groundball
hitting team in all of baseball? Do you just have
to be fast? Who's the best fly ball hitting team
in all of baseball? Do you just have to hit
them really far? Probably? But I want to look into
that and then some fun facts to round it out
at the end, tip of my coffee, and then we
will begin. There's been some trades that have really peaked
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my interest from a storyline point of view. Obviously, anyone
listening to this, you know your team, you know your
division better than I do. I have never tried to
act like I know more than anyone else about their teams.
I know the Yankees very well because I watched them
every single day, and I know the ALI is decently
well because I watched them a lot. Other divisions, other
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teams I'm interested. I enjoy watching, I enjoy following. You
can't follow other teams. I can't know the nuances of
the rotation and the injuries and who's going to come
back and who's not. When I did talk in baseball
every day, I was forced to know all that stuff,
and it was a ton of work, a ton of work.
So I plaued everyone that does know about all thirty teams.
That is so hard to do. So what I'm not
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trying to get anyone mad. Please don't pretend I'm an expert.
Don't pretend that I'm pretending I'm an expert. I'm not.
But I like some of these storylines of these trades,
I guess, is what I'm trying to say. And I've
been saying since they expanded the playoffs that the trade
went deadline kind of stinks because I like playoff contending
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teams getting better so that when Major League Baseball puts
on it sends its act to the big stage, right,
and you get more eyes. I want the stars there
on that stage, and I want the best version of
the game. So I want the top half to get better.
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The Yankees weren't in the top half last year. I
wanted them to sell. You know, let's get the stars
in the playoffs. So if you're and that's really just
for rentals, right, like, if you're you're gonna be a
free agent and your team's out of the playoffs or
you have a year left, I don't know. That's just
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what I want. I think it's good for the sport
of baseball. Baseball wants fifty percent of the teams in
the playoffs. They that's the number they want. What we
have happening now is teams that are fighting not to
be We need to make this roster good enough to
go on a playoff run. We need this roster to
be good enough to get into the playoffs and then shrug.
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What happens happens. So you have kind of guys getting traded,
like last year, Gilido went to the Angels and then
he went got traded again because the Angels quickly fell off.
I didn't think that was good. I didn't like a
lot of that stuff. This year, we have every kind
of trade. We have the trade I'm talking about where
you just go get a rental and he comes and
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he's going to help you out for the remainder of
the season and should be a part of your postseason.
We have trades where the Yankees are getting Jazz Chisholm
for this year because he helps them right now, but
also Glaber Torres is a free agent and they're going
to try and sign Soto, so they need to keep
payroll down the next two years in the three year
window before the luxury tax resets and Jazzism fits there,
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so it's a little bit of an off season move
but helping this year. We've got trades of two teams
that are selling, the Rays and the Cubs, but they're
just using the trade window as their off season, with
eastak paries going from and morel going swapping like they're
not even contenders. The first time we had that that
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I remember was when Trevor Bauer went from the Guardians
to the and they were just getting him for the
next year basically, and then the Mets did it with Stroman.
I don't really like those trades because I want the
trade deadline to be like, let's get the good players
to the postseason, put them on the main stage. Grow
their fan base, grow their brand, grow the game. But
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it is interesting when you have so many different types
of trades happening. We've got trades the Red Sox and
the blanking blanking and I know it, but I'm blanking, blinking, blinking,
and I know it, but I'm blanking. The Red Sox
and the Pirates did a prospect trade right a couple
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of years ago, we had a Logan o Hoppy for
Brandon Marsh. They both had five years of control left.
That was just kind of a straight like debut debutant
for debutant trade. That's cool. So I am starting to
be like, wait, I kind of like the plethora of
different trades. It's not just a rental going to help
a contender. Now, those are my favorites, still hired guns.
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I think that's an awesome storyline. When CC did it
for the Brewers, that's probably the best example ever. Shres
Her what he did after he went to the Dodgers.
Remember the run he went on in the rest of
the regular season. That was incredible. I still like that.
I still like those the most. But we're getting so
many different kinds of trades that I am. I am
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into it. I do kind of like it. Right. Cubs
also acquired Nate Pearson from the Blue Jays and the
Blue Jays so like the Cubs and the Blue Jays,
both teams that are somewhat selling but getting. It's a
lot of that, like we're trading, but we're still acquiring.
As for storylines, just straight storylines, I don't know if
this is going to be beneficial. We're doing a full
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Talk in Baseball two and a half hour livestream. We're
gonna break down the trades more from a statistical standpoint.
Do we think it helps this team? Do we think
it hurts this team? Bloop blah blah blah bloop right
so right now, because what I like is just the
storylines of trades. And I think there's two that are phenomenal,
phenomenal storylines if you've been part of baseball and like
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the lore of it. And one is Jesse Winker going
to the Mets. He has been their their heel, but
in like the most loving heel way, Like yeah, we
should talk him and we hate him, but ah, he's fun,
like he gives it back with us. It's like a
fun banter almost. It was almost like when the Yankees
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played the Phillies and No. Nine in the World Series,
and Pedro was then on the Phillies and he was
It was still like, oh, this is awesome. Yeah, as
a Yankee fan, I was like, yes, we have our
formidable foe back. Now he wasn't the same pitcher then
he was with the Red Sox when he said tip
my hat called him daddy, But it was like, yeah,
I love this joust. And now it always kind of
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felt like Winker's gonna end up a Met man because
this this heel situation is more love than hate. They
love to hate each other. Now they're gonna love to
love each other. And I just hope that plays out
and is fun and is an enjoyable watch the Mets
win again. But that's just an arc, right, like you
would script that, and people did. People predicted that for
a while. So I don't know how much Winker is
gonna help the Mets. I know he was having a
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good season. We can can look into that. And Jesse
Winker came on talking baseball at one point. He was
really fun. He was having he is, I mean, a
really good season. No that's just with the Mets. But oh,
in his actual season, really good season. I remember I
checked in on him a long time ago, and I
was like, because I traded all the Nationals at one point,
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like early on in the season, I forget where I
traded Winker, but awesome. Uh for those not watching and
just listening, three seventy four batting average four nineteen, Well,
actually he's been good, so it's that was just with
the Nationals. It's three seventy five batting average four eighteen
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on bass seven ninety four. Well, that's kind of like phenomenal.
Good for Winker. Man. Hey, I think it's not talked
about enough. It's starting to like some guys really struggle
in Seattle to hit in that ballpark. Interesting, so they
slotted him. He played his first game and they slotted
him in the five hole in between Alonso and Vientos.
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So that's fun. Where was he Washington Nationals WSN I
think it's dacronhym. Where was he hitting for them? All
over at the start? Then down, and then in the
month of June July he was three or four? All right.
The next storyline that I think might actually be the
best storyline trade is the where is it I have it?
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The most recent one is that the Braves went out
and got Jorge Solaier from the Giants and Luke Jackson,
two guys that were huge parts of their World Series
win in twenty twenty one, and it's just like, hey,
remember when we won the World Series. That was a
great feeling. That's what we're chasing, right, Let's go get
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some of the guys that helped us. They also they
did trade one of the Believers, Tyler Matzik away, and
he was part of that the Night Shift as well.
But jore Celaire, my goodness, do you remember that those
playoffs with the Braves. I mean Jack won, well, spell
his name wrong, gonna search. Jack won our hearts with
the Pearls. But Solaire won MVP so and he was
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not having a good season before the trade in twenty
twenty one. I think he's not having great season. He
also didn't play a lot of outfield, hasn't played outfield
at all this year. He's gonna go back out there.
Hopefully it works sometimes these works. If it most times,
I think you're not gonna have it work again. But
as a storyline, like those guys helped us win the
World Series, let's let's just go ahead and bring them back.
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I'm looking at his stats here. So there was also
in the World Series in twenty sixteen as well. He
had a nine to forty eight OPS in the postseason
for the Giants. He had that huge home run in
the World Series. His World Series stats three hundred batting average,
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eight hundred slug, three homers, one double. So they're bringing
him back, and I like the storyline of that as
just a ton And if we look at twenty twenty
one before the trade, oh no, I can find this year.
So twenty twenty one before the trade, he was a
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one ninety two batting average six point fifty eight OPS.
And then after the trade, fifty five games, two sixty
nine batting average, five twenty four slug just really just
really got a lot better. Didn't perform that well in Miami.
Uh No, twenty twenty three was all right, got hurt
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this year, did he forget anyway? Twenty twenty four, the
OPS is above average. To be honest, I said he
wasn't having a great year this year. It's not true.
He's got a one hundred and sixteen OPS plus that's
means he's sixteen percent above average. OPS right now is seven.
Oh five or something like that. It's way lower than
you think, so he's above average. That's a fun storyline.
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Those are my two favorite just narrative storylines. Frankie Montas
goes to the Brewers. You know, the Brewers are a
fun team because they can make you better. There's one.
They're one of those teams that they can make you better.
You find the teams that have really good developmental systems.
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They'll trade for the younger guys sometimes, like that guy's good,
but he's already graduated in the Major League Baseball, you know,
sometimes they raise they'll go get your eighteen, your nineteen
year old. The Brewers can develop pitching really well. So
they trade for Frankie Montas. I wonder if they can
change him in season. The Reds said, they cried, They
said Montas was like such a leader there in such
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a small time. Didn't really didn't really figure that out.
You say, Kakuchi goes from the Blue Jays of the Astros.
I kind of like that trade a lot. I like Kakuchi,
just like watching him and being part of that. I'm
interested to see where he slots in because again, Astros
fans like you, let me know, I don't know where
he's gonna slot in, if he's gonna slot into the postseason.
I don't know all that. The Dodgers went out and
got a ton I mean, it's probably gonna get talked about.
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We'll talk about it. They just they got a utility guy.
They got Tommy Edmonds, so they just got it. They're
just getting options, They're just getting options. They got Copek,
who the Dodgers. That three way trade was fucking weird.
Cardinals get Fetti and he's having a great year and
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he's cheap for next year. So if they don't want
to pick up the Cardinals don't want to pick up
the club option on Sunny Gray or Lance Lane, they
have Fetti in the part of the rotation, or they do.
They also got Tommy Fam. He's a rental and apparently
the clubhouse was saying, go get fam, we need him,
we miss him, Go get Fam. Dodgers got Copak and
Tommy Edmund's got a year after this one where he
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makes ten mil. Does Copek have another year as well?
Or is he the rental? And Crochet's got a year
involved checking, checking, checking, checking, I am checking the website.
I clicked the Tigers inside of the Dodgers. God, damn,
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they have so many people under contract the Dodgers. This page,
this top section. Players with guaranteed salaries. It's usually not
this big. It's usually not this big. Tommy Edmund he
has another year nine point five meal and Kopek has
another year where you're gonna be kind of cheap. That's
such a good trade for the Dodgers. Man, God, just
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giving themselves so many options. And if you look at
that three way trade, the White Sox got utility. Mike
Miguel Vargas. Who's got I mean he's got to have
years left obviously, but why you're not being competitive? How long?
How many? How many more years? As Vargas have a lot?
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Oh shit, A ton one, two, three, four five, So
he's got five years? My bad. I thought it was
gonna be less than that because I've seen his name abot.
But then they got two nineteen year olds. And I
don't know enough about the the White Sox system. But
can they develop hitting because I think they traded for
two nineteen year old bats. If they can great, I
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don't know enough. Like the Yankees really struggled to develop hitting,
like they they took Glaber from the Cubs. They did
a lot of his development. He just got a little
sprinkling and Glabor is an MLB hitter. But sometimes you know,
you know what you can develop if you when and
you get young prospects, or you know what you can't
develop if you're aware enough and you get ready major leaguers.
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Justin Turner goes to the Mariners. I like that, all right.
I just want to talk about those storylines. Oh and
the I just got Rosario as well, so just options.
Unless I already said that, there's more to happen. My
Yankees need to do more jazz. Chisholm was a fun trade.
But Winker to the Mets. Braves just going back and
getting their heroes. My two favorite storylines. Like I said,
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tune into the Talking Baseball live stream or watch it
on replay for all our reactions and all that. Second
thing I want to talk about is we went to
the Yankees Red Sox game and Fenway last Friday. It
was a great series. There's a lot of stuff happening.
One thing I noticed I walked away from that series
being like, damn Red Sox had a ton of doubles
and the Yankees could not stretch anything into a double
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in that game, and it felt like the Yankees every
ball down the line Sodo couldn't cut off and the
Red Sox could. So Verdugo had this hit, which I
will zoom in a little bit. Verdugo had this hit.
If you can see it. He's a lefty, righty pitcher.
It's a flair line drive like flair over the third
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baseman's head to the left side where it's cut off
by ref Snyder and Verdugo is held to a single
because the ball didn't get past the outfielder, not hit
that hard, but still he got there in time. Every
ball that the Red Sox hit down the line, Sodo
didn't wasn't able to cut off. You have this one.
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It goes on the shortstop side of third base past Cabrera,
and Sodo can't get to it in time. It hits
the wall, bounces and it's a double. But I think
if the Yankees were running, it's not a double. And
then the next one again, right, man, is that the
same one? No, it looks like the same one. It's
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not the same one. Okay, this is another double, same
thing past the past Cabrera. Runners are going to score,
Sodo gets it, Volpi's telling him throw the second. He
throws the third Red Sox have a double on a
ball that could have been cut off. Then another one,
and this one's on the third base side inside the bag.
Don't know if any fielders cutting that one off because
it hit far hard down the line, gets the wall
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and cuts it off. But that led me to think, okay,
positioning aside, the Yankees just get no hustle doubles, like
they have no infield doubles. And then that led me
to the thought process of, well, which team has the
most groundball doubles? So on Baseball Savant, I went and
I said, let's sort it by the player were from
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the batter's point of view, the batted ball type is
a ground ball and the result is a double, and
then we'll sort it by team. All right, so you
kind of need speed or perfect placement to get these.
The Royals have the most with thirty eight, then the
Reds with thirty five, then the Diamondbacks with thirty four,
then the Orioles with thirty three. That's a lot of young, athletic,
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speedy teams. And the Yankees are oh, they're not tied
for last anymore. They must have had one recently, because
last time I checked this, they were hide for last
place with the Marlins, who only have fifteen. The Yankees
have sixteen. Now the Giants have seventeen, Seattle's eighteen. Let's
see the most recent one for the Yankees. Tell me
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it was Jazz Chisholm and he just no, it was
Sodo yesterday. Yep, inside the third base bag and it's
gonna go to the corner. Slicing shot from Sodo yesterday
gets them out of last place on this. And then
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I wanted to look at then what I also wanted
to look at. Naturally, my next thought process was, okay,
what about balls that like bloop over the infielder but
they don't get past the outfielder. So what I did
was I changed it to distance projected and it's under
two hundred and fifty feet and it doesn't have to
be ground ball. It can be anything now, and what
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I'm going to calling these are either replacement doubles or
hustle doubles, mostly hustle doubles. So which team has the
most hustle doubles? Right now? They are getting the extra base,
the orioles, the Twins, the Reds, Diamondbacks, Royals are the
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top five. So the Twins find their way up there,
and the Yankees are twenty eighth out of thirtieth. Seattle
is twenty ninth, so that's a common theme there and
Pittsburgh is thirtieth. And I was like, okay, so the
Yankees just the Yankees are slow. They don't grab that
extra base. They don't. You don't put pressure on the infield,
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like if we do singles batted ball type ground ball,
and then I, oh, you know what I can do.
I can change it to batteredball location and we can
choose first base, second base, third base, shortstop. So this
means that that's the player that touched the ball first.
So these would be infield singles. The Reds have to lead, well,
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I don't know if they have to. Wow, No, the
Brewers lead. I thought Ellie would have the Reds up there,
but the Reds are actually, oh my goodness, they're dead last.
I thought Elliot of the Cruz and his speed would
just get them some infield singles. Dead last. The Reds
are dead last. Jimmy's dumbest shit. Welcome to the show.
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I'm Jimmy Okay, listen to this. Fifth place has ninety
infield singles. Fourth place has ninety three, so we climbed three.
Third place has ninety four, so we climbed one. Second
place has ninety five, so we climbed one. First place
has one hundred and eleven, so we climbed fourteen. So
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the Brewers are leading the pack in infield singles, and
I wonder who's got the most. Willia Damis has a
good chunk here, Jackson Curio has a and William Contreras
has a ton. Okay, damn, they're just a team that's
playing hard. They all have a ton. Wow. Let's go
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watch a random one random, random, random this one third, Well,
I don't I don't know if that was a good
example of something the Brewers are doing right. But played hard.
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Some teams don't run and then they get tagged out.
Here's another one quickly. Wow, they just get down the line.
I guess, all right, good job by the Brewers. So
then then what I did. I had this little sheet
I was gonna fill out and we'll do this quick
best groundball team, all right, So I'm gonna use baseball
savant search, and I'm gonna say the the type of
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hit is ground ball. I don't care where it went to.
I don't care what the result of the ground ball was.
I just want all ground balls sorted by team. And
then in the included stats, I'm going to do batting
average and slugging percentage, and then we're going to find
out which teams are the best at hitting it on
the ground and which teams are the best at hitting
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it in the air. Now, the Miami Marlins have the
most ground balls hit by a lot, thirteen one hundred
and fifty nine. They have a two to forty three
batting average of two fifty six slug The highest batting
average team with ground balls is the Brewers, and I
guess we should have known that because we just did this.
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So best ground ball team Brewers. As far as batting
average goes, I guess they lead in slugging as well.
They do. Brewers, So we're gonna say Milwaukee slash Milwaukee.
They have a two ninety eight slugging on ground balls
and a two to eighty one batting average on ground
That seems crazy. High way to go, brew Crew. Last
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place your Reds, and then my Yankees, and then the
White Sox and then Toronto and then Cleveland. Who's got
the least slugging? The Yankees have the worst slugging, so
it would be Cincinnati. Yankees have the worst slugging on
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ground balls because they can't get doubles out of ground balls.
They're very slow, Just a very slow team. Let's switch
it to line drives. Now, who's the best line drive
hitting team? Dodgers. The Padres hit the most line drives.
The angel Why is that not sorted? The Angels are
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the worst? My bad Angels fans? The Giants. The San
Francisco Giants are the best line drive hitting team as
far as batting average. They have a six seventy one
batting average when they hit a line drive. Who's got
the highest slugging The Mets. Where to go, Mets, two
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teams in dual cities, two teams per city, Oakland when
they hit a line drive, My Goali, it's it's it's good.
The slugging's nice. Yankees have the third highest slugging on
line drives. All right, Who's got the worst batting average?
The Angels have the worst batting average online drives. And
then the Cardinals. No, no, no, The Cardinals have the worst slugging, okay,
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fly ball, let's just go down the list. See what
we got. Who's the best? This is gonna be like
the Yankees just because of judges' numbers on Homer's no
idea could be the Dodgers. Dodgers have hit the most
fly balls. Then Baltimore than Minnesota, highest batting average, worst
batting average, White Sox than Rangers than Cubs, best batting
average on flyballs, Boston then New York, and Boston is
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way ahead because the Monster. I mean, they have a
wall that turns flyball outs into singles or doubles, So
that makes sense that they're the best. I wonder if
they always lead the league in this categar. Slugging worst
White Sox so the worst White Sox. When they lift
the ball, they stink, and the Red Sox have a
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nine to eighty six. So the Red Sox are the
best flyball hitting team. And that makes a ton of
sense because the Monster is very, very shallow, so if
you hit a fly ball, you can get a home
run or a double and they're outs everywhere else. Like
I do wonder if the Red Sox lead that every year.
Last year, I'm gonna check last year the highest batting
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average on fly balls Atlanta. Boston was third high slugging
on fly balls Atlanta. Proven wrong right away once again.
Jimmy's dumb Hi, I'm Jamie. Uh do we do worst
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for flyball? This is the White Sox both times? Right,
bumber and just for shits and giggles, because I don't
know how pop ups usually outs, usually outs. Toronto has
hit the most pop ups. Wow. The Pittsburgh Pirates have
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never had a hit on a pop up. One and
eighty four pop ups, zero hits, zero slug Wow, a
bunch of jumps over there in Pittsburgh can't get their
pop ups to fall. Who's got this? Has to be luck?
Ooh the windy City Chicago, tell me that's just win based.
Chicago Cubs have the best batting average on pop ups.
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They don't have the best slugging though. Who got the
best slugging Boston? How did they even rank that? All? Right?
Which team has the most hits on pop ups? We
know the Pittsburgh Pirates don't, So Boston has six hits
on pop ups. They have a double, a single, a single,
a triple, a single, a single, So that's what gets
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on the slug is that triple? Let's see, all right?
This one is that Fenway? Is it a monster? Oh?
No way, oh no way. Okay, So what happened here
is third baseman and shortstop just looked at each other.
I got it. You take it. Situation. So that helps
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them out there. Way to go, Red Sox. Now we
got what's this one gonna be? Line drive? Okay, that's
considered a pop up. I would consider that a flare.
It's like a thirty feet high Maybe next one at
Fenway again? Okay, uh oh no, the domis the shortstop
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calls for it and then says, never mind, I'm blind
and I'm scared. Let's it drop. So this is just
a luckstat. Okay. This one is not at Fenway, but
it's a day game in Saint Louis, and it looks
like they're going to be blinded again. Oh man, off
this glove blinded again. The Red Sox really know how
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to play the sun Runners on the corners, tie game,
bottom ninth, Oh Sunday night baseball. They won on that.
Huh damn. But I gotta see how the Cubs got
their pop up hits. They got a single here, all right?
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So that's like another flare job. It's not that high.
Patrick Wisdom with a single on this two oh pit
which dead center fastball ninety seven, way up in the air.
First baseman coming in coming in falls between him and
the second baseman. Brooks just gave up on it all right.
Suzuki singles on a pop up to Ozzie Albi's he's blind,
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Sun got him. This has nothing to do with skill. Yep.
On this one, Wisdom again, and he's terribly mad. Wow
is Wisdom the league leader and hits on pop ups?
I mean he's just hitting it to blind spots. Pat
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Patrick ian hat with a flair. Oh, that's I don't
even know how to I don't even know how to
discuss that one. It was a little pop up shot
that just bounced. That one drops. Guys, I'm doing one
more thing. I'm sorting this by player name, pop up
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bass hit. I want to see if Patrick Wisdom as
the most with two or is there someone that's getting
the best of Oh Jazz Chisholm has a lot so
Nick Casiano's, Brent Rooker, Jaron Durant, Tyler O'Neill, Patrick Wisdom,
Jose Caballero, Caballero and Chisholm all have two and now
for the third section of the show. Today it's just
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fun facts. If you don't enjoy the fun facts, let
me know, because of a lot of you are say hey,
I'd rather a topic than just a bunch of fun facts.
Let me know. But Dalton Prepsy's fun facts and I
enjoy them. Sometimes I read them beforehand, which leads to
a fun fact becoming a main topic. Sometimes, like today,
I have not read them. I've decided I'm gonna play.
I googled on you a YouTube news background of music,
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and I'm gonna bring you the fun facts as a
news anchor. Here we go. On Monday, the Mets batted
around twice in a three inning span, the bottom of
the fourth and the bottom of the sixth, first time
they did that in a game since nineteen seventy six.
Spencer Schwellenbach joined Jared Jones and Masahiro Tanaka as the
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only pitchers since at least nineteen oh one with sixty
plus strikeouts and fewer than ten walks in their first
ten career starts. Where to go schwellin'back Jones and Tanaka.
Tyler Phillips Thremattox in his third career start on Saturday,
becoming the fifth Phillies rookie to do so. A nine
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inning shutout less than one hundred pitches. The d Backs
are seventeen and eight over their last twenty five games.
Five of those losses have been blown saves in the
ninth inning, four by Seawald and won by Martinez Ouch.
Five of the eight losses they had the lead that
would have made them twenty two and three over this stretch.
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Would that have changed the deadline? Did see four blown slaves?
Saves change the deadline? The Giants have beaten the Rockies
twelve straight times at home. The Rockies tied their record
for most consecutive losses at an opponent opposing ballpark. The
Rockies go to San Francisco and they lose, lose, lose,
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and then they leave. The Giants struck out fifty three
Rocky batters, the most by Giants pitchers in a four
game series. Wow. Matt Chapman recorded his twelfth stolen base
of the year. He had eleven stolen bases entering twenty
twenty four in seven seasons. How about that. On Friday,
Patrick Wisdom hit the first pinch hit Grand Slam for
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the cub since David Body's walk off Grand Slam on
August twelfth, twenty eighteen. On Sunday, Xavier Edwards became the
first player since Fred Lewis on May thirteenth, two thousand
and seven, to hit their first career home run and
record a cycle on the same game. Congrats to XE.
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On Friday, July twenty sixth, Trevor Rodgers became the first
Marlin starting pitcher to earn a win since June eleventh,
Buck Congrats to Trevor Rogers. Trey rog Pete Crow Armstrong
is now nineteen for nineteen and Steel attempts, tying Rex
Huddler for the fourth most consecutive Steel attempts to begin
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a rookie season since nineteen fifty one. And that concludes
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