Five and Dive, Episode 297: Episode 297: Ugh in PGH

In Episode 297, Jeffrey and Craig discuss five mostly baseball topics.

1. Chase Anderson Facts: Back for one very long night only
2. London Calling: The Cubs and Cards faced off in England, but can the league make more out of these games?
3. Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of ummmm: The Pirates are no longer frisky and now may have forgotten how to hit.
4. Around the Horn: The commissioner speaks again, unfortunately. Some more call-ups, and a very hot recent call up.
5. Craig tries his hand at the lightning round.

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Episode Transcript

(00:11):
Welcome to episode two hundred and ninetyseven of five and Dive. It is
Monday, June twenty sixth. Iam your host Craig Goldstein, editor in
chief of Baseball Perspectus. Joining meas my co host today Jeffrey Pattern and
roster lead prospect writer for Baseball Perspectus. Jeffrey, Before we get into our
first topic, I wanted to bringup it's this is it's like slightly delayed,

(00:33):
but I think there's a little bitof a news hook here. Harley
Coulberson has elected free agency. Thatwas a while ago. I'm no,
well he elected it. He washe was designated for assignment. Yeah,
so he's he's elected free agency.Did you did you talk about his stint
on the you know, and well, I was that he was that he

(00:56):
was now that he was on theroster face he was on the braves for
a month and didn't get into agame offensively, defensively, anything. This
feels like a dream scenario to me, I mean to you, actually,
I'm sure it does. No onewants to work anymore, Craig, Yeah,

(01:17):
that's right. I this is incredible. What like, I don't do
you know that? I mean I'msure someone was called up for like September
call ups and never got into agame or whatever. But funny things like
to set Pepper coll ups, theyusually try to get into games, right,
I mean that's well, I guessI was thinking like someone who's on
the forty man, but not necessarilyeither a prospect or like someone who's never

(01:37):
played, like just someone who's likethey're like, I'm sure it happened on
some in some capacity from May toJune on a team, like on a
good team. Yea that is playingand Orlando Arcia, but like is down
fists. Yeah no, look,Orlando or Cia is having a great year.

(01:59):
I'm not Charlie Colberson should not beplaying over Land or see. I
thought he might get a get aday off. Yeah sure they were it
up like some game fourteen to twoand you just want to get him out
in the seventh or something and yeahyeah, like I just he was in.
I mean, he was on.It was like a month and he
just never got into a game.It is living the dream during if you

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watch as I have done probably fiftyor sixty times now, the like inside
match Day highlights of Sheffield Wednesday's playoffrun. Um, I don't think he
did. Yeah, so I denisa Denner end who's like one of their
squad midfielders. It was in thesquad for both the second leg of the
playoffs Toby Final during their big comebackand the Wembley win, but didn't get

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into either game. And he isjust having the time of his life.
Like in the post game, heis just absolutely like but the best,
the best seat in the house.He's sitting there on the sideline watching them
come back from from four nil down, and there's like a shot like in
the tunnel of like everybody's coming inthere. Course he didn't play. Everyone's
like exhausted. They played one hundredand twenty minutes plus penalty kids, they're
excited, and then it just pansback to a Denner and just like screaming

(03:07):
come on, like like totally likepeffing down the peffing down the tunnel.
Were like, it's hilarious. He'shaving the time of his life. Yeah,
I guess what I'm I'm saying hereis when the Braves win the World
Series this year. Full full sharefull share full share. All right,

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on that note, we can getinto our first segment. Chase Anderson facts,
They're back one time only they're back. They're back. I think this
is it, Jeffrey. I thinkmight ever Chase Anderson. But it's also
the Rockies, So who knows.Yeah, well, I was gonna say,
Chase Anderson facts, our dad longlived, Chase Anderson facts, we
got one more. The Rockies hada game, they did well. I

(03:53):
guess I should say the Angels hada game. I will know. The
Rockies were active. The Rockies wereactive participants in this game. It takes
it takes. It takes two togive up twenty five runs. You gotta
score them, you gotta give themup. The Angels won twenty five to
one. They absolutely took their theirfoot off the pedal, which was no
fun because they put twenty three tonothing in the third. An yes,

(04:15):
I was sitting on a twenty oneto six PCL game. It is the
age was updates on that kid.It's the Angel's affiliate, so they do
like the out of town scoreboard orwhatever. I think it flashed up like
it was like thirteen to nothing inthe third or something, and I'm like,
oh, I'm like okay, thatthat can happen, right, in
a in Coorse. You know howmany gets off that start? Then I

(04:41):
looked down when I like get inthe MLB at at bad at because it
was a twenty one to six game, so my mind might have been wandering,
uh in one of those seven runSugarland innings and like, oh it's
a I think it was like,oh, it's like eighteen to nothing.
Now that's a that's a lot.And then then it's twenty three or nothing.
That's that's a that's like different.Right at that point, it's weird

(05:04):
stuff comes into play. Yeah,we were getting some very good notes on
like the Broncos hadn't lost by twentythree in a number of years, and
like the Broncos were bad ye lastlast year, I think last few years.
So guys how it was like itwould have been the third worst loss
of the Nugget season or something.Right, Um, Chase Anderson started this

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game, he did, would youlike to give the fact you have?
Well, someone else unearthed it,but yes, it's from at SSC six
twenty seven on Twitter. Chase Andersonin that game gave up home runs on
three consecutive pitches. I think itwas what was trout moniac was like Moniac
Warred trout something like that. Ituned out when I saw Hunter Renfro and

(05:51):
Mickey Moniac we're both five for five. By the way, do you know
who the last person to give uphome runs on three consecutive pitches is Craig
Well? I have the documentary thatis honestly, like I I legitimately laughed
when I saw that, Like thatis that's InCred almost half like it's almost
a credit to Chase Anderson in oneway, because you have to be like

(06:14):
a pretty good picture to be allowedto do that twice. Yeah. Yeah,
we should note Shohiotani went one forfive with a single in this game.
Crea the reverse the reverse. Uh. I would also like to note,
but after after this game, likeimmediately after this game, Yeah,

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Mike Masakis was traded from the Rockiesto the Angels. That's gotta be yeah
experience. I said this on Twitter, But what do you just walking?
You walk into the clubhouse? Whata fucking wind boys fucking pasteed them just
absolutely reck there. It's moralized overthere. Uh Yeah, And this forced

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me to reconcile the fact that Ihad not followed what Mike Mustakis was doing.
In Colorado at all. He's beenfine. He's been fine. Yeah,
I mean it's Colorado. So liketwo seventy sixty or thirty five isn't
great, but better than I expectedfrom Mike Mustakis at age thirty four.
We should as you mentioned, theAngels did lose this series, which is
the most Angels thing that could havehappened. It's incredible, the run differential,

(07:24):
they absolutely, yes, took ithome. Yes, but oh so
what is what? What so thelast thing on the segment chef, Like,
what do we do with the Rockies? Like, I don't think we
do anything with the Rockies. Thisis just another Like it's not even you
just you just keep going. Everybodykeeps going, The Rockies keep going,

(07:46):
the Montrads keep going. But butBud Black retains his job. Yeah,
Mike Mustakis goes, it's not Bud. It's not Bud Black's fault. Really
no, Yeah, I mean Idon't even uh we should add The Angels
also added a Duardo Escobar along withMustakas because their infield depth is a bit

(08:09):
of a mess with Zach Netto onthe IL along with I now Anthony Rendon
and yeah, Escobar immediately went likethree for four in this game too,
I think, yes, yeah,what what did uh I missed? How
Orshella? How did they get apelvic fracture? I don't remember. Okay,

(08:33):
I thought it was on a slide, but I don't remember that.
I mean that would that wouldn't makesense. So but look, I'm looking
at this team, and I willsay I think that ops plus sometimes dings
Coors in ways that might not befully fair or whatever. Ryan Man has
a one fourteen ops plus, Eliasds has a one ten. Uh,

(08:58):
Nolan Jones has been fantastic, He'sgot one forty two. He's playing regularly
now. Mustak has had one ohseven. Randall Gritschik one oh seven.
But like in terms of the regularshere CJ. Cron bad than her.
Harold Harold Castra as a sixty sevenOPS plus. I know Ezekiel Tovar has
been better. He was really reallybad, and he's climbing up. It's

(09:22):
up to eighty six right now.Pro far not good. Brenton Doyle really
bad, Chris Bryant Badden and her, Charlie Blackman, okay, and then
her. I mean, this teamhas nothing. Kyle Freeland has been okay,
everyone else in the rotation. Noone is better than an eighty six
rs ear a plus like it's itis. They have some decent relievers.

(09:46):
They might be the only team sellinglike relievers at the deadline at this point.
Like Brad Hand he can get Danieljustin Lawrence. I think it's pretty
good. Jacob Byrd. They bothhave a ton of control after they gonna
be weird trades. But yeah,I mean Brent Suter has been good.
I don't think he's got a tonof control. Um, yeah, I

(10:07):
mean this team is just it's theRockies. Man. I don't like,
as I put in a document,like do we make anything of the Rockies?
What do we make of the Rockies? Can you make anything of the
Rockies? They are? I mean, yeah, I don't know. It's
honestly, like some level of art, you know. It's just like what's
in the eye of the beholder,Like it's not it's not gonna change.

(10:28):
This is just what it is.They are. I keep meaning to write
an article about this, but Ihaven't quite found the actual hook for it.
They're like a they're like an oldschool, like fifties union job.
Like once you're in the organization.You will get to the majors, like
you will be promoted through the ranksafter a certain number of years. Like

(10:50):
Coco Montez and Brenton Doyle are startingregularly frough for this team, Like they
don't. They don't really need outsidehelp. It's a family business. You
just find another cousin and Cocomantez isthat cousin. Yeah, yeah, no,
I think it. I think Ithink they need to rebrand. I
think they need to get a corporatesponsor. Is the Fast and the Furious

(11:11):
brand, which is the Fast andthe Furious franchise, And they need to
be left a million. It's family. This is what we do. Pat
V. I got like a thousandbats for them or something. They just
think he really did, Like youcan just go and look like I'm just
gonna pick a random Let me picka random yard goats see them. Let
see the two thousand, two thousandand one twenty one yard goats that was

(11:37):
not a particularly good or prospect theteam. As I recall Cocote on that
team. I thought he was onthere in two thousand and one or two
twenty one. Why he don't knowwhy I keeps saying two thousand and one
twenty twenty one Hartford Yard Goats.So it's like, oh, Karloffman and

(12:01):
we got Ryan Feltner Sean Bouchard who'shurt, but it might have been like
he would have gotten I thought hewas actually maybe not that man. Maybe
Ellie Hurst Montero keeps showing up.But yeah, Karl Kaufman. I remember
Davis. He's been pitching a bunchfor them this year. Davis gave up

(12:22):
like twelve runs in this game thatwe're talking about. Well, I think
the other part is I think Ithink Chase Anderson was like the best pitcher
in that game. He might havebeen, well, they'd stopped giving up
runs at some point, right,Well there went up and down this year
too. But like there's guys likeI just used tea him, Like Hunter
Goodman is absolutely playing. He mightcatch for them at some point. To

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uh, Vladimir Restutio, who's liketheir center fielder that swings at everything like
he's fifth outfielder for two years orsomething. Jonathan Daza, he's gonna have
the Jonathan Dazza roll. Yeah,more or less. Um, Julio Carreras
is going to be a backup infielderand like the Allen Trey Homo, they
just like keep replacing these guys.It's the same. These these are like

(13:09):
fringe forties that I was gonna say, like in most orgs, you'd be
like maybe like two or two weekguys. Yeah, two or three weeks
you need somebody, or he's gota hot streak or in a weird in
a weird you know, like justa team is in the desperation mode and
it's like you can guarantee all ofthese guys are gonna I mean, they

(13:31):
did show up, but hasn't pitchedin two days and we need an extra
arm. Yeah yeah, yeah,I mean I remember you saying, like
I've seen like nine Carl Kofman startsand he was like destroying double double Light.
I think at the time he waslike great, you know Kap or
nine or whatever, and it's like, well he's like twenty five and like
these guys can't touch him. Buthe's also it's it's it's also it's not

(13:58):
that it's it's long for him tobe in the majors or any team,
but like he's gonna be up allyear. Yeah. Feltner was really good
in Double A but it was alwayskind of like fringeet stuff. And he
actually throws pretty hard now, um, like he throws ninety five ninety six
with a ninety mile hour slider.He still gets hit a ton, and

(14:18):
obviously he's out for the season.It's like a comebacker. But yeah,
it's just all like if Jamison Hannahever gets healthy for a six week stretch,
he's probably gonna be up at somepoint too. Like I just wanna
I want a small prediction that thatno one will follow. We'll forget about
it at the end of the year. Carl Kaufman has a two point zero

(14:39):
three eight whip right now, yeah, above or below two At the end
of the year, he'll get itbelow too, was like one point eight
Yeah, okay, all right,enough on the Rockies. Let's go to
our second segment. London, Colleen. We had the Cardinals and the Cubs
in London, two two games set. This year. We had some morning

(15:03):
baseball. I woke up over theweekend to or I was up, but
I saw people logging on to belike, wait, what the hell,
how is it the fourth inning already? Um, I won't get up.
I won't get that up early.For like the early Sheffield Wednesday derby kickoffs.
I'm not getting up that early forCubs Cardinals. We sent some real

(15:24):
mid teams to London. We didn'tsend our best. Yeah, I mean
there's like some stars though, right, Like yeah, no, I looked.
The Cardinals are loaded, right,They're not good, They're not good,
but they're loaded. Um. TheJustin Steele was fantastic, which it
is a highly you know, avery high offensive environment. Um. And

(15:50):
for his you know, his abilityto keep the ball on the ground and
in the park, he flourished there. The team split the Cardinals. Well,
I mean, I think the Cardinalsgave about four and Liberatory about four
in the first inning at the secondgame, and then they really shut things
down. They came back against MarcusStroman, which was, you know,

(16:11):
I not something you could assume.This year, he's been extremely good.
Apparently as a blister that impacted hisstart. There's also some defensive issues.
I know tree Mancini dropped a ballthat he tried to bear hid for some
reason. Um that that led tosome runs. Jordan Walker is up to
like fifteen game hit three for four, but he is hitting over That's what

(16:34):
he did. But you go onefor three every day. You are a
pretty good season. Yeah, it'snot bad. It's not bad. Um,
how do you feel about this?So like MLB has a few promotional
series going right now, they hadwe're not getting Are we getting the Field
of Dreams game this year? II don't know. I know they're doing

(16:56):
the game in Birmingham next year,right next year, right, which is
like a continuation of the field.It's basically just like we're gonna make Fox
put their actual marketing behind yes,two games or whatever, and that's fine.
I think that's Actually we've talked aboutit at the time that they should
absolutely be doing this at Hinchlift inin Patterson. You know, they should

(17:18):
do the five remaining New Groleague fields. They should absolutely. Rick Wood is
a tremendous place to start. I'mvery much looking forward to that. Um.
They did the Mexico City, whichTHEWN one felt like it came and
went with with, Not that itwasn't a big deal there, but it
felt like it happened very fast.You know, in the season, it's
like, oh it's coming, andit's like, oh shit, it's here.

(17:40):
Then it's like, oh shit,they gave up, like seventeen runs
and then it's like over Yeah,I don't know, you know what I
mean, like the getting getting itin front of them with London, with
the times own difference, obviously it'sa little, uh, a little trickier.
And he said when they play inJapan and always they're talking about doing
what the Dodgers and padres in Koreanext year or two. So right,

(18:03):
right, that doesn't get a littlebit trickier. And it's like it's good,
right because a lot of this isjust about expanding to the local markets
and you know, pushing it morein London than in you know, on
tot of MLB network more broadly,I guess makes sense. But I know
you can have a little bit morefun with it than they do, I
think in in what capacity, likehow do you do marketing, presentation?

(18:29):
Just drawing attention to it? Yeah, I guess you know, I would
be interested. So I had thegame on and I know someone in my
family I honestly don't remember who itwas at this point asked me like,
is it more like expats at thisgame or is it is it like locals?

(18:49):
Fairly, I mean, I'm surepeople fly out. That's a fairly
vibrant British baseball community at this point. Oh, there definitely is. I'm
just kind of I am kind ofintrigued, like what the ratio is?
Uh, you know again, Icaught some of it Tim Kirche and was
like interviewing he kept interruining Americans,Yeah, flying out for like the Mets

(19:12):
Philly series. Yeah, so,I mean that's that's kind of the thing
that I'm wondering, like, isit like, oh, let's go you
know this, let's take a vacation, let's include this as part of it.
I'm sure, I'm sure that,I'm sure there's a decent amount of
that, But yeah, I would, I would guess it's a it's still
a pretty serious majority of you know, Englanders, you know, British folks,

(19:37):
But like, you know, Iwas kind of curious. Um.
I do think it's good that MLBis expanding all this stuff internationally. You
mentioned the Korean games, They've donegames in Japan. Um. I understand
why it's it's complicated, but Ithink long term, this is a this
is a very good, good playright up until they said them the Mets

(20:00):
Phillies next year. Craig Well,Well, I mean had a weird series.
We've been not not really right.We've been badly lacking Mets Philly's energy
for like the first five games,but they kind of made up for it
yesterday. At least, I wouldsay two straight Uh was it two consecutive

(20:25):
hit by pitches to score runs orwas a battery in between? Whatever?
I thought her? I thought hestruck out. I thought struck out somebody
in between. But yeah, you'reright, it was a rough go for
for Jeff break On. Um.So I don't want to get into like
because we're Mets Podcast here, butlike everything about this is everyone's everyone's mad
at Buck, which I think isfair. So here's the thing, right,

(20:52):
what's not doing a great Look,So what I would say is Buck
is not doing a great job withwhat he has. I would also say
what he has in terms of likerelievers at least is not good. Now
here's he did have. He didhave robertson yesterday, he had Atavino.
I thought he said said in thepost game he was available to pitch,
and told him he was available topitch. Wow. So the thing is

(21:14):
when your player is undercutting you likethat, that might point to a larger
issue in the clubhouse. But thingtoo is if you if Raley and Amino
aren't aren't available, Carrasco has gotto come out for the fifth. You
got to get the extras. That'sthe part. Well, you got to
manage the game backwards at that point. What's interesting is like I thought that

(21:36):
was actually a good move to takehim out when you know it was I
thought it was too. But again, yeah, I agree with you.
And look they got they got twoinnings at a Grant Heartwig, which was
bonus, I guess. But onceyou get in, because I think a
lot of people would say, whoyeah, once if once you get into
the eighth there, now it's yougot to use your guys. Right.

(21:57):
You can start the ending with JoshWalker in the Lefties if you want,
But once he gets in trouble,it's got to be Robertson. And it
certainly asked me Robertson instead of Vininatotally like, yeah, I don't know.
It's there's a lot of stuff goingon, and nobody wants to ask
the questions about what actually is goingon, so stuff will just keep going
on. Well, I and Ithis is this is poor prep. I

(22:18):
mean I should have pulled it up, but I believe it was wasn't.
It wasn't Sim Britain. It wasTim Healely sorry, one of the Tim's
the yeah the beat, Sim's confusedfor a second, Tim Heely had they
asked Buck about that. Do youwant to know when you're gonna die?
Or whatever it is? Yeah?Yeah, it was just like who's gonna
pitch on Tuesday? Like who's startingon Tuesday? And he's like, what

(22:41):
is it with you people and knowingwhat's gonna happen? Do you want to
know when you're gonna die? Andit's like, look, buddy, I
I feel you had that look I'vehad that's a good funny quote when you're
seven games over five hundred instead ofseven games under five hundred. I don't
think it was funny. I thinkyou probably was, but like it plays
differently when you're seven games over versusseven games under. Yeah, I just

(23:06):
think like it's also like, look, I understand the press is annoying.
I do. It's it's part oftheir job to be annoying. I think
they would say we can be annoyingwhatever. I think. Knowing who's going
to start, it's a fairly basic. The next game, not even two
games from now, is not evenits just like, remember the graphously part

(23:29):
of the job, right, rememberthe graphic of like the Mets Nationals upcoming
pictures and there's just like four tvasfor the CPS. Yeah yeah, I
mean like it's it's so clearly partof the job. But beyond that,
it is like such an anodyne partof Like it's like it's not even like
Hestering. It's literally just like,hey, can you tell us who's starting
Tuesday? And he's like, youassholes are always trying and and it's like,

(23:52):
buddy, this isn't top secret information. How does just help the New
York Mets Just say just say,you know, I don't know right now.
I'll get back to you, likeI don't know, you do whatever
the hell you want. And look, I like Buck. I I am
a fan of Buck. I likehis stupid little stories. I like his

(24:12):
his you know, his little rejoindersor whatever. Yeah, it always yeah,
every job yeah yeah, and againlike this is I like him.
But this, I guess what I'msaying is like before or after the All
Star break, over the All Starbreak, but before the deadline. Yeah,

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Okay, let's go to our thirdtopic, Yoho ho and a bottle
of um. We've done frisky checkins on the pirates. We've declared them
not frisky. They are extremely farfrom frisky at this point we notice,
yes, but I will say Isaid I needed to bring this up.

(24:57):
You did on the podcast when Isaid I sent it to you, uh
at David Sorry, David Todd,who covers the pirates at d T O
N Pirates uh DT on Pirates hadthis stat that absolutely this is better than

(25:18):
it's It is occupying my brain insuch in such a way. Okay,
okay, so he said he quotetweeted someone that talked about kind of a
bunch of pirates who were struggling,and he said more on this. On
June fourteenth, Austin Hedges homered inthe top of the fourth and Castro singled
in the sixth Rodolpho Castro. Sincethen, including today's game, so that

(25:42):
is eleven days. Yeah, Jihumbais over thirty, Jack Sewinski is over
twenty nine, Rodolpho Castro is onefor twenty five, and Austin Hedges is
over seventeen. That is in total, one for one oh one itting the

(26:03):
combined point zero zero nine nine remarkable, as he says, that is remarkable.
Jeff, Holy shit. So likemost players right at some point,
I don't know about over thirty.Over thirty is really bad, but they'll
take an over seventeen or one fortwenty five. Yeah, that'll happen.

(26:26):
Yes, be having four playing likelook or at the same time, Austin
Hedges is not a high average hitter. Austin Hedges is not a fair enough
Yo, what would you say forAdolpho Castro is probably a true talent,
like two fifty hitter or something likethat. Yeah, I don't that's fair.

(26:49):
So win skis in that range,maybe a little bit lower. So
I mean Castro is at two thirtysix after I mean in the midst of
this streak, he was two thirtythree last year. Um, you've all
always liked him a little bit better. But even if he wanted to,

(27:11):
say, a two thirty hitter,I think one for twenty five is like,
you know, yeah, that's that'sthat's tough. I mean, look,
you got guys like like Max Munsey, Will will have these extended streaks
where like he's just his timing's offor whatever. Where he'll do a one
for you know, fifteen to twentyor whatever, where he's walking the whole

(27:33):
time, but he's just not hitting. I mean he he basically has had
this. But it's also when hehits, it's all power right, like
it's it's home runs or it's it'sbut like and look I've said on Jack
Sewinski when he's going good, Isaid, like the flip there is the
flip side, Like this is oneof the streakiest guys here. It is
over twenty nine. And look toJack Stewinsi's credit. Do you know what

(27:56):
he's hitting right now after this,like thirty it's two seventeen, but two
seventeen, three thirty six for seventyeight he's got an eight fourteen ops including
an over twenty nine that will morethan work, you know, credit credit
to Jack Zewinski. But like thisis when I you know, when I

(28:17):
said the cold the cold streak iscoming like this, this is what I
was talking about, Um it is. I think I think the staggering part
to what you said is to havefour guys doing this at the same time.
And also, look, Hedges isover seventeen, but the other the
other ones. These guys are gettingtwenty five plus at bats in an a

(28:37):
you know, ten to eleven gamesstretch. They're they're mostly playing every day.
Yeah, Pirates one for nine andthey're one and nine in the last
ten. So yeah, I mean, like, I guess the thing is
like like these are this is somethingwhere normally you'd get a guy a break,
but like you can't get all theseguys a break at once. I
don't know, call up Drew Maggieagain. Well they called them, they

(29:00):
could call it. They they calledup not just they called it Nick Gonzalez.
Um, Andy Rodriguez wouldn't surprise meif he's coming up. I mean,
what's interesting? So the Pirates arethirty five and forty two. They're
five and a half back of theReds. The Reds have lost two after

(29:22):
winning eleven in a row, butthey were wild ones with Atlanta. They
were competitive. Um do you Idon't believe the records are winning. So
I look, I like the Reds. I think they are risky. They
had a very they had the winningstreak. They lost, they lost two
to the Braves whatever. They playedBaltimore Pitching they're starting and Luke Weaver.

(29:51):
They got Andrew Abbott there too,but like two out of three games,
and it's a pretty good lineup.Start, Well, you're you're going to
need to see Connor Phillips at somepoint, yeah right, I mean like
that is I saw they need toget then you getting hit Hunter green Houp
and that didn't feel like it wasgonna be a missic a hip thing.
I don't know how long it's gonnabe, but I saw she trans They
didn't want to call Philip straight upfrom Double Aga the tack ball. We'll

(30:12):
get them to Triple A for afew starts like now, yeah, like
now, I would also say theywant to live in a row and I'm
just eyeball laying on the lineup.They ran a lot of the slugfests,
Yes, slugfests, but also onethree, D four or five six one

(30:33):
run wins and and look, whenyou're going good, you win one run
games like yeah, yeah, askedthe Marlins. But they are this team.
I was just looking on one rungames. They're seventeen and fifteen.
They that's actually pretty even. Theylost a lot of them early because they've

(30:55):
won a lot of them lately,right, is what I was gonna say,
look, one of the best clothesall of us too, so that
does help to YEA, yeah,yeah, Alexis I mentioned him. I
think on within the last two pods. Look, I don't fully buy this
team without more pitching. Uh.And look, even if you bring up

(31:17):
Connor Phillips with Abbott and Hunter Greenand Nicola Doola, look, I think
you can dream on that. That'sa lot to ask on a lot of
young guys who haven't been particularly healthyor they're in the NL central right.
No, that is that is Iguess what I was going to say though,
because I was trying to frame thisaround the Pirates is the news came

(31:37):
out this morning and John Paul Morossiuh broke it that the Rangers are asking
around, sniffing around Andrew Cutchen.If you're the Pirates, you know Ben
Sherrington recently came out and said BobNutting said like he can do what he
needs to do to like add atthe deadline, what do you what do
you do? You know? Thisis this is the best start to a

(32:00):
season you've had in a long time. There's some there's some life to this
roster to the fan base right now. It almost feels like it's not great.
Fifteen under again now and then whatdo you right, there's seven under
right now? But you've got you'veI mean, there's you're getting a breakout
year from Mitch Keller, you are, uh, I mean Brian Reynolds has

(32:23):
I have checked in on him ina line actually, but he started out
on fire. You know. AndrewMcCutcheon has been fine, Like that's that's
going well for you know, welcome. Yeah, Reynolds is having a great
Brian Reynolds season, which is verywell. You can you can draft Paul
Skeins and put him right into yourmajor league rotation. I wouldn't. I

(32:43):
am not a I'm not a scout, I'm not a draft guy. Whatever.
I would not advise doing that.I would take Dylan Cruise. And
also, if you draft Paul Skeins, you probably just shut him down for
the rest of the year. Yeah, uh yeah, because he's what is
he going on three days rest?I assume he's going on three days.
They haven't announced anything now, Um, he's probably at least really being multiple

(33:06):
if nothing else. Uh. Speakingof like twenty five to one games,
that was a game two for forFlorida. My god, Um the no.
But but I guess the question islike can can you I think it's
this this is it's so stupid righton some level, but it's really tough
to trade Andrew mccutchin, like theyabsolutely should, but you brought him back

(33:27):
specifically, like you know really,I know he's been good. Um yeah,
I don't know what I had thisconversation. You're the Rangers, if
you're the Yankees, right, it'slike what are you getting It's like the
same primes, like like what areyou actually getting back for Tommy Fam?
Like what are you actually getting backfor this profile? And like the Mets
should probably just trade Tommy Fam becausebut it's Tommy Fam. But like Andrew

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McCutchen and the Pirates is a differentkind of team and player relationship. So
you really like, what are youactually getting back that makes it worth it?
Yeah, I mean I think,uh, it's it's a big I
know people think like this stuff shouldn'treally matter, but they're trying to get
fans invested in the team. Thiswas a reunion and like to cut the

(34:14):
reunion short for a I don't know, what do you get like a like
a c starting pitching prospect or somethinglike, you know, like essentially just
for a few years of control ofa of a guy. Now, look,
maybe you know the hope is youturn that guy into something. But
I don't know, man like that, that's it just doesn't seem word.

(34:37):
It just feels like they're in they'rein a they're in a weird spot,
and like I don't they probably shouldbe selling right at least they're relievers um
Alderman Moretta. Those guys again,you're the same problem with like Burden Lawrence,
Like it's like so much control onthe control, right, I do

(34:58):
value that, And I know whohim is older and an injury pro and
Moretta is older and it's only reallydone it for thirty innings. So there's
an argument to sell high on thoseguys, assuming you can produce more of
them out of your system, whichis I mean told him and they traded
Vogel black fur. But the ideathat you know that you should be able

(35:21):
to find more seventh inning guys eitherdevelop them internally or you'll locate them.
Yeah, And look, I meanI know they in this one and nine
stretch like I did. They wereup I think three on the Marlins at
one point, and they brought inCarmen Mojinski in the eighth and he blew

(35:44):
it, and you know they I'mlooking at the bullpen right now and it's
David Bednar has a one five Rright. I know Moretta has been good.
It's a three eight two. JoseHernandez is hurt. He had a
two sixty three even holding room wasup over four by the time he got
hurt. They used him a lot. I don't think that's really his fault.

(36:06):
They really used him a lot.But like, there's this this bullpen
is not deep, you know itwhy it felt like it early in the
year when they were winning, andI just think like they've they've burned out
a little bit. I know RohansiContraris was throwing in the bullpen a little
bit. That might be his ultimaterole, which is weird. Man,

(36:27):
I don't know what's happened there.Again, I've not dug in well.
They they've called up Louis Ortiz,which makes sense, and he's been pretty
good in the rotation. But like, yeah, it is weird. But
I saw him tom bitching in relief. I don't know. Um, he's
definitely not missing as many bats asI thought he would RANSI but yeah,
I don't know, just just atough spot. We do need to mention

(36:50):
the uh city connects. Yes,your thoughts why did they pick that shade
of yellow? Yeah? I don'thave an answers, like it's it's mustard
basically. Um. And they havesome really you know, maybe divisive,

(37:15):
but I think interesting looking yellow jerseysin their history. This is not one
of them. This is just ugly. Yeah. I mean, look,
I would say this just feels mostlyuninspired. Yeah, I mean like it's
it is not remotely one of theworst city connects. No, but yeah,
but it is just it's there,right, Like I don't I don't

(37:40):
understand. It's just they did theIt's PGH across the chest. I mean,
it's fine elements at all really toit. Yeah. Yeah, it's
the thing that I really um,I was just I was looking at it
and thinking about it, and Ithought, I bet a lot of people

(38:01):
it just it felt so specifically designedto be so generic and about Pittsburgh that
even non baseball fans like might buya sweatshirt or a T shirt version of
it and just walk around, youknow, like it's just representing Pittsburgh and
not which again it's like a cityconnect that that's fine, but like it

(38:22):
just felt like, I don't know, there's a lot of stuff in Pittsburgh
historically that you can draw, thatyou can draw on, and I just
felt like ears, Like I didnot like the Baltimore ones, but at
least like they had something, youknow, it was it was inside the

(38:45):
shirt, it was on the partyou don't see, but at least it
was there, you know what Imean? Look what I don't get like
this all ron lately of city connectsthis year has been kind of underwhelming.
I think, Yeah, I cream. I was in the telling time at
the park because I walked around theSalt Lake team store and they go on

(39:06):
to Angels stuff. The Angels CityConnect Pound is actually quite nice. I
think the Angels City Connect jersey,again well being not particularly adventurous, is
really good. Yeah. I alsomight just have a bias towards like cream
jerseys. I didn't cream instead ofjust like the standard white. It tends
to really good, right, Imean, at least it's good looking if

(39:27):
nothing else, right, Right,it's very esthetically pleased. I really like
the Angels ones. I know,people were like they should make them the
regular one. You know, Idon't go that far, but like,
they're very nice. I like them. I think they're like if they're there
Friday Jerseys. I also do haveto say, while we're on the subject
of the City Connects, the Rockiesgetting absolutely land based as well. Wearing

(39:49):
the City Connects wasn't it was.There was just like an at a small
thin added layer of hilarity to it. Right, Um, yeah, all
right, let's take a break andwe'll be back with the last two topics.

(40:20):
We're back with episode two ninety sevenof five and dive our fourth segment.
We're going around the Horn, Jeff, I get to be honest,
I missed this. Uh Manfred wantedto punish the Astros players more where he
said, I think this was partof the London thing. Dude, when
he asked him about the Astros orhe's an oppress or, and he basically
says like, yeah, if Icould do it again, I wouldn't give
them immunity. Basically I was like, well, okay, well the investigation

(40:43):
would have stopped immediately because then ohthis guy, I'm so I'm so tired,
I'm so tired of this guy.Yeah, we're gonna get more of
this guy. Yeah, I know, and look into another fresh confidence at
the All Star Game in three weeks. It's gonna be he's gonna say at

(41:06):
least two more stupid things that.Yeah, Mark Norman didn't wrote for us,
and I think he's exactly right.But like a different commissioner wouldn't be
a better commissioner. This, thisis this is a job. This is
the guy who's doing the job right. Like it might not be rob Man
Britton, it might be, butlike the upside you get is just like
someone who lies better. Yeah,which isn't necessarily what you want. Um,

(41:30):
sometimes it feels like what I want, like, don't be so insulted,
right at least just like at leastlike it doesn't have any it doesn't
have any real real world implications,but like not calling the world's based trophy
a hunk of metal and things likethat, just like the little like just
might like I don't know, makesyou feel less bad to be a baseball

(41:54):
fan. I actual better so likeMark, I you know talking with Mark,
which I've I've done a lot likehe and has a very strong grass
with the history of the commissioner roleand all this kind of stuff. I
mean, he talks about like peopleseem to want bud Ceiling, right,
which was this like car salesman.Yeah he'd lied to you, but he'd
get away with it, right.But the thing is like everyone kind of

(42:15):
hated boud Ceiling too, right,So, like, I don't have a
problem I think is that people don'tactually realize what the commissioner's job is.
Mark obviously knows too well that peopleand like like reporters, longtime baseball reporters,
treat it like it's it's it's notwhat it is, right. They
give it the veneer of like whatthe early commissioners were, So I mean

(42:40):
it's really only Kenneth. Yeah.They think that's what they able to do,
right, And they they kicked outfay Vincent like as soon as possible
when he had like the temerity toyeah yeah um they yeah, you know,

(43:01):
and bart you know, Bartiamani kindof had the same kind of at
least interest in preserving the game.Right. I think they've had people in
the role that that they were like, oh, this guy gets it,
but it's like he got it forwhat you want it to be. But
not for what his bosses wanted tobe. Rob Man forgets what his bosses

(43:23):
wanted to be and just funny.Bosses don't like he barely got No,
they don't barely get through. Buthe, I mean for this kind of
role, this kind of role wasa little bit of a there's a there's
a very loud minority that did notwant him in the h and the big
seat. Um. And then butI guess I go back to like it's

(43:51):
his honesty or or like the Iguess the lack of a of a mask,
right, the mask soft nature ofthis stuff, And I think I
think we see this in a lotof roles, right, or in a
lot of capacities, not just inbaseball, but like the mask off capacity
is like it's so insulting that likeyou're just gonna tell me you like there's

(44:12):
nothing I can do about it,and like I'm stuck with this ship and
that kind of stuff. And butthe flip side is like if he were
actually more effective, it would itwould really be worse, right, right,
Like they sort of like the ideaof like the the customer is always
right is like a bad thing,but maybe you should at least like not
directly insult the customer repeatedly like thestuff you care about, I just don't

(44:37):
care about it. I know I'msupposed to be running this business, but
I just don't care about the thingsthat you, the consumer of my product
cares about, and don't ask you. Yeah, and he just like,
as I said, like, Iam just so tired of this guy and
him constantly sticking his foot in eitherhis or my I don't know whose face

(44:57):
it is at this point, becauselike I want to say, it's like
he's sticking his foot in his mouth, but nothing matters. It doesn't matter,
it doesn't impact him in any hastyconsumers. So right, yeah,
right, Oh, it's it's nota good situation when I'm like, please
lie to me better. I wantmy I want my stupid stories like please

(45:19):
just uh speaking of some honesty though, Jeffrey Uh, Kevin Cash was a
little a little surprised, at leastto me, surprisingly runs the year of
not keeping it in house. Yeahright, Uh. Wander Francos sat for
two games, I believe, andKevin Cash said he is not handling some

(45:43):
of his Uh was it his failureswell or like he's struggles not being a
good teammate, and he said it'snot the first time that you know.
They were like, he's fine,he's a good kid. He's gonna like
it's not a problem. This isjust the thing. And like, look,
I'm sure all of that it's true. To your point, why are
we hearing about it? I guessthey wanted to set him for two days.
Like you can set him for oneday and you're going to get question,

(46:06):
question, it's two days. It'sa little weird and like Zach Athlin
did a whole weird able to It'slike, yeah, like I knew he
was. He was like like aguy that needed love. It's why I
asked him about his family and stuff, and he's like he's a good It's
like really, it's like the tenaround is just really weird. Like I
don't I eventually in the Austins andsomething, I'll probably come out, well

(46:30):
what actually happened. But it isa little, uh, a little weird.
I mean, look, I thinkwe can acknowledge that, like clubhouses
are very weird. Yeah, likeit's like a workplace, but it's a
very weird dynamic in general. Um, this this still though, is yeah,

(46:51):
I mean, to your point,it's it's odd to have these guys
kind of opining on this publicly,just like it was to me when Ali
Marmal did this in Saint Louis andand that kind of stuff, Like I
guess the question. The most recentthing I'm I'm kind of connecting this too,
though, is is like the Tatisstuff in San Diego, where I

(47:15):
know it's a very different situation.He wasn't hurt whatever, but like there
was a lot of like overtures tolike maturity. Right with Tatis, it
doesn't quite seem to be that situationwith Franco, But like what I would
love if you're gonna come out hereand say like he wasn't a good teammate,

(47:36):
Like what does that mean? Right? In? What? In what
capacity? Like what is being selfishmean? Or like what is it?
You know? I don't know,Like is it just like being the baseball?
Is he breaking water coolers? LikeI don't know, like when he
pops up or like you think youknow that? And also like do you

(47:57):
guys really care about that? Veryweird Yeah, like thirty game he's been
one of their best players and he'sgoing to get MP But well, I
guess you can do that when ofyour thirty games over five hundred. On
some level, it's like, youknow whatever. I also I still think
like two days he's just like,oh he needs a blow. Like we're
just giving him blow, give hima mental reset. Everything's good. He's

(48:19):
going to be back in there onSaturday. Not a problem, you know,
Briston, brush it off. Youcan't again your thirty games or five
hundred. You can also do that. They're not good night, which is
what is with you guys wanting toknow me? Yeah. Uh, we
had a couple of call ups recently. We mentioned Nick Gonzalez. Uh,

(48:40):
he doesn't even really rate at thispoint. I'm kind of dismissive, but
kind of where where things are.Uh, Jordan Westburg is coming up today.
It's gonna be in the starting lineup there. It's a little a
bit of a weird situation because likeGunner Henderson until he has a six hundreds,
that's the weird part. I haveno problem with this, But like

(49:01):
Gunner and Henderson wasn't even playing likea regular position. And dh af fairbait
too, which is weird when headvanced any Santander. But and Ryan Mountcastle
well Mountcastle's hurt, I will,you know, but like Henderson has played
a lot of third uh, someshort, you know, he's he's played

(49:23):
fifty games at third, fifteen atshort, seven at dh uh. I
don't know. It's just it's justkind of weird that like they've been moving
him around and then it's like,okay, we're just injecting another body into
this. Next to your point,it's not that weird when Jorge Mateo has
Adam Frazier, which a kind ofplayers that we're over lap with this position.

(49:44):
So I don't know if he's gonnaplay second short both, right,
That's that's kind of the interest isjust like the the alignment to me is
like where I mean to So theydo they do. I think it's a
good move. I think it's toyour point, overdue contending to Ruin.
Yeah, yeah, well in thatvein as well. The Guardians are calling

(50:07):
up or called up Gavin Williams.He did not have a great debut,
he did not start um, buthe is. I mean just it was
against Oakland, I think, andit still wasn't great. Never, their
lineup is not awful, it's reallytheir their pitching is It's not good,
but it's not as bad as asit could be. I think, Um,

(50:29):
I mean he's majorly ready though too. We talked about this a little
bit with Shane Bieber and that kindof thing, like do you do you
think he's just he's up for goodat this point prob Yeah. Um,
I mean again, we talked abouthim when I when I talked about how
they might, uh they might tradeBieber or something like that, and he
could step in and see where youare too. Relative to that, here's

(50:52):
the thing, it's very hard forme to see a scenario where Cleveland's at
least not within striking distance of thetwins. Yes, and well no,
I did I You used it inthe phrase. It's like a like a
kind of a two step thing whereit's like, you promote Williams, you
trade Bieber, you get something foryour lineup back, because the lineup is
is where the problem problem. Umyeah. Congratulations to the twins, by

(51:14):
the way, they are a gameover. Uh. The Guardians are only
two back. So credit credit tothe Guardians for again maintaining that that kind
of distance. Um yeah, reallyexciting. In in uh, in Cleveland,
you get Williams by by Alan Mackenziegets healthy again. Like that's the
other thing if they have a gooddiagnosis on Mackenzie. I don't know.

(51:37):
I mean that's a solid four.I know it's a lot of young guys,
but like, don't you consider it? Yeah, I mean, depending
what you can get back, Isuppose, but yeah. Uh. In
other news, in other power youngarm news, Uri Perez, is you
sent me this over the weekend?Uri Perez is just legit? Yeah,

(52:00):
as the kids say, he's notlike he's starting to throw like six innings
now. He was a little homerprone in his early starts, less so
and his more recent one. He'sjust yeah, he's just h Yeah.
Fifty four strikeouts in forty seven inansfifteen walks, he's twenty. He's twenty,
I think, and this is thewalks are a lot, but thirty

(52:23):
one hits in forty seven. Yeah, like he's that's like I think,
just young pitture adjustment sucks. Healways threw strikes in the minors. I
didn't kill Oh, I'm not.Yeah, I'm not worried about Sorry,
I don't I'm not worried about thewalks. I'm just saying, like it's
it's under three per nine. It'snot a huge walk, right. What
I'm saying is allowing only thirty onehits of forty seven inans as a twenty

(52:45):
year old in the majors. Youknow, you might say there's some regression
coming in, and there probably is. He allowed more hits than that three
ra He's got a little to getback. Yeah, but this level of
stuff I mean is yeah, crazycrazy good. Um And and look the

(53:06):
Marlins. I know, Patrick andI wrote about the Marlins. We talked
about that they are nineteen and fivein one run games. I think that
Look, I think the craziest partis Sandy Alcantra Alcantara. Sorry, um,
it's been bad, just bad.Yeah, like kind of like every

(53:27):
time out there, I noticed thata couple good starts is not getting chases
or missing bats anymore, which islike a weird thing. But I don't
know if he's as he can fixit. But this guy is now,
he's the new Sandy Alcantara, youknow what I mean. Like he's not
going nine innings every time out there, but like, man, this is

(53:50):
the pitching development. Do you thinkMax Meyer comes back by the end of
the year. Yeah, I don'tthink that'll rush him. I mean maybe
you could see him in relief orsomething. If they keep you know,
they're they're back eleven games over fivehundred ran. Now if they stay in
that race, I could see themkind of pushing to happen because that bullpen

(54:12):
is no no short thing. No. Uh, you know, Lazardo has
been a braxting Derrett has been likestruck out thirteen recently. That was the
Pirates. But you know, yeah, no, the pitching, the pitching
is legit. They really need bats, yes, but I don't know.

(54:37):
Part of me, part of melooks at this. I think when I
started looking at this stuff to writethat article, Jesy Sanchez had a five
hundred slug. He's down to fourto fifty three. Yeah, I mean
that one's gonna happen. Um,what happens when Louis Rise isn't hitting four
hundred? I mean, like that'squestion. Sounds like Jazz is gonna be

(54:58):
back reasonably soon, Okay. Imean they they desperately need him. He
was not good really before he butthey and the absolutely upside. Uh,
this is a weird team. It'sanother Yeah, I don't want to face
him. I don't want to facehim in a short series. No,

(55:20):
yeah, I mean right, Ithink this this is obnoxious. You throw
Uri Perez, let's say, let'ssay they're in the three game, right,
the wild card. You throw UriePerez one of the games. Yeah,
you throw Hazel's Luzardo one of thegames. Yeah, do you throw
Sandy start in game one? Istill want him starting. I think he

(55:45):
I think he has. You gotto start in game one, but it's
a mazin right zero and he startszero and zero. You gotta start.
I think it starts game one.Yeah. Everyone else in this rotation,
and I know Edward Cabrera is herright now is striking out at least ten
per nine. Sandy Alcantara is strikingout seven. And you've got a defense

(56:08):
full of second basement. Yeah,I don't know. I don't know.
Working so far, our last bitof our last it is working so far,
our last bit of news. Yes, no, Bill Chrismott has elected
free agency, he has h andthe market is on the move. Craig,
I keep telling you Dodgers, pleasefor him. What I would actually

(56:32):
say to you is does anyone needhim more than the mess? So you
have to back things up a littlebit declared waivers, I think because the
team didn't want to guarantee him beforehe's at option, so you probably don't
want to guarantee him. You don'tput put him immediately on your bage league
rosster and can't option him, buthe can sign a minor league deal pretty

(56:52):
much anywhere. Uh yeah, Imean I don't I wonder if he's a
you just got off the eye owl, which one game for the Padres and
then got dfad for I remember SethLugo coming back, I think, Um,
so I wonder if he's a WBCguy because they stretched him out a

(57:15):
little bit in camp and then sendhim to WBC where he started once and
they had to come back and moveback to the bullpen. So I do
wonder if there was some knock oneffects from all of that to the bad
start to his season and then theinjury obviously, So I don't know if
that was a real injury or youhave a ten r A injury, But

(57:36):
we don't want to make the rostermove yet. But yeah, you always
need multi Every teams need multi ennyrelief help. So it's good you didn't
pick the right situation. He's twentyeight in the last you know, he
had six games when it was athree two four r in Saint Louis in
twenty twenty three seven six St.Louis could two again in eighty one Indians

(58:01):
in twenty twenty one and at twonine four in sixty seven Indians in twenty
twenty two. I mean, theseyou get a guy who can go out
there and you can throw for twoIndians, whether it's a you're winning to
blow out, even if you jet, I think he can be He's not
a leverage job, but he canbe a middle Indians guy. But even

(58:22):
if he's just your mop up guy, he's giving you a decent, decent
work yet excited to see where heends up next. I'm saying that who
you said earlier the Mets have likeJosh Walker and the Lefties, and I'm
like, that's a band as faras I know. I don't like,

(58:43):
who are the people in the Metsbullpen that are better than him? Right
now? I mean, he's badright now whatever, But I'm just saying
in general, like I did aCraig, I had a whole bit on
this on three quarters Delivery about andthat was in twenty like twenty twenty of
like chers in the Mets full fenthat were better than Nabula Chrismatt, and
there weren't many, so there weren'tthings changed tomorrow. I don't know.

(59:07):
I would take him over dominic Leonevery every day of the week, but
they could tell him to throw hislike sinker down in his zone and mixing
his slider and they didn't know.Still, the change of Peterson's back.
Baby, he's throwing the slider alot in Triple A. He's not really
though, but oh I thought hewas. He did the first couple of
starts. Then I guess they toldhim to stop doing that or something.

(59:28):
I don't know. Perfect He's startingTuesday, so we'll see. Oh he
had admitted it. Yeah, he'sprobably starting Tuesday at some point. Okay,
all right, our last segment.Jeffrey, you've written the dreaded game.
I have written the dreading game.Um so I did listen obviously to

(59:50):
Thursday show because I did it.Uh, your performance was not good.
It was not so I don't thinkit's gonna be any better today. This
is this is the bit though,it is that I'm bad at all.
Listen to the shows while you're onvacation. I listened. I listened to
some of them. I did not, but in general, no, I

(01:00:13):
don't listen to the game. Sothis is one of Patrick Scanner. This
is the Lightning Round. Okay,I'm going to ask you ten questions.
You have five seconds to answer eachof them. Okay, they are baseball
related questions. Some of them areeasy, some of them are hard.
Some of them you absolutely won't get. Some of them will just are they
like? Are they like stat like? What kind of questions are we talking?

(01:00:34):
You'll find out as we as weslayed the game. I do think
we need to get like, uh, I don't just like there's like those
twitch streamers that were like blood fresherimpulse monitors and they're doing speed on.
You got to put on those ofthose start sweating, all right? So
you have five seconds for each ofthese questions. Who is the last team
to successfully turn a triple play?I don't know the Rockies, what full

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he's an affiliate? Is furthest fromits parent club oh Richmond? How many
teams of the current thirty just anumber have no Hall of Famers wearing their
cap? Three? Who is theactive leader in Baseball Reference War. I

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should know that I don't know.Who is the last University of Maryland player
picked in the first round, BrandonLaw? What is the maximum lank for
a Major League baseball bat? Thirtysix inches? What is Eddie Murray's career

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batting average three twenty two? Whatfull season affiliate is closest to its parent
club? Oh god, um,Dan Jose? How many Blue Jay's logos
did not have a bird on it? None? What major league make it

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one? What major league stadium hasthe largest seating capacity? Oakland? You
did better than I expected, inall honesty, the coliseum the last time.
It's got to be like Brooklyn,right, I mean fuck the last
team to turn trouble play of theTexas Rangers. Okay, sure, Richmond

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is the furthest full season affiliate fromits parent club twenty eight hundred and seventy
one, Miles, I just knewit was across the country. Baby.
There are four teams that have noHall of Famers wearing their cap Arizona,
Miami, Tampa Bay, and Washington. The active leader in Baseball Reference war
is Mike Trout. I was okay, I was going to say, Mike

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Trout, and I thought, there'sno way it's he's oh active lead active
leader. Yes, I was thinkingall time. The last universe a Maryland
player picked in the first round,Brendan Lowe was in the third round.
The last third picked in the firstround was Brett Cecil. Was it really
yes? Wow? Wow? WellI do before you continue, I do

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need to say, like universally ofMaryland is getting some some have a first
round this year, which is whyI right, Matt saw Yeah, Jose
Quash it was a third was likea fifth round third baseman. He's now
a reliever for the Royals, gettingsome weird show. Anyway, go ahead.
The maximum length for a major Leaguebaseball bat is forty two inches.
Oh wow, she is not evenEddie Murray's career batting average is only two

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eighty seven's in my head, he'sjust consistent three. The closest full season
affiliate to his parent club is actuallyLake County, seventeen and a half miles
from Cleveland. Brooklyn's twenty two secondYeah, okay, all right, how
far as soon, Jose, It'snot I mean, like I know the
thing, it was like thirty orsomething. I think, Yeah, okay,

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So it's not horrible. Uh,you're correct. Every single Blue Jay's
logo has had the jay did havea little Blue Jay head on it.
Yes, Okay, okay, AndOakland is the major league stadium with the
largest seating fascity. I wasn't sureif they because they they put the tarp
you know, mat or whatever theycall it all over that ship. Sofal

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officially it's like fifty six thousand orsomething, that's what I thought. So,
like, honestly, like the fiveseconds helped me and that one because
like I couldn't talk myself out ofit. It was the first thing that
came to mind. You know whatI mean, it's a good game.
Yeah, well I'll take it.I you know, I was close enough
on other ones that I feel likebecause the Mike Trout one is great.

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Yeah, that's I didn't I thoughtit was all time and like I said,
question, I you know you saidit. I I you know,
I have a new appreciation for thefast money people on Family feud. Um.
Who is the all time on onb REF four? I don't even
do you know? I think it'suh, bonds, isn't it. It's
bonds are ruth? Yeah? Thatwould make sense. I don't know.

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They've changed like defensive metrics stuff too, so I don't know if that's moved
bonds around. It is it isRuth. See this is I wanted to
say, is this just but no, this is players. It's it's a
bonds is only modern? Please fourthum, It's it's Ruth. And then
Walter Johnson. Sure, but that'sthe thing. I started going live.

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I was like, what's an oldplayer? Like? Who am I gonna
And then I was like, Idon't know. I was gonna say like
Hank Aaron, which would have beenworse. Frankly, we're like active.
Thank you, Jeffrey, that waswell done. Thank you for co hosting
this episode with me, and thankyou to our listeners for tuning into another
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