Episode 63: Will These Injuries Have Any Effect/Are The Giants and Devers Just a Running Joke

Big names like Bobby Witt, Jr., Jose Ramirez, and Ronald Acuna, Jr. end up on the IL this week.  The Jimmies discuss which one of these means the most to their teams.

Rafael Devers and the San Francisco Giants have more drama but no more wins.  

Transcript

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Baseball fans and baseball lovers, good day. Thank you for joining us for another episode with the MLB Clubhouse with the Jimmies. Um, I am Josh Patterson. I'm here with the Slay dude, Justin Slay and Wendell Pops Patterson. We got some big names going on the IL this week. We're gonna talk about the impact to the teams and to the season for those guys. Um, and we've got a little bit more uh Raphael Dever's drama. Seems like that's pretty much all we've been able to talk about with that guy for the last year, whether it's in a Boston uniform or a San Francisco uniform. Um we're gonna talk about if that's gonna be all we get to talk about with the Giants and uh Raphael Deber. So let's get into it, fellas. First off, I gotta shout out to my boy Crestone. Preston Bubba is gonna be seven years old tomorrow, fellas. Yep. Uh we're going to Legoland out in Grapevine and Rainforest Cafe. Oh man. Donuts in the morning, having a grand old time.

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I thought it was Crow's nuts because we're having Crow's nuts.

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Yeah, I think that's what it is.

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Yeah, well, couldn't think of a better way to spend my birthday than eating crow's nuts.

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So that's you gotta get a lot of them there. They don't fill you up. All right. So um we're gonna start off uh with a little American league. Um, Slay dude, give us some standings. What do you got?

SPEAKER_02 1:33

Man, just gotta say, gotta give a shout out to old Pops, Wendell Patterson now. As of tonight, the Yankees have a three-game lead over Tampa Bay. So Tampa Bay has a run differential of zero this year. Hey Josh. Now Josh is doing his Wendell impression last week. Oh, we're gonna get a little tongue. Except for last week, Wendell, like Josh's was blurry right there. You were like clear as day, and you were just I was like, I know what I'm saying is not that important, Wendell. You know what I mean.

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But you were staring a hole in my soul, Box.

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Well, you were tongue tonguing us, so there you go.

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And as we all suspected, you have a very short tongue. So that's okay. But uh Wendell was right, like we were saying, boys, and uh New York, Aaron Judgeless, New York, has a three-game lead as of tonight, as they had a four-three win over Detroit and Tampa Bay lost to the Bobby Whitless Royals 12-5. So maybe he was available off the bench, like we talked about earlier, Pops, but I don't think they needed him tonight. So there you go. Dude, Tampa, crazy, crazy, crazy. They have given up 333 runs and they have scored 333 runs.

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And the Royals have never scored more runs this year than since Bobby Whit got hurt. Yeah, they went double digits twice against the Cardinals.

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Unreal. I mean, yeah, last 10, New York 6-4, Tampa Bay seven and three boys. That equals a three-game lead there in the East. And uh Toronto only one game under 500. That gets you to eight and a half behind in the division, but that does get them to where are we just as of today? They would be the last wildcard spot. So we were all kind of right about that. Who are we thinking about? It's gonna make a surge. They're doing a lot better, so good for them. Talked about it last week. I think we'll talk about a little more. And as of right now, Chicago White Sox are the leaders in the central by a game. 41 and 37, same amount of wins as those Cleveland Guard Indians, and uh, but Cleveland has two more games in hand, and they have lost both of those. So that equals a one-game lead. And guys, as of right now, we just said Tampa Bay has a run differential of zero, right? There are two teams in the American League that have a positive run differential, so that's all we need to know about the American League. I won't spend too much time on that. Uh the the West leading Seattle Mariners, they are up uh two over the A's. Seattle did win tonight. A's and Giants just got started out there in San Fran, and the Mariners did beat your pirates Josh 3-2 tonight. A very A's game for them. So, but unbelievable. Seattle's 18 plus 18 run deferential. New York's plus 111. So uh, I think we can go ahead and say who we all think and know who the best team in the American League is right now, and it's probably gonna get scarier when Judge comes back. But it's the craziest thing ever, you know. I think was it last week, week before our Rangers did get to that 500 mark, and they just can't seem to bust above that. I mean, if you're gonna do that, this is the year, obviously, to do it. We are now three games under 500 after losing to the um the Marlins or Schumacher's former club, and they have a real early start earlier than usual tomorrow, 1110. So it'll be 12-10 their time, because I believe they have a six o'clock World Cup game tomorrow night. And the World Cup, it's been fun, but it messes with these baseball schedules in a good way. The Rangers had the very weird, was it against when we got swept by Minnesota, right? Yeah, we had a Monday, Tuesday, Thursday series last week because there was a World Cup game going on at Dallas Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Whatever the hell that means, okay? But uh kind of par for the course, guys, no movement at all from the top for any of the divisions except for New York getting a little bit of a cushion there with the three games, and Chicago having the sole possession of first place there in the Central. So talked about it last week. I think we're all in agreement. I think this team is for real. That's I mean, any division but the East, it's gonna be for real because no one else is doing jack crap. So uh that's all stat. I mean, and Wendell said it, you know, last year or whatever, I think the past nine Ranger seasons, the only season the Rangers have finished over 500 was 2023. And like 2021 through this season, I guess what are we now 79 games into the season? We've either had the same record or within one game of what we were through 79 games in every season, the past five seasons, except for 2023. I don't know if that's gnomon. We all know we just got to get hot at the same time, at the right time. So, I mean, there's still very much in this thing, but geez, can we please just get above 500 to get a little confidence? But that's what I got for us in the American League, boys. All right, so if it ends today, who's in? If it ends today, so we got New York, Chicago, Seattle as our divisional winners. We'll have New York and Chicago with the buys. How about that, right? And then Tampa Bay, number one wild card, Cleveland, number two wild card, and the defending American League Champs, Toronto Blue Jays, is the number three wild card. And our Rangers are only one game out of that wild card position. So there you go. It's crazy. No, and then I was talking about, you know, we had Father's Day. Oh, and happy Father's Day, gents. Hope y'all had a great one, a great weekend. We did Father's Day for my dad on Saturday, and Jared and I were talking. We're talking about the College World Series. So listen to the stat. I saw something today, and Wendell's Sooners won the College World Series last night at game three, must win. It was pretty stinking awesome. But listen to this stat right here. And baseball is maybe the only sport you can do this because you do have series or tournaments or whatever it is. They finished 11th in the SEC. They went 0-1, still got into the tournament, right? They faced number two Georgia Tech, and they were losing 8-2. They lose that, they're out, they lose in the regionals. The next two games, they outscored them 21-7. They swept the Big 12 champs, Kansas, in two games 21-3. They beat only top eight seeds in Omaha, 10 of their final 11 games. They had 43 home runs in their first 44 games of the year. They had 45 home runs in their last 19 games of the year. Baseball is a crazy, crazy game. And if anything, um maybe it's a chance for these stupid Rangers. That's all I'm saying. If we're only two games, two two and a half games out of this. But American League kind of status quo boys from last week.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 8:18

So, you know, I think the interesting thing, the um so the White Sox, right, they have taken over uh the division due to the beating the Guardians head to head. They had lost the lead and they've lost one beaten uh the Guardians the last two games. Uh the thing in the West, uh Cal Raleigh came off the DL tonight or IL tonight, hit his eighth home run. So if he gets back in that lineup, um that could they could really start the runaway that we keep kept thinking that they were going going to at some point.

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So well, we just hope I guess the rest of the American League sucks and we can sneak into a wildcard spot, right? That's kind of our pretty much.

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Yeah. So do y'all do y'all remember there ever being a team in the playoffs with a losing record?

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I don't think there's ever been one yet, has there?

SPEAKER_00 9:10

I don't I don't think so.

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I don't I don't think so. Nobody's ever qualified yet below 500. This could be the year, though.

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There's got to be a couple maybe 81-81, though, right? Maybe right at 500.

SPEAKER_00 9:22

I don't know. I don't know. Look it up. Worst worst record to get into the playoffs. What was the what was the Cardinals in oh six when they won it all?

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They were they were just barely over. They were like so they have they have the worst record uh of any World Series winner. Um they were like 80 83 and 79 or something like that. Sounds about right. All right, let's see.

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Lowest record strike year Rangers were only like two games out of first, but we were 10 games under 500.

SPEAKER_03 9:56

That might have been the year for it. Well, I want to say in '94 when it ended. I believe that they were in first place. Oh, geez, wow. In the West, but they were well under 500. It was pretty that was horrible. That was when uh was it Dave Raider was the manager, or was it Kevin King? One of those raging assholes.

SPEAKER_02 10:17

I don't even know any of those names, and I'm a humongous Ranger fan, so that tells you all you need to know about those years.

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All right, so 82 and 80. Worst full season record, 2005 Padres, and the 1973 New York Mets.

SPEAKER_03 10:40

Oh wow.

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So those were those both of those teams also won their division.

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Oh, yeah, you have a record.

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That was before all the '73. The Mets actually beat a really good uh Reds team to get into the World Series. Yeah. And then get killed by the A's. So what what what year was the Padres? Uh 2005.

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2005. And we know who won then. We do. The team that's leading the central right now. Chicago Whites. Chicago Whites. Who was their manager? He could barely speak English. Yes, that's who was it. He couldn't even allow the dumb.

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Yeah, but they I am not a dumb. Yeah. They're retiring his number. Oh wow. 13? Nobody wears that anyway. Yeah, not anymore. A bunch of guys used to, especially Latin ball players, coming up for uh was it aparicio? Was he the one?

SPEAKER_03 11:40

Uh no, he was he was six. It was probably for Gant.

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I don't know what superstition means, so I wear 13.

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Uh he was he was the one that said you can't you can't pull fat. If you let's see, lowest winning percentage, the 81 Kansas City Royals. 81 was the strike, right?

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There was a strike out.

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Uh they made the postseason because the season was split into two halves. Yes. The Royals won the second half of their division. But they fit were 50 and 53, a 485 uh winning percentage. So there we are. A little bit of trivia coming at you before we get started. All right, so let's talk a little bit about some injuries. Um so Bobby Witt Jr. Um with a knee injury. When I saw it, it was listed as day to day. Um, you got hey Sophia, you guys were saying that uh um he's available off the bench.

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Uh I mean I I heard it was worse, but he they never put him on the IL, so I guess it wasn't.

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Sophia has a big display for us, real quick. All right, what'd you have for us here?

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Uh uh to everyone listening. I would um recommend um listen um listening to the podcast in slow motion. It's awesome. Oh yes, awesome.

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Dude, we were we had some time on Friday. We ended up playing some indoor pickleball. We didn't know they didn't open until nine. So she sped us up, and that was funny. She sped us a slow speed, and it sounded like we were all just so hammered.

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It was funny. So if you can do that, do that.

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I'll I'll try it out. You won't be disappointed.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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Bye, Sophia.

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I just want to say that.

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Um, so yeah, so Witt Jr. Uh, you know, apparently not as as serious um as maybe trainers and things like that thought. Um so hopefully it's a short stint for him. Um, but frankly, if short stint or long stint, I don't know if that makes much of a difference in the Kansas City season. Uh one that might, Jose Ramirez, broken hammock bone. They're already um second place in the division. Hammett bone is usually like six to eight weeks. Um and he's one of two hitters that you recognize in the in the Guard Indians lineup. Um the other guy's hitting about a bug 90. Right.

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Yeah, but they wish he was on the I.

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Yeah. Um Judge, we talked about a couple weeks ago when he first got injured. I think he's coming back into July, but you know, he hasn't really his absence has not really slowed down the Yankees at all. Um and then Akuna Jr. uh messed up his hammy again over there in Atlanta. Um Walt Weiss was recorded on Espn.com saying that he's a long way from recovering from this one. So um he's always had leg problems. Um I think he spent a pretty solid two weeks on the IL earlier with the hamstring. So um we'll see how it goes. But let's let's start. So we kind of know what you know it doesn't sound like it's very serious. Um judge, we kind of know what the Yankees have been doing um with him gone. But my question for you guys is which one is more damaging to their team, Jose Ramirez or Acunia Jr. What do y'all think?

SPEAKER_03 15:35

I I think the Braves are better equipped to handle his his loss. I mean, there's really nobody in Cleveland behind Ramirezon as as he goes so good because he he does he's great defensively, he's hits the ball, um, hits the ball for power, he steals bases, he just he's kind of their he's their leader. Um, you know, Acunia is a great player, but he's not, I think, I think guys like Matt Olson and even Drake Baldwin are the leaders on that team, the ones that drive the the club culture and what have you. Um but um Atlanta's probably struggling a little a little bit more right now, but I but I I think it's Romerous for me.

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What do you think? Yep, no, Atlanta, I mean, struggling with it. Pops will get into it. They still got a six and a half game lead. They have been overtaken for the best record in baseball by surprise, surprise the Dodgers. But I I would say just by the record right now, by the lead in their division, by the season they're having, Ramirez is way more important of a player because like Pop said, you know, Quan's betting what, a buck eighty or a buck sixty or whatever you were saying, he you know, he's betting worse than Jock Peterson, for God's sakes. And so actually, Peterson, you know, all right, sorry, not to get off on tangent. We're losing 6'2 tonight, okay? Peterson hits a home run and he pimps it. You'd have thought this thing went 542 feet. It went like 340 feet, and if he'd have hit it four more feet to the right, it would have hit the wall because it's a little taller right there, and you've got a single out of it. It's like, what a jackass, dude. Oh, great, we're down six to three instead of six to two. You barely hit out and you pimp it.

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But, anyways, but so I got a pedo story for you.

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Yeah, oh I love so front.

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So that I was at the game Friday night against the Padres, right? So they go out and deGrom gives up five in the first, right? Slam, right? So yes. So here, so he finally gets them out, and pedo leads off the first. So he gets that ball to the uh to the pitcher. And the pitcher, and he's doing his you just like what we were talking about last week. He's lollygagging down to first base, and then the pitcher uh or the first baseman eats it to the first base. First baseman ball bobbles it, and then he starts to try to speed up, and then he tosses it to the pitcher, and the pitcher misses it. So he winds up getting on base on an error. But he would have been, if the pitcher had caught the ball, he still would have been out. And you know, it's just like, dude, if you'd if he'd have busted it out of home from home play, he'd have been safe, no question. And then uh the next couple innings later, he did the same thing. He had hit a ground ball and he ran hard right out of the box from the beginning from the from the beginning. So I I don't know if uh Skip said something to him or if he you know decided because if he hadn't gotten on, you know, that whole inning, you know, you know, they went up scoring six runs. Yeah, we haven't taken the lead after giving up five runs in the first. When's the last time he scored? But if he'd gotten out, you know, who knows how that inning might have played played out differently.

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But he was probably listening to our podcast in between.

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So I don't know if Skip said something to him or if he just kind of figured it out on his own on his own that he might want to move his ass down first.

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Skip gave him an iPad and said, fast forward to 4325 on this podcast, listen to what these guys have to say about you and all your dumbass friends. Like that's a perfect example, Wendell, right? I mean, it's a ground ball to first. And Josh, I think you said it, or any all of us said it last week, and we all are in agreement. It's like just take your first five steps out of the box because that ball got there that fast, and he would have at least been running hard the whole time. Yeah, it's just put your head down and pow. But all right, so that's our my Jock Peterson hot take of the week. But anyways, F that guy. Yeah, and but yes, I definitely think it's Ramirez because you know, where they are, they are now a game out, you know. I think I mean, shit, I just went over to Stanis, I should know, but I think they still would be in the playoffs because of our weak ass American league. But, you know, got to be careful. You know, you got a a good Chicago team. I mean, I think we all want to grant that team's good and comparatively to everybody, and they don't have wickle room. Uh, you know, Atlanta is struggling, as Pops said, but they've got some other players. They got Olson and and they got a good team. It's still a six and a half game lead, even with a Phillies team that's surging. So I definitely think just judging by standings, judging by who they're gonna be playing against and playoff percentage chances, you know, because man, Cleveland, you're not that high above 500. If they get below and fall out, then that could be a really tough thing to come back from to try to catch the socks in that division. So it's Ramirez for me as well. And Josh, I'm thinking you'll think the same, but come on, give us your HSO.

SPEAKER_00 20:27

Yeah, no, I think um I think Jose Ramirez, hands down. Um, the only thing that I would say against um that is the fact that they are in a weak division and a weak league. So they maybe they don't have a lot of room to play with the division since they're already behind, but nobody's running away with anything in the American League except for those Yankees. So um, you know, maybe they can just barely hang in there if they can hover right around 500. That's what the rest of the American League has been doing all season long anyway, and maybe they'll be able to stick in there. Um, Acunu Jr., great ball player, um, you know, game-changing kind of ball player, but Atlanta's been so good this season because it hasn't been one guy that carried this team. I mean, everybody's been contributing up and down that lineup. Um, pitchers have been stepping up when they needed to. Chris Sayles making another run at a Cy Young. Um, you know, he he's probably gonna, if he continues doing what he's doing, he's probably gonna be a Cy Young three or four this season. So um, you know, a lot of guys on a very talented roster over there in Atlanta. So um and Pops, yeah, I agree that you what you said, they have more talent on their roster to be able to withstand something like Ronald Acune Jr. going out. And let's be honest, they've over the last several years, they have played without Acune Jr. Jr. for a lot of it. So they're kind of easy for that, right? Um for for him not being there for the whole for the full season. So um they've kind of learned how to weather that storm. Now their plans might have been to weather it with uh steroid abuser provar.

SPEAKER_02 22:17

So that probably failed for I don't know if anyone has that plan anymore after his past couple seasons. But anyways, if they do then they need to fire their GM. But anyways.

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So yeah, I'm I think we're all uh I think we're all in lockstep there. Jose Ramirez, big big loss. Um and honestly, if if we haven't already hadn't already seen a couple of weeks of them without Judge, I think he would have been top of that list.

SPEAKER_02 22:43

But especially if it was two weeks ago we had this exact same discussion, they were three games out of first. But as you said, I mean they got enough talent too in New York, and they got some just hellacious pitching.

SPEAKER_00 22:57

Oh they're pitching is unbelievable. They do have Max Fried on the IL right now, uh, with the elbow.

SPEAKER_02 23:03

Yeah, you hear how upset I am about that. I mean, not for the dude, but about the team and the city organization.

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Yeah, those poor guys.

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So bad that one of your four aces is out and you have the best record and plus 111 run differential in the league. I think you'll be okay. Probably better than you know what we did tonight when our four starter Jack Lyder found out it's on the IL to the end of the season in Quantrell or whoever the crud it was that gave up five runs and two in the I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 23:32

Man, anyway, he had ankle surgery, or it was just they were going in to look at it with like a orthoscopic surgery on some some tendon or something.

SPEAKER_00 23:44

Yep, it happened. If it was the shilling tendon.

SPEAKER_03 23:47

I don't know. Well, you know, I you know, I think you look at the Yankees and you talk about uh obviously they're they're all they're known for their off offense, but you know, they're one of only four teams to have uh allowed less than 300 runs so far this year. Um and ironically enough, all four of those teams lead their division, right? It's them, the Braves, the Brewers, and the Dodgers. Um the only team in the American American League to have allowed less than 300 runs so far, 285. So it's weird that when you do that, I'd end up winning a lot of games, you know. Yeah, if you don't give up a lot of runs, you win a lot of games.

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Yeah, it's pretty crazy.

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Unless you're the Raiders because they don't score a lot. So there you go.

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That's magical.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:30

All right. Good stuff. Um, let's get into a little uh National League Pops. You got some stand-ins for us?

SPEAKER_03 24:37

All right. Uh yeah, so uh the Braves continue to hold on to uh first place despite uh three and seven in their last 10. They're they're winning tonight so far. Uh lost one to nothing last night on a Manny Machado fourth inning home run to the Padres. But uh the Phillies have been, uh, they've been surging, but uh they're still uh there's six games out. You know, they were ten days ago, they were 10, close to double digits. So uh they're they're getting there. Schwarber's heating up. The rest Brandon Marsh is one of the uh three top vote getters in the National League All-Star voting, so that's kind of interesting.

SPEAKER_02 25:12

Okay, that's pretty cool.

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That that is the only problem is uh uh there's uh they don't Jordan Walker's not on there for some reason, so I think the Cardinals are gonna start ballot box stuffing. Um you know the the the Marwins are having a pretty good pretty good run at it. Uh but yeah, I think long term they're not gonna have enough uh enough going. Uh the Brewer's still hanging in there. Um and the Cardinals still hanging in there. The Cubs finally get to play again. They'd had back-to-back rain outs.

SPEAKER_02 25:44

Um how many how many games are they behind St. Louis, though?

SPEAKER_03 25:47

So uh two two and a half with both with the result tonight pending. Uh and they have they're in sole possession of third place. Okay.

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We'll have an argument with each other tonight, then that's good.

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Uh but you know, I I think uh we'll see how the things with the with the pirates go. Uh they are now under 500 again. Um 4-6 in their last 10. They lost Skeens uh last start two to one. Um so you know, they just the the Reds are they're 500 in their last 10, but they're now four games under 500. And the Dodgers are just doing Dodger Dodger Dodger shit. They're they're the first team to 50. Um, you know, they're gonna they're running away against the twins tonight.

SPEAKER_02 26:34

Um, streak with the bad uh a bad streak for the Padres, excuse me. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 26:40

The Padres five and five, lost two out of three to the Rangers. Their lead's pushing double digits. Uh the Diamondbacks are 500, and then the Giants are trying their best to not finish in uh last place behind the Colorado Rockies. Uh they have an equal number of uh wins, but the Rockies have two more losses.

SPEAKER_02 27:01

But I didn't realize they basically had the same record. Dear look, go Rockies, let's go.

SPEAKER_03 27:08

Yeah, so you know it's it's interesting that the the Mets uh and the and the Giants have and the and the Rockies have the fewest wins in the major leagues of 30 31. Two of those teams I picked to be in the playoffs, so there's that.

SPEAKER_02 27:22

Um Colorado and San Francisco.

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San Francisco and Boston.

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Oh, my bad. My bad.

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And then the Angels are just one game a one game ahead of them with 32 wins.

SPEAKER_00 27:39

Since we're since since we're talking about the National League, y'all saw Bryce Harper hit for the cycle. His first one, wasn't it?

SPEAKER_03 27:46

Yeah, and almost did it again the next day. Only a triple shine the next day. Wow.

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And then the same game, Schwarber hit a three-run, or hit three home runs, had a three homer day, including two in the same inning.

SPEAKER_02 28:02

So we'll get into that later. Okay based on that. I think we know who my player of the week is. And Major League Baseball didn't agree in T Jack. They picked 20 years, and I I don't even I can't see how it's comparable, but we'll talk about that in a second.

SPEAKER_00 28:19

All right. Quick trivia. Okay. So that is Kyle Schorber's sixth three three homer game of his career, which ties the record, by the way, with three other players. Can y'all guess who they are? Afrod. He he has five. No. Bond? No, oddly enough.

SPEAKER_03 28:48

Ruth, I guess, would be an obvious one.

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No?

SPEAKER_03 28:51

Yes, anyway. No.

SPEAKER_00 28:53

Yeah, obviously, yeah. I mean, there's like big time, these are all big time power hitters. So y'all are on the. Jimmy Fox. Uh no.

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Guerrero.

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Vladdy?

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:07

No. So think home run race.

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Oh, McGuire, Sosa.

SPEAKER_00 29:12

Sosa, yeah. So Sosa had six of them. Um, McGuire had five. A-Rod had five.

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Mike Schmidt.

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Let's see if I can find Schmidtie on the list. Dave Kingman's on there. Carlos Delgado. Nice, dude. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 29:30

Delgado's up there. I actually only remember because he had a four-home run game one time. That's my reference for that guess.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 29:37

Joe Quata. Quota?

SPEAKER_00 29:41

Uh, so all those guys are like tied for third, right?

SPEAKER_02 29:44

They all have like five. Five. So we have so far. We have Sosa, we have uh Delgado.

SPEAKER_00 29:51

No, Delgado was tied with five. So the ones that are tied with Swarbs? You only got one, and that's Seuser. And we have four. And not, he's not a guy you would think. Oh, I was gonna say Judge immediately. He is a former MVP. It's not Trout, is it?

SPEAKER_03 30:13

There aren't any there are the only former MVPs are Shohei that are active are Shohei Trout and Judge.

SPEAKER_02 30:20

Yeah, I don't even remember the last MVP.

SPEAKER_00 30:21

That's like the last 27 MVPs in a row right there. He currently plays on the same team as Shohei. Oh MVP Moogie Mookie?

SPEAKER_02 30:33

Mookie. Mookie has six three home run games. Yes. Holy crap.

SPEAKER_00 30:38

Yeah. And then the other one is like World War II days. He was a Cardinal.

SPEAKER_03 30:44

Oh uh Johnny Mise?

SPEAKER_00 30:46

Yes, Johnny Mise.

SPEAKER_02 30:48

Dude, that sounds like a mobster name. Johnny Mice. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 30:53

Don't let me get involved with Johnny Mice. He played for the Yankees too, I think. And the and the he got this. So Schwarber, if he can do it again, he will be loan number one on that list. That's it, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:07

Wow. Yeah. Unless Mookie does it again. Because the rest of the guys on this list are retired fellas.

SPEAKER_02 31:14

I don't think Mookie's gonna hit three more home runs the rest of the season, but yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:18

I mean, he looks like he weighs about so Pooh's did it four times, Slate.

SPEAKER_02 31:23

I remember he did it once in the World Series against our Rangers, boys.

SPEAKER_00 31:27

Yeah, Willie Sargil. Oh, Aramus Ramirez. That's a blast from the past, right there. Oh, yeah. Old Chicago Pirates and Cubs. Yeah. Yes. Brewers too, maybe? Was he a brewer? I don't remember this career. Larry Parrish, don't know that name. Popshi might.

SPEAKER_03 31:48

Oh, yes. He was a Ranger third baseman.

SPEAKER_00 31:52

Yeah, uh Montreal Expos. Yeah, he did it for the Expos. Oh, with the Rangers. Yeah, he did it with the Rangers in '85. That's a good year, boys. He was a really he was a really good third baseman. Yeah. Now we see Ralph Kiner, Barry Bonds. There he is. Oh wow.

unknown 32:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:21

All right. So let's get into a little bit more National League. Enough trivia. That was that's fun. All right. Giants endeavors. We talked a little bit about it at the beginning. We talked a little bit about the Giants and how terrible their season's going. So basically, the gist of it was Devers, who is big and slow, um, was the tying run. He reached first base in the ninth inning. And uh manager wanted to pinch run for him, so he sent a fast guy out there. Devers waved him off. Um the pinch runner looked, you know, he was kind of stuck out there, like, what do I do?

SPEAKER_02 33:03

Like, you know what you call that, right? Whenever y'all will know this, when you get pinch run for and the runner refuses to leave the base. Think of Major, think of Major. Yeah. Oh, yeah. What was his what was the character's name? Remember? Dorne.

SPEAKER_01 33:18

Yeah. He's like, no, no, he's stretching out there, and then Dorn comes out the manager. Who is it? It was Tom, whatever it is. Tom Baringer. Yeah, he's like, Dorn, and he goes, Oh. Like shrugged his shoulder. And then everyone's patting him like on the back, right where he got hit, and he's like, ow, ow, ow. He got hit.

SPEAKER_00 33:42

And he was like, oh god.

SPEAKER_01 33:45

Like when he told him to get up there and take one for the team. And he looks at the barrel, goes, This is not my bad. And then uh the announcer, uh, was like, you know, all right, got Dorne's a pinch hitter, so obviously he must be thinking Dorns oh for the century against this guy. I don't know what the hell he's thinking.

SPEAKER_02 34:14

Anyway, so that's sorry, that's a tangent, but that's the only time I can ever think of in baseball history where a runner refused to get pinch run for a movie.

SPEAKER_01 34:23

Fictional baseball movie.

SPEAKER_00 34:25

Yeah, yeah. So he waves off, and we'll get into the the details here in a little bit, but uh eventually they figured it out. Devers came off the field, the pinch ranner ran. They they lost anyway, uh, got swept by the fish. And uh, as Devers is getting back into the dugout, bench coach is you know, giving him a pat on the butt, saying, Hey, you're you're good, stick with it, stick with it. He's kind of swatch the hand away, don't touch me, you know, kind of thing. Um Devers didn't talk to the media till tonight, basically saying, Well, you guys are the ones blowing everything out of proportion, that's why I don't talk to y'all. Tony Vitello in the post-game interview, um said those are the kind of players I want, the ones that want to stay in the game, and and you know, we basically have to drag him out of there. Um, I don't know that that's necessarily what was going on. You know, Devers apparently there was a hamstring issue, and he was thinking they were pulling him, um, not because he was slow, but because he has a bad hamstring. Um so if you're slow already, when you have a healthy hamstring, what does that mean? Yeah, he was just saying, hey, my hamstring's good. I'm still slow, but my hamstring's good, don't worry about it.

SPEAKER_02 35:44

Yeah, but tell us now that's cool. I'm really happy for you. Get your ass off the field though.

unknown 35:48

Right, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 35:49

I'm glad you're 100% healthy, but uh, you're still slow. So let's try to win this ballgame.

SPEAKER_02 35:54

Now go play first base.

unknown 35:55

Right.

SPEAKER_00 35:56

I play third. Um, so uh I mean the Giants season is pretty much in the pits. Uh Devers career has been in the pits for the last year. Uh, so you know who what what are you guys thinking? Is this is this all we're gonna hear about? Is just BS out of San Francisco for the rest of the season. You've got a college, former college coach who's never stepped foot in the big leagues until this season, managing them. There's been a lot of crazy stuff going on. Maybe it is getting blown out of proportion because it's Tony Vitello managing the team. So the media's taking advantage of that. But I mean, what do you guys think?

SPEAKER_03 36:48

Uh you know, I I I think the Giants are in a in a in a mess, and I you know, I think this guy uh whether he's actually to blame or not, he's gonna get blamed for it. And Posey's gonna get blamed for bringing him on board. You know, they got this whole thing with Devers and then the whole thing with the the base the players getting uh reprimanded or for uh riding on their helmet, on their hats for pride.

SPEAKER_02 37:17

Oh gosh, yeah, I forgot that's old for for all of that stuff.

SPEAKER_03 37:21

Um, so you know, I think it's just um you know, I I b I think Posey was trying to be innovative and outside the box bringing this guy in, but he is um he's paying paying the price. I you know, I I I think the team's gonna it's gonna be a mess. They're gonna have to trade Devers. Um think he works in that ballpark at all. Uh I he's still a really good player, but he is also a magnet for con con controversy. Yeah. Um, so um, you know, I and I think part of it, you know, I mean, I don't, I don't, I don't know. You think he's been here a long time? You think he would figure out a little bit of English?

SPEAKER_02 38:05

Yeah. He knows it. He just knew that he had to have an interview, so he's like, maybe it'll sound better if I can just speak in Spanish.

SPEAKER_03 38:13

I mean, I mean I get it for the for the Asian players, right? I mean, Japanese is a lot harder to you know, that's you don't have a lot of English spoken there, you know. So I I get some of those guys, but yeah, I you would think um he can he can speak a little a little English, but uh you know, um we'll get into it a little bit later on the losers of the week, but you know, Chapman's having a horrible year. He had a worse week. Um, you know, it's just it's just things going going down in flames. Um so I I think they're they're they're big better off if they can find a trade partner for Devers and try to move on.

SPEAKER_00 38:50

Yeah.

unknown 38:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 38:52

What do you think, Slay dude? What do you think of the whole thing?

SPEAKER_02 38:55

I think there's that old saying that uh kind of winning cures everything. And when you're not winning, kind of has pops and you alluded to everything's gonna be under a microscope. I think if this happened on a second place team or someone that's in the wild card and and things are kind of working out, and you like, hey, let's not question Vitello because he's working, don't question Posey because obviously bringing in this guy from Tennessee is working. But yeah, I or if it was a different player too, right?

SPEAKER_00 39:26

Yeah, sure.

SPEAKER_02 39:27

And I think with you know with them basically being mathematically or almost her one game and being the worst team in the league, I didn't realize that because I didn't usually pull up the standings when Pops goes over him. I was like, I'm just gonna see if I get surprised tonight, and I sure as hell did. So, but yeah, they're gonna, but him doing that crap on Sunday, you know, even needing to find a trade partner for you know for Devers. It's uh now he goes and becomes the Devers of old. That's a whole different story. But that's gonna be some team on the brink going, we're not taking on this contract for you to freaking fight our you know, your manager on the team over decisions that we're giving him the authority to make. So but they get yeah, I don't know. I think y'all know more than me. I think it's they're hard pressed to find someone take over that contract without eating some of it, without pulling a quote unquote who's doing better than us and not talking shit, but pulling a quote unquote cardinals here and saying we'll pay for three of his seven years left or whatever it is if you just take him off our hands.

SPEAKER_00 40:30

Yeah. Um, you brought up a good point, and I lost it. I had something to add to it.

SPEAKER_02 40:39

Yeah, it sounded like my wife, so that's cool.

SPEAKER_00 40:41

Yeah. Uh but uh yeah, I mean, oh, so back in the day, uh, I heard Buck Show Walter um was doing an interview and he was talking about how he, you know, he managed those diamondbacks uh with Randy Johnson and Kurt Schilling, and he would go out to the mound, and he so he wouldn't signal till later on, right? If you had the big unit or Kurt Schilling on the mound, you let them tell you. Um, you know, and uh he said he said Randy, nice. He said Randy would be on the uh on the mound, and he'd be like, I think I'm gonna pull you out, Randy. And uh he'd be like, Well, who you bringing in? He'd be able to he'd be at 115 pitches. Well, who the hell you bringing in? No, that guy's no, I got it. Just yeah, I'm gonna finish this one out. I'm not trying to lose this game. Um, so you know, there there is a I I I remember a famous video of Mike Mussina telling Joe Torre to sit down and stay right there.

SPEAKER_02 41:45

But that's it'd be hard to tell someone like Mike Musina, or excuse me, Joe Joe Torrey that, but yeah, right, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 41:51

A guy like Joe Torre, who's a former MVP himself and won all those championships with New York. But um but yeah, just that that's a very different attitude. Musina was fired up, you know, like stay there, I've got this game. And then he went out and struck out the next batter and and finished it out. So, you know, it's a it's a very different situation, and and again, those guys were not marred by controversy necessarily.

SPEAKER_01 42:18

Um and they had much more distinguished careers at that time than Deber.

SPEAKER_03 42:23

Not that Musina was a Hall of Famer, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 42:26

I mean, they had a little pretty good couple more skins on the wall than Rafael Debers.

SPEAKER_00 42:32

Yeah. What's up, Bubba? Did you want to say hi?

SPEAKER_02 42:35

No, I'm good. Oh, hey.

SPEAKER_00 42:38

What's going on, man? What's your head in there, sis? This is the birthday boy.

SPEAKER_02 42:42

What's up? Here's the birthday boy. Happy early birthday, buddy.

SPEAKER_03 42:50

Yeah, another another two and a half hours.

SPEAKER_02 42:53

Yeah, oh dang. Play a card right might make it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 43:01

All right.

SPEAKER_04 43:03

When you're done the hill podcast, can you go get the donuts?

SPEAKER_00 43:07

Well, I'll go get them in the morning. I think they they probably closed, dude.

SPEAKER_02 43:11

They're they're cooking. Yeah, yeah, they just opened actually to get ready for four in the morning. So right, yeah. All right, I'll go get it in the morning, okay, Bubba? Hey, I tell you what, he'll go to Rowette and get you some donuts.

SPEAKER_03 43:23

There you go. I think the only place that's open with donuts now is the racetrack if they have right. They crisp.

SPEAKER_02 43:33

Right. I was gonna say crispy cream, yeah. What is that, buddy? Drew a snail, I think. Snail. Man, I shouldn't have asked it because it's I was gonna guess a snail. Or a donut with blueberry frosting coming out of the side of it.

SPEAKER_03 43:45

The donut kitchen, man. There's cro Cronuts near me. I gotta go get one of these. I know where this donut shop is, is yeah, go get a cronut, man.

SPEAKER_00 43:52

I'm telling you. The wave of the feast.

SPEAKER_03 43:55

Yeah, they don't open until 5 30 tomorrow.

SPEAKER_02 43:59

Dang it.

SPEAKER_00 44:00

At least we'll get we'll get to sleep in. Totally, yeah. All right. Um another question about those Giants. Who's on their way out? Are they are they pulling the Minnesota Twins and the St. Louis Cardinals, just dumping everybody?

SPEAKER_03 44:18

Yeah, I think I think they would get rid of Devers tomorrow. I think they'd get rid of Robbie Ray. You know, he's on the back end of his career. Um allegedly uh Chapman's on on the on the block. They'll they're fielding offers for him. You know, he's a little bit on the back end of his his career. Uh to um Adama? So, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 44:47

Whoy Adama. Willie?

SPEAKER_03 44:50

Yeah, yeah. I mean, you know, we we actually we talked about it last year that they they were a pretty old team. You know, a lot of a lot of their bet better players were in their in their mid-30s. Um expensive team too.

SPEAKER_02 45:03

They are, absolutely. Yeah. So yeah, I mean, I don't it wouldn't surprise me. I think that you're not not wrong, Josh. It's just gonna be are there gonna be enough takers? And if I think if they are for some of these older players that have a couple years left, it's gonna be they're gonna have you know do what teams did with Scherzer, do what teams did with these other guys, and you know, Sonny Gray and whatever it is, and they're they're gonna have to say, all right, can we eat part of this contract? But I mean, Buster Posey is obviously a god there, three World Series championship. I think he won MVP Denny Josh. And but I mean, that's an organization, right? That I guess since 2014 hasn't been to the promised land and he's he's taken over and trying to get him back. I don't know. Do you think there's any sentiment from the fan base or management towards Posey for this stuff that has obviously not worked out? Two big moves with the manager and a and a big trade with Devers or what?

SPEAKER_00 45:58

Uh that's a that's a tough thing. Like it's not like he hasn't put the pieces there that should or or spent any money. You know what I mean? He can't play for him. You're right.

SPEAKER_05 46:10

Right.

SPEAKER_00 46:10

You know, um remember preseason before these guys actually started playing, we were pretty high on the Giants because of the roster. You know what I mean? And none of them have performed, so it's just it's not, I don't think it's anything posy. Maybe he catches a little slack for hiring a college coach.

SPEAKER_03 46:28

That's that'd gotta be that be the biggest tick on his record.

SPEAKER_00 46:32

That's gonna be the yeah, that's gonna be the he's like it's like Joe Maurer in Minnesota, or you know, those guys. It's it's not Albert Pujols in St. Louis, like they they they could murder their firstborn and probably still have fans in San Francisco. So um, you know, it's just kind of a I mean, how many what did he win? Three world champions with them, and didn't he get into the hall? He I don't think he's eligible yet.

SPEAKER_03 46:59

I thought he retired. He's not eligible until I think this might be his first year of eligibility. Okay, okay. Probably the one coming up.

SPEAKER_00 47:10

Yeah, so um, but yeah, so I think I think Posey did a good job of putting ball players together, and then the ball players just didn't play. Um so I think I mean by by the end of the trade deadline, um, I think you're gonna wind up with Elliot Ramos and Jung Hu Lee. And bless you, maybe Zentuk and uh Logan Webb.

SPEAKER_02 47:39

Pops, you're just y'all never cease to amaze me. Last game, October 3rd, 2021, for posing. So you're exactly right.

SPEAKER_00 47:49

But he's got gotta be first ballot, I would think, right? Yeah, maybe 19. I was thinking 19, but maybe that was when he won his. No, that wasn't his MVP.

SPEAKER_03 47:58

No, he won his MVP back when he was they were winning World Series.

SPEAKER_00 48:02

Yeah, yeah, something like that, 2012, 2014, maybe. I'm trying to think because there was uh theirs was like every other year, right? So it was 10, 12, 14, 10, 12, and 14, yeah. So his his was one of those years, but um, I mean, it just at some point, and you can blame it on Posey, you can blame it on Vitello, but ultimately the guy's gotta go out there and perform on the field and just know what he's getting it done. I I know a Braves team and a Yankees team that would love to have a shortstop like Adamas. You know, absolutely. I know a Phillies team that would love to have a third baseman like Chapman. I know a Rangers team that would take the entire infield. They would take Devers for sure, especially if uh if uh San Francisco was playing the majority of that check, you know. Yeah, um, I they they've got some names that are with proven track records that would probably bring them, you know, at least a couple of close to major league ready players, if not major league ready now, you know. So we'll we'll see, but it's not gonna surprise me when their roster looks very, very different on August 1st. So um last question about Devers, like who's going to number one, will anybody take on that problem? And number two, who would it be? Like who needs him that bad that's actually close enough in a race to pay that kind of cash? So first first question is does anybody want him?

SPEAKER_02 49:50

Plenty of teams want him, but like you said, is it the the money and money's gotta be right, you know?

SPEAKER_03 49:58

Well, you know, so I mean it's easy to say say that, right? Because he's a he's a talented ball player, but the Yankees aren't gonna trade for him. They've they've got uh rice, right? Um, I don't think the White Sox are gonna mess with him. Uh the Mariners are pretty solid at first base, Tampa's solid. Um, you know, I think Cleveland likes their first baseman and they don't want to make a lot of money. And then they don't spend that kind of money anyway. The J the Jays they spin, but they have Junior there. Um obviously you could bring him on as a DH, but you know, they have too many bats in their lineup. Their DH is kind of a they get that's who they give a day off to, right? Rotate their their guys, the athletics don't spend that kind of money, you know. Uh obviously the Rangers need a, you know, nothing wrong with Jake, but uh certainly uh Devers would be uh an improvement over him, but the Rangers don't spend that money. The or the Orioles have Alonzo. They just signed Alonzo, so that's not going. Um the Astros have Alvarez, uh the Tigers don't spin, the Royals don't spin, the Twins don't spin, the Red Sox aren't going down that road again, right? Their angels aren't gonna go there.

SPEAKER_00 51:12

They just welcome back, Rabbit.

SPEAKER_02 51:16

What I'm hearing, Wendell, is nobody before the trade deadline, he'll be a Dodger.

SPEAKER_03 51:22

Well, I mean, the Dodgers, they have they have Freeman at first, right? They have there's and unless you know Freeman falls down getting off the airplane and breaks his leg. I mean, he's not going there. He's not gonna go take over for third with Muncie. And Shohei's the DH. And Shohei's the DH, right? He's not gonna go to Philly, he's not gonna go to Chicago.

SPEAKER_02 51:44

Yeah, the one team that has the money to to spend on him is already just completely loaded. So, I mean, what are they gonna do?

SPEAKER_03 51:51

Yeah, maybe, maybe, maybe the Padres, I mean, maybe the Padres will spurge. You know, there's no reason for the Marlins to spend, there's no reason for the Nationals. Um you know. You know, that would be a great ballpark for him. You know, the ball flies out of there in Arizona for sure. Yeah, um, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, they're not gonna spend. You know, the the Mets had their Devors and they didn't sign him, didn't re-sign him, they let him go to um, and then uh obviously there's no reason for the Rockies to do it. So, you know, it's it's a short list, right? I mean, the the Diamondbacks, maybe, maybe the Padres.

SPEAKER_00 52:35

Yeah, I don't think the Braves put up with it.

SPEAKER_03 52:39

I mean, they've got Olsen anyway, yeah. Yeah, but they they but they they like to DH Baldwin a lot.

SPEAKER_00 52:48

Yeah, they do, yeah. And Yastrimsky, they got out there in right field, they'll platoon him a little bit with a cuny out. So yeah. And the the guys, let's not forget, we're also not talking about the almost 900 career OPS guy that he was for the first several years of his career.

SPEAKER_03 53:07

We're talking about a guy the 270 hitter with 20 home runs and 90 RBIs, basically. That's his last two or three years, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 53:16

So um yeah, it's gonna be it's gonna be pretty uh pretty interesting to see what happens with that guy. Um, not just I mean, I he probably doesn't care. He's got 300 coming his way.

SPEAKER_03 53:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 53:33

So if he never plays another game, I mean he's like, yeah, cool, I'll retire. I'm still making my 300 million. Yeah. Um, if he never wins another ring, because I he was in Boston in 2018, right? When they won that ring.

SPEAKER_03 53:46

Yep, he was part of that team, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 53:48

Yeah, so um, yeah, I don't know. It'd be interesting to watch. But I think, yeah, probably Arizona. I was kind of thinking cubbies because I I can't think of who their DH is. I guess it's gotta be sorry, TJ.

SPEAKER_03 54:08

No, it's uh what's his name?

SPEAKER_00 54:11

Yes, they have DH.

SPEAKER_03 54:13

Yes, I thought he was their catcher because he looks like a catcher, but he's a former ranger.

SPEAKER_00 54:20

He's got the thickest bottom on any like bottom half on any.

SPEAKER_02 54:26

No, no, I'm we heard what you said. We understand, Josh.

SPEAKER_03 54:29

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bush, Bush is at first base, he's not going there. Well, uh Bregman's at first, so he's not going there. And you know, they like to let uh they rotate that outfield too. You know, they let Say say a DH uh along the way with uh do they d' in the National League now?

SPEAKER_00 54:51

Since Shohei came about. Pretty much.

unknown 54:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 54:56

All right. Uh well that's pretty good stuff. So Giants are done, and we're just gonna make fun of Raphael Devers for the rest of the season.

SPEAKER_02 55:03

Yeah, we should make that pretty pretty much segment.

SPEAKER_00 55:06

Right, just to be clear segments.

SPEAKER_05 55:08

I like the worst joke of the week.

SPEAKER_00 55:13

The Devers joke of the week. Yeah, there you go. All right, uh, Pops, let's get into it a little bit. Worst of the week, who you got?

SPEAKER_03 55:20

Oh man, so this one was really this week was amazingly simple, and I don't know how I that's good. How it got there, you know. You just you pop up the top two players, and it's just like, holy cow, how did this even happen? So um, Carlos Cortez of your uh not Oakland Athletics O for 16. Oh six Ks. He somehow managed to get an RBI. Um and then ironically, the team we just spent a lot of time talking about, Matt Chapman, also had an O for week. O for 19, two RBIs, one walk, and eight strikeouts. It was like, holy cow.

SPEAKER_00 56:17

Yeah, I can you're I know how that would happen because that's exactly what would happen to me if I ran actually exactly.

SPEAKER_02 56:25

I think our salaries are drastically different than what they're doing.

SPEAKER_03 56:28

Right, yeah. For sure. And you know, on the on the pitching side, you know, both of these guys had horrible, they only went one start. Um, but just you know, the teams that they're on and what was expected of them this year. Um you know, I had to go Freddie Peralta. He only pitched two innings, so obviously his and he struck out two, he had one start, but in those two innings he gave up 10 hits, 10 runs, walk one, and uh struck out two. So he won well wound up the week with a 33.75 ERA and a 4.13 uh whip uh for his one start, you know, at Freddie Peralta.

SPEAKER_05 57:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 57:15

So so obviously he just he was you know came over for the Mets to help them get to the World Series, and he has been um bad. He has just been bad. There's no other way to put it than the New York fans are pretty nice though. Oh yeah, oh yeah, I'm sure I'm sure they're very very very sympathetic. Yeah. And and then another one uh was Kevin, Kevin Gossman with uh with the Blue Jays. Uh another guy with one one one start. Um, and the Blue Jays are trying to make their fight their way back into the into the race, uh, which they kind of have, you know, like we talked about there, they're sitting there in that last uh playoff spot. But um two innings, three strikeouts, uh seven hits, seven runs, four walks, um, and a 31.5 ERA. So, you know, that guy was supposed to be a big Kevin Gossman was supposed to be a big part of their their rotation, and you know, especially with uh Savage starting the year on the DL. He has uh kind of let them down. So uh the good news for TJ is there was nobody, there was not a cub loser of the week. You gotta have one. Couldn't couldn't find one. So I can't I can't make one up just to make one up. But uh just then on the I. Plus placenta going to the DL, I guess, is as close to the Cub loser of the Week.

SPEAKER_00 58:40

Yeah, all right, so Palency that is. All right. How about the players and pitchers of the week, Slate?

SPEAKER_02 58:46

Oh, I'll tell you, Pops didn't pick a Cub. And on the flip side, Major League Baseball did pick a cub as a player of the week. I'm gonna go ahead and say they're wrong. TJ not that this guy didn't have a good one. Major League Baseball picked for their player of the week, PCA.

SPEAKER_03 59:03

They've been riding his, they've been riding him ever since he came up.

SPEAKER_02 59:08

Yes, and I'm gonna tell you right now, Josh, you said it before. We did the, and I like the uh mid-segment. I think you're right at 30 minutes when you gave us that trivia question. I like that. Yeah, but I don't know how you can so PCA, good week. 7 for 16, four runs, three home runs, five RBIs, two stolen bases, and he had uh four walks. How can you not pick Kyle Schwarber?

unknown 59:32

Right.

SPEAKER_02 59:34

Okay, seven for twenty three, nine runs, five home runs, ten RBIs, and three walks.

SPEAKER_05 59:41

Yeah, wow.

SPEAKER_02 59:42

I I just that's not even close, in my opinion, guys. I don't know what Major League Baseball was thinking, but good for them. Major League Baseball for their player of the week in the American League. I won't disagree with this because I had him as my pitcher of the week in the American League, and that's your first place Seattle Mariners. That's Logan Gilbert. So uh all he did was in his two starts last week, 13.1 innings pitched, two earned runs, 18K's, three balls, two wins. Okay, I can agree with them, but I just don't agree with them making the player of the week a pitcher. Yeah. Great freaking week, though. I'm just saying. So I will agree. So I'm kind of jumping back and forth for my player of the week in the American League. I'm gonna take here's another guy that uh maybe is why Cleveland is hanging on. Their second baseman, Travis Banzana.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:37

10 for 24, 8 run score, three home runs, seven RBIs, six walks with only three Ks. Let's party.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:44

He's a rookie, too.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:45

Yep, so maybe there's hey, I officially know three people on the Indians now, just so y'all know. And then my uh y'all like this one. My NL pitcher of the week. Uh if I can say his name right, he's a Cardinal, Andre Palante. Yeah. And he had a great week. He got two wins over San Diego and Arizona, two divisional rivals. 13 innings pitched three earn runs, eight K's, no walks. So congratulations to Andre and the Cardinals for sticking tough and showing us all that we didn't know what we were talking about, and the playoff team and a second place team there in the division. So, but that's who I got. Sorry, TJ PCA did have a good week, man. And you know, it's usually Pop's job to crap on him, not mine. He had a good week, he had a great week, but he didn't have a shorter week, in my opinion.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:38

Right. Agreed, agreed. All right. Well, that's all I got, fellas. Did y'all have anything you wanted to add? Any trivia, anything like that?

SPEAKER_03 1:01:47

Yes. How many games behind the Cardinals or the Cubs?

SPEAKER_02 1:01:52

Wait, wait, wait, wait. I'm gonna guess, I'm gonna guess. I didn't look at it. You did nationally. Two and a half.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:59

No, it's one and a half.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:01

Oh, look at that.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:02

The Cardinals lost uh four to three, and the Cubs won. TJ? Cut into that lead.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:10

Just hit me with it. Here they come. What kind of chance do I have right now?

SPEAKER_00 1:02:20

All right, well, that's all we got, fellas. All right, so thank you everybody to listen in for another episode. We appreciate you joining us. Um, check us out on Facebook, Instagram, X. Uh, if you like what we're doing, support the show. Give us a like, give us a comment. Um for the Slay dude, Justin Slay and Wendell Pops Patterson. I'm Josh Patterson. Thank y'all, and we'll talk to you again next week.