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Hey everyone,

welcome back to inside the

diamonds podcast.

This is episode 13 I'm your

host JC and I'm joined

again tonight by CJ.

How you doing CJ?

I'm happy to be here after a

rough weekend and a rough Monday.

So nice to get the little

therapy session in here

Yeah Been a long long time

since we talked.

I know that last Memorial

Day episode you had to roll

out on your own I got stuck

with some stuff from work

surprise surprise.

I

But I'm actually glad to be back.

And I actually haven't been

able to watch much baseball

over the last probably 10 or so days,

but watched a lot yesterday.

I had some interesting conversations.

So I'm looking forward to

get into it today and tonight with you.

So why don't we jump right

into it and tackle some of

the notes from this past week?

Yeah, this is going to be jam-packed,

so we're going to try to

keep this as brief as we can.

But there's a lot to talk about.

I mean, like you said,

you haven't been here in a week.

So we're going to start off

things with what's going on

in the American League East.

And the Yankees are just

steamrolling everybody.

I crunched all the numbers today,

and I want to start with their pitching,

which let's start with the

fact they're doing this without their ace,

Garrett Cole.

Mm-hmm.

So they're first in ERA with a 2.78.

They have a 1.12 whip,

which is tied for second.

526 strikeouts, which is seventh.

They are first in home runs with 90.

Fifth with batting average with a 256.

First in OPS with a 774.

And third in runs scored with 299.

And the offense is being led by Judge,

who has a 1075 OPS,

which is first in baseball.

21 home runs, which is first in baseball.

47 RBIs, which is fifth.

And a 288 batting average, which is 25th.

But yeah, remember,

he did have that slow start

to April and March.

But he's also,

the Juan Soto combo has just

dominated that lineup and

dominated everybody they played.

Soto's got a 1.031 OPS, which is second.

He's got 17 home runs, which is fourth.

53 RBIs, which is second,

and a .322 batting average,

which is third.

Those two coupled in with Gunnar Henderson,

and we'll talk about him in a little bit.

Those are your three

American League MVP

candidates as of right now.

I mean, it's only the first week of June,

so that could obviously change,

but those three.

Well,

I think the biggest thing that we

talked about this previously, and,

you know,

I think it was the Guardians

early on that a huge run

differential and the

Yankees right now are at 107.

That's the best in baseball.

Second is the Philadelphia

Phillies with 101.

So, you know,

when you've got the Yankees

at 107 and then Baltimore at plus 74 and

You know,

those are two of the best teams

in the American League East,

but also two of the best

teams in baseball.

Yep.

And like I said,

they're doing this without Garrett Cole.

But Luis Gil, Gil, how do you say it?

I think it's Gil.

Gil or Gil, yeah.

I mean, what he's doing out of nowhere.

I think he actually was just

named American League

Rookie of the Month.

This season he's got a 1.99 ERA,

which is fifth best in baseball.

a 0.95 whip, which is sixth, and 79 Ks,

which is 11th.

Again, I asked this question,

I think we talked about it

a couple weeks ago on an episode.

They're going to have

Garrett Cole coming back,

which he's making a rehab

start on Tuesday, tomorrow.

Who do you take out of that rotation?

Now they got Clark Schmidt

out for four to six weeks, I believe.

So that will help fix that issue.

But when he's back,

he was pitching just as well.

So...

funny you mention that

because prior to his injury

in the way they were

playing I'm like this is a

perfect scenario for the

Yankees where they can

really kind of pull up Paul

Skeens ask if you want with

Cole in the minors and

really slow play it because

there's no rush at that

point in time now with

Schmidt's injury there's a

little bit more but I've

got an article that I had

to put on pause but for due to work but

My May stars of the month,

and the three you mentioned

from the Yankees right there,

all three of them are

included in that article

that I hope to get out by

the end of the day tomorrow.

But they have been red hot,

and it hurts to say because

I know they're just going to get better.

And you know they won't sit

still at the trade deadline either.

Yep.

I believe, though,

I think they just hit another loss.

I believe,

I don't know if he's on the aisle,

but I thought I heard

something today that Clay

Holmes is now injured.

Oh, yeah.

which that's a tough one to

have that in your bullpen,

and he's been good this year.

Yeah, he's been lights out.

Ironically, I have him on my fantasy team.

It doesn't say anything

about him being hurt.

I thought I heard that from somebody,

but that'll be something

interesting to watch over

the next couple of days if

that is the case and he is hurt.

But as of right now,

I don't see anything on it,

so we'll have to wait and see.

But the other team in the American League,

like you just said, Baltimore,

I mean, what they're doing,

and we've talked about this

every week just about, I feel like,

what they have coming.

And I got destroyed the

other day for an article I

wrote about they lost John

Means and Tyler Wells for the season,

and I thought probably

should go add another arm.

And I don't know if people

read the article the wrong

way or if I put it out the wrong way,

where...

I mentioned potentially five

prospects moving one or two

of them to get a deal done for Lizardo.

Jesus Lizardo from Miami.

But people went after me saying,

I can't believe you'd give up that much.

And I wasn't saying give up all five.

I was saying give up two of

the five and figure out

which two to give up.

One I mentioned was Samuel Basalo.

He's a catcher first baseman,

blocked by Adley Rushman,

and not necessarily blocked

at first base.

You could put him there,

but then you have – why am

I drawing a blank now on his name?

But you have another

prospect down in the minors.

I believe he's actually in

AAA now that can play first base.

I'm pulling up my rankings

right now for them.

Well,

they have so much infield depth that

someone's eventually going

to have to be shifted.

And we know they're not

moving Jackson Holiday.

No.

They have Elfield depth, too.

They have so much depth.

It's unreal.

Lacking the pitching.

And that's why they went and

got Corbin Burns.

And Grayson Rodriguez

pitched well tonight.

I'm still a little surprised

they took him out when they did.

And they have Cole Irvin and

Braddish and Dean Kramer.

And that's with losing John Means.

So when I was writing it,

I thought a little bit more, too.

Do they need to go get an arm?

No.

No.

But everybody who commented on the article,

and if you haven't read it,

go give it a look.

But read the whole article.

Don't pull the work email

where you read just enough

to think you understand it

because I think that's

where you took the heat is

people didn't fully read it

because it makes clear

sense when you read it that

here's what they have to

pull from to go make a move.

Right.

Not send all of them.

At the bottom,

I gave you what I think the

trade should be.

Yeah.

But, I mean,

you got the option to go trade

these pieces and –

And I wrote an article even

back before that they

needed somebody in their bullpen.

But I mentioned the back end.

And the front end needs a

little bit of work too.

Where you move somebody like,

you say you go get Jesus Lizardo.

You move Cole Irvin into a

long reliever role.

It helps your bullpen.

What about going for Lizardo and Scott?

You'd have to probably give

up a little bit more.

I think at that point.

I like the idea,

but I think at that point

where I mentioned you might

get away with it if you do

like Fabian and Basalo or Kobe Mayo.

Sorry,

that was the other one I was thinking of.

You move one of them, yeah, okay.

But then now if you add in Scott,

you might have to change

Fabian to Bradfield and get

a little bit higher up on the rankings.

Or you could do those two

and throw in a lower guy.

I mean, again,

they may only have to give up one.

I mean, think about what they gave up.

We've talked about what they

gave up for Corbin Burns.

They didn't give up much.

So,

Lozardo's not even close to Corbin Burns.

You could probably get away with two,

you know,

Enrique Bradfield and lower prospects.

So,

when you start getting a little greedy

and you want more,

now you start getting into

the conversation of a

higher-end prospect.

My father and I had this

conversation yesterday

briefly because we

mentioned Lozardo and I talked about,

you know, what you just said.

if you're another team in

major league baseball and

you're shopping someone

shouldn't the orioles be

your first call regardless

if it's an arm bullpen or

starter that would be what

I would do right if if you

want to go to a luxury

store to pick out what you

want in exchange they've

got to be the number one

team to call just because

like you said with um the

gap or not the gaps but the

blocks I guess you could

say what they have

blocking some of this top

talent because you can't

play everyone and yes

injuries and not everyone's

going to develop but you

know adding a lizardo to me

now yet you don't have a

whole lot of cap money put

out there there's no cap

space but you don't have a

lot of money out there so

if you go and sign trade

for lizardo who I believe

has two more years I think

he's through 2027 under contract

It makes it a hell of a lot

easier to make and pitch to

Corbin Burns about sticking

around with this young core.

Right.

But they're phenomenal.

And my father and I were

talking with my son.

I don't know if there's a more exciting,

do-it-all, gritty baseball player.

My dad threw out

Pedroia-esque in regards to

how Gunnar Henderson is.

Not the same talent and skill set,

but still just real gritty.

He does it all.

Well, could he do what Pedroia did?

Pedroia won at Rookie of the

Year and an 08 MVP.

Gunnar Henderson's in that

conversation right now.

He'll probably get a ring, too.

Pedroia won a World Series in 07.

I mean, great.

You just said Henderson

could do that this year.

But I think to make the postseason run,

Grayson Rodriguez is a nice arm.

He's looked good this season.

And I like Bradish,

but another arm to that

rotation just seems like

something you have to do.

And I said that before the

season even started,

knowing Means was coming back.

And I thought two arms were needed.

But now, like I said,

it also looks bullpen.

And that opens up the

conversation for someone

like Ryan Helsley in St.

Louis.

But we'll get to that later.

I mean,

I don't know if they're going to

sell anymore.

And the big one is

everybody's talking about it,

and we'll talk about it

next week because I want to

hear what you think is a good offer,

is Mason Miller.

I mean,

that's the one everybody's talking

about that says it makes

sense for Baltimore.

I just don't know what the

asking price would be.

And like I said,

that's something we're

going to do next week.

Like I said,

I'm going to talk about it with you,

and we'll talk about what

you would give up if you

were an owner of a team

And maybe we make a list of

three teams each, and we say,

what do we give up for

Mason Miller to come to our team?

Well, I'm looking at it right now,

the standings.

And another team, you know,

obviously the Cubs are one

that have been mentioned

just simply due to what's

going on in the back end of

their bullpen.

And Neres is doing all right.

But Kansas City Royals.

Yeah.

They don't – not a lot of –

it's easy just to imagine

Baltimore because of

just the resources they have to give up.

But I, I'm,

I think that's something

interesting next week that

if we share six teams are

the ones that are currently

in the race and a lot,

and maybe a long shot and

put together a package and

we just split it up and

share what we have, that would,

that would be interesting.

Cause he is, in my opinion, the,

top young arm that's back in

the bullpen that that needs

will be moved I don't see

the oakland a's holding on

to him um and I think now's

the time to kind of capture

what they can for him

before they move yep and I

mean and just thinking

we're what what's today the

third we're two weeks away

from orioles yankees all over again yeah

All right, so we're going to move on.

And this is one you like to bring up.

I think you brought it up a

couple times in the past couple weeks.

And I kept saying,

wait for the weather to get warmer.

And that's Shota Imanaga.

And after his brilliant

start to the season,

he finally looked human.

On Wednesday last week,

he faced the Brewers.

He went four and a third,

gave up eight hits, seven earned runs,

one walk, and one strikeout.

Yeah, it was not good.

I went back and I was

thinking about it because I

had said to you, once it heats up,

let's talk about it.

It didn't heat up.

It was 61 degrees and the

roof was closed at Milwaukee.

Mm-hmm.

So... But Milwaukee's a team too that,

well, historically strikes out a lot.

But if you're not on,

they can take advantage of

you really quick.

And the whole Cubs team, they have lost...

four or four of their last five.

They're, they're struggling.

Yeah.

And they're dropped into

third place right now.

So it's not a good look

right now for them.

Well, he's going to bounce.

I think he bounces back tomorrow.

Yeah.

I mean, yeah.

If he doesn't bounce back,

there's bigger problems to discuss.

Yeah.

I want to see, I mean,

he's got to be pitching.

It's a two game series with

the white socks, isn't it?

Uh, just had it up there.

I think it's a short one.

Yeah.

They play tomorrow.

Oh,

tomorrow, and then they have them.

Yeah, it's two games.

It'll be Shota and then James Daly,

and he'll go again Sunday

against Frankie Montes against Cincinnati,

who's another team that's

starting to creep up.

If the Cubs don't play well,

there's a good chance that

they could go into

Cincinnati and then drop to fourth.

And then after that,

his next start would be the

one that we'll talk to a

little while from now,

but that's another one.

Mm-hmm.

All right.

They're reeling right now.

Not good.

Yeah.

Nope.

And PCA, your boy just got called back up.

Yeah, they have to do something,

but we can talk about it next week.

There's a lot of different things.

They've got some gaps right now,

and they've got to do something.

A lot of underperforming,

to say the least.

Yeah.

Yeah, and the Kyle Hendricks stuff hurts,

too.

Ah,

did you see that Norby was called up

for the Orioles?

Yes.

And Mateo is going to be

sent down after getting

clobbered in the head?

He's actually injured list

for seven days with the concussion.

And then they actually,

that pitcher that they just DFA'd,

that was terrible.

Yeah.

An infinity ERA.

Couldn't get an out.

Nope.

Nope.

Not good at all.

I'm excited to see Norby out.

yeah where normie I mean so

the next one on the list is

the fun stuff from last

week the jose lopez now he

if you're not wrong uh well

that's the thing though so

if you're not familiar with

the story jose lopez last

week came in and pitched

against the dodgers and the

dodgers lineup lit him

And I don't remember exactly what happened,

but something happened,

and he ended up saying

something to the third base umpire,

and the third base umpire tossed him.

Now,

the reaction was a typical frustrated

Mets player.

I mean, it's not the season they expected,

and on top of his jersey,

he was pissed and tossed

his glove into the stands

and made somebody's day.

But then it's what came after.

He didn't stop.

At his locker, and...

pretty much said, and you can,

I don't know, this is my issue with it,

but we'll talk about it

when I'm done telling you.

He pretty much said at his

locker that I am what

people took it as on the

worst team at worst fucking

team in baseball, exact quote.

And that's what they took it as.

Whereas he came out the next day and he,

English is not his first language,

so you could tell the accident there.

He came out and he pretty

much said the next day on

his Instagram that he said

he was the worst fucking

teammate in baseball.

So my question for this all, I mean,

obviously, that was the story.

That's what happened.

He ended up getting

designated for assignment the next day.

And he even said at the end

of the interview that he

plans to be there in

uniform tomorrow if they'll have him.

And they decided the next

day they didn't want to have him.

And so he's gone.

And the manager even said

that the untucking of the

jersey and throwing the

glove was unacceptable.

So now he's gone.

But is he gone for his actions?

Or is he gone because the

internet took what he said

and misheard what he said

and ran with it and the

Mets organization followed

that and not what was actually said?

And he got designated for

his time because of that.

uh I think there's probably

some truth to that but

there's also got to be

probably more behind the

scenes to just be gone that

quickly with him um I mean

if you're the worst

teammate in baseball there

you should be gone yeah

exactly at the end of the

day like that's not your

cancer in the clubhouse at

that point yeah but

I get it if you say you're

on the worst effing team in baseball.

Yeah,

they're probably not going to keep you.

That's why when I first heard it,

I thought I heard the same thing.

I had to listen to it about

three or four more times to

figure out what he was actually saying.

But I was like, wait,

did he really just say that?

And then he ended it with,

I plan to be here tomorrow.

They're not going to want you there,

buddy.

No, I mean,

I think most likely I think his

Instagram and stuff like

that is probably him reeling.

don't care if it's your

second language or not

teammate and team are two

vastly different things and

it's I don't think maybe

I'm wrong maybe in the heat

of the moment that's what

he meant and I hope for his

sake that's what he meant

but sad thing is he was not

far from removed from being

a decent closer yeah yeah

and of all teams right now

with diaz being down

you know, yes, he blew up.

It's, I don't know.

I think the Mets are a hot

mess and I think they just

want to avoid that

altogether because the last

thing they need is that noise.

Every time he comes out in

New York to pitch and just

being booed out of the stadium,

they got enough problems right now.

Let's,

We're not going anywhere.

Let's let him go and we'll

deal with another issue.

We don't need that.

And probably some of the

veterans didn't care for it either.

I also heard,

and I don't know if this is true,

I saw a couple people say this on Twitter,

but

it sounds like his son has

some medical issues that

has been weighing on him.

And that was part of his reaction.

I guess also his son's birthday.

And so that had weighed on him.

And I, again,

I don't know fully if that's true,

but I had seen it from

multiple people on Twitter.

So,

so if that's the case with the lineup

and the, the mixture,

the culture that they've

got there with plenty of people that are,

you know,

that could back him up.

And if he was a good

teammate that would go to bat for him.

Yeah.

That's the interesting thing.

Nobody came out after and

said anything like not a

single Mets player had

anything to say from what I've seen.

I mean,

maybe I missed it and I just

scrolling through and I

just happened to not see it,

but nobody said a word.

I haven't seen anything that,

that places they're 17 back.

It's a tough division to begin with.

They've got injuries upon injuries,

and just no one's really

performing that well.

And I saw a list of players

that could be shopped off that team.

Holy shit,

you're not even going to go

through a grocery line with

14 items or less with that list.

They've got so many players

that they could get rid of right now,

and it makes you think, like,

is that becoming

potentially a toxic clubhouse?

It very well could be.

Not good,

but it was unfortunate to see as

comical it is to see

someone throw a tantrum like that.

We've all seen the guys take

baseball bats to the

bullpen phone or throwing

out a water cooler,

but to untuck your shirt,

which I think is pretty

damn disrespectful in a certain way,

and then throwing your glove like that.

I mean,

it's one thing if you're in the

dugout and you're done pitching whatever,

you want to throw a hooded

sweatshirt on or throw on one of the

You know, the cover-up, windbreakers,

but that was a meltdown.

And if it is something to do with his kid,

then I get it.

But at the same time,

sometimes you got to

understand where you are, too,

because there's a lot of eyes on you.

Yep.

So that was an interesting

situation last week.

We're going to stay with that division.

And I want to talk about two

pitchers on the Atlanta Braves who –

lost their best player for the season,

I think, for the season.

I mean,

I don't think that's been confirmed.

I mean, an ACL injury,

it was non-contact going back to second.

I don't think it was done for the year.

But as far as their pitching,

and they lost Strider for

the year earlier.

Yep.

Max Freed has been turning

it on as of late.

Yep.

He...

Over the last week or so,

he's made two starts.

And in those two starts,

he's got a 0.53 ERA, a 0.65 whip, 15 Ks,

one walk.

I mean, and that's in 17 innings.

I don't know.

I'm sorry.

17 or 15.

Might be one of the two.

It's one of the two.

But, again, the guy is dialed back in,

and he's doing what he has

to do to help that Braves

team that's missing their ace.

He pitches again tomorrow.

He'll face the Red Sox.

I'm not overly optimistic

about that start.

Not looking fun as a Red Sox fan,

but we'll have to see what happens.

And also another thing to do,

and I think this is a – if

I'm the Red Sox ownership

and in charge of all the moves,

I'm watching him tomorrow

because he is a free agent

after this year.

And he's one of the guys the

Braves have not locked up.

yep you're looking for an

arm especially the red sox

who we've all talked about

and I said it I think I

said to you and I said to a

couple people this is the

guy I want if you don't

want to sign montgomery or

snell or any of those guys

and we'll talk about them

later you won't sign either

of them I'm fine with not

signing anybody this past

year except for giolito

yeah max freed well we

don't really have a lefty

no no we don't have any

coming up either that are

The really right home boat.

So it makes a lot of sense.

It does a little shocking

that they haven't locked him up either,

though.

But they've got a lot of

money spent elsewhere, too.

They locked up all their position players,

but not their pitching.

Yeah.

The other arm in their

rotation that had looked

good was Chris Sale.

But boy,

he did not look good this weekend.

And if you're a Red Sox fan,

I know it hurts seeing

Chris Sale doing what he's

doing and Vaughn Grissom

not performing and now he's

on the second injured list.

But, wow, Chris Sale, four innings pitched,

eight runs on nine hits, one walk,

and four strikeouts.

This was the sixth game in

his career he gave up eight earned runs.

And it was to the Oakland A's.

Yeah.

If you want to add insult to injury,

it was to the Oakland A's.

Dude...

I hope it's one of those for

his sake that it's one he

bounces back because if he doesn't,

then there'll be whispers in regards.

You know what I mean?

I haven't checked on his any

of the specific stats or

numbers in regards to his

velocity during that start or.

you know, the mixture of pitches.

But, like, hopefully he just bounces back.

I go that route simply

because we've seen this

before where he has one horrible outing,

expect him to bounce back,

and it's kind of more of

the same the next.

And then down the road,

he's taking a stint to rest, if you will.

So his next start will be

against the Washington Nationals.

Should be a bounce back.

Although you could say that

if it was against the Oakland A's again,

but then he's at Baltimore.

Yeah.

So I hope it's not anything,

but it'll be something to

watch over those next two starts.

Cause he had been lights out.

He'd been pitching really good.

He was a silent.

Exactly.

He was, you know, he was very,

he was holding it together.

Once Strider went down,

it was him and freed Lopez

has pitched well, but yeah, it's,

that was a little shocking

you see that against the

phillies you see that

against you know the

dodgers even the padres the

way they've been playing

recently sure but again

against the oakland

athletics I i mean they're

you know on paper their

lineup doesn't look great

but they've got some guys

that can hit the ball but

that's that's an ex yeah

Yeah.

Do you have a couple of home runs off him?

I think he was four for four on the day.

Yeah.

So they've, they've got,

they've got some bats,

but at the same time, next,

next start out against Washington,

it'll be very interesting.

I hope to see him go six strong and,

you know,

wipe any of those concerns away

for the brave sake.

And for him, I don't,

I don't want to see him struggle.

I'd like to see him pitch.

Cause he's a guy that I like, but.

It was not pretty.

Yeah,

I was enjoying his nice start to the

season, but that was very surprising.

And I had some good money on

him to win that game,

so that hurt even more.

But, yeah, even in, like I said, in Duhar,

full for five with a home

run and four RBIs.

Yeah, that's a – I want to talk about that,

maybe not this week,

but that was strange.

That's another one of those

names that was a young –

yankee player that they had

high hopes on and just kind

of same with geo when he

came up uh who's now you

know doing his thing in

detroit but uh very

interesting to see that

oakland athletics team and

see how that shakes out and

with the move coming we

already talked about miller

are there any other pieces

that they try to move off

from and kind of build

Yeah, Alex Wood, two years from now.

Are they trying to build up for two years?

Not 2024, but 2025, 2026, build for those,

and then 2027 when they

move in potentially to their new stadium.

Do they have some exciting

names and prospects to

attract some attention and

build some buzz?

That's what I think is coming.

Very interesting with those

Atlanta Braves pitchers.

At this point in time,

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All right.

So now that we've talked

about the pitching and

we've talked about Lopez and his meltdown,

this is probably something

that a lot of people will

overlook just because of

where he's at and being a

young prospect and no one

really knows who he is.

But there is rumors floating

around of a lifetime band

You wrote about it, CJ,

or texted me about it.

Why don't you dive in about

this Lifetime gambling band?

And it's not Otani.

You don't want to butcher this name?

No, God no.

That's why I passed it on.

I believe it's Tucapita Marcano.

And I saw the tweet come across today.

I haven't had a chance to

read any story about it yet.

But I wanted to at least

touch on it for a second.

Sounds like he's getting a Lifetime band.

He's betting on baseball.

And now from, again, the Ohtani situation,

he wasn't betting on

baseball from what they said,

the interpreter.

Yep.

This is now the third one this season.

The interpreter was the first.

David Fletcher is an interesting one.

He was an Angels player with Otani.

He was the same bookie that

Otani's interpreter used and was,

I believe he's in the brave

system now at AAA.

He became a pitcher.

Yes, he's with the Gwinnett.

Stripers.

Stripers, yes.

Stripers, yep.

And he's pitching now.

Apparently he had a

knuckleball and he said, let me show it.

And then they ended up using him.

He's been a reliever.

And now they're saying he

was gambling on baseball.

Now there's an investigation there.

This Marcano one came across

as like the investigation's

been ongoing and it just

came across the desk of a

bunch of people.

And it hit quick.

And like I said,

I didn't have a chance to

actually read on it,

so that's something maybe

for next week where we touch on it.

But

wanted to put it out there

because it was breaking

news today and he's not I

went through the rankings

he's not in the top 25

anywhere that I could see

so he's not like a big name

prospect it seems like he

does have some lb

experience so that might be

why he's not a big name

prospect or anything but

yeah something to watch so

the only thing I'll say to this is

I know there's banned substances.

We've touched on that where

basically you can't get anything.

If you want something,

it should be supplied so

that it's on the team.

These major league teams and

major league in general,

you see the draft Kings

advertising everywhere.

Fan duel everywhere.

If the major leagues can make money off it,

why can't the players with

their own money?

You know, I mean, to me,

there's got to be ways

where if you're betting yourself,

they could probably, I mean,

I don't know.

It's just,

it's not a good look for

baseball if the players can't do it.

And I'm not saying that it's

the same because the

players shouldn't be

drinking while they're playing either.

You know what I mean?

But they advertise booze and

all that stuff.

But there's got to be a way that they can,

protect this because it's

only going to get worse.

It's only going to get worse.

Not just in Major League Baseball,

but all sports.

It was bad before and probably more hidden,

but now it's so easily accessible.

It's just going to get worse.

Something's got to be done about it.

It's going to be interesting.

It's going to be very

interesting to see if they're making a

an example out of this guy or what?

And the thing is, it'll probably be quiet.

We won't hear much about the details,

unfortunately.

But it's too bad.

It's too bad to see that in baseball.

Yeah, well, the issue, I think,

goes back to a little bit

of they don't know and it's

hard to prove if you're

gambling on your own team

and expecting the outcome.

I mean,

there was a basketball player that

I've heard about

where he was gambling on his

team that was affecting the

outcome of games.

Oh, yeah.

And he got suspended, I believe,

a lifetime ban this year as well.

Yeah,

I know exactly who you're talking about.

I can't remember if he was a

Spur or which team he played for.

But that pops into my head.

But, yeah,

these guys are going to do

whatever they can.

And there's so many

different ways around it,

having somebody else place

your bets and sharing it with them.

You know what I mean?

I'm sure that for every one

that they catch,

there's two or three others

doing the same thing but

are just smarter about it.

Yep.

Yep.

And it's happening everywhere.

Jameson Williams was guilty

of it for betting college

games for the Lions last

year or two years ago.

It was suspended last year.

And a couple of Colts players.

Like, it's happening in all the sports.

Yeah.

And I wouldn't be surprised

if it's happening in

college sports as well.

Well, yeah.

Yeah.

It's going to be tough to monitor.

Oh, yeah.

Yep.

So we'll move on from that.

Obviously,

we don't have the full details

because it was breaking news today.

Yep.

So we'll move on to the

other breaking news from today.

And that was Jose Orchidi.

Yeah.

Sounds like he's going for

his second Tommy John surgery.

He's going back to see a doctor,

and they haven't said

anything about it yet,

but that's what it indicates.

He was coming back.

He was on a rehab stint.

He had made three starts.

He was gone 10 and a third innings.

He's got a 6.97 ERA, eight strikeouts,

and a 1.45 FIP.

His last start came on the 24th of May,

three and two-thirds innings, four hits,

one run, three Ks.

Something's clearly not right.

You could tell.

I mean,

even the numbers speak to it sometimes,

and especially when you're

working at rehab back, I get it.

The first start's always

going to be ideal.

But the second and third starts,

those are always tough ones.

And that's a team we talked

about a couple weeks ago, the pitching.

You know,

that was the question for that team.

Can they make a comeback?

I mean, look, I said it to you.

You know, I don't count them out ever.

They can always come back.

They can always do something.

But Urquidy is an arm that I

liked watching,

and I think that's a tough loss for them.

and I was going to even say it tonight,

but he looks like he's figured it out,

was Verlander.

Another arm that doesn't

look as good as he has,

and that could be an age thing for him.

I'm not saying Tommy John or

an arm thing for him.

That could be an age thing for him.

But he's down right now to a

team that we're about to

talk about in about a minute or so.

Yeah, the Astros,

the only good thing is Hunter Brown,

the past three starts, all quality.

Yep.

So that's a big –

plus for this bad news,

but it'll be very interesting.

It's,

it's unfortunate to have to go

through what he's going through,

but he is, and that is what it is.

And we'll hopefully it won't be that.

That won't be the case,

but unfortunately for what

it looks like right now,

that is he's headed for another one.

That's what it all points to.

Yeah.

So we'll switch over now.

And I believe I have it on

my list correctly.

We're talking about a team

that is very back.

And that is the St.

Louis Cardinals.

It's part of why I wore the hat,

but they were also playing

tonight and the Red Sox weren't,

so I went with the Cardinals hat.

They're back in the playoff spot.

Seven for three the last 10 games.

Six and a half back.

That's since May 12th.

They're 13-5 and they've

outscored their opponents

89-78 in those games.

Sonny Gray.

Back holding that wild card spot.

That final one.

And right now they're up.

I can't tell if the Astros have scored,

but it was 4-2 last I looked.

Yeah.

The one name that doesn't

get as much recognition,

and I watched him at baseball last night,

he crushed a ball that just hooked foul,

is Mason Wynn.

He's been red hot.

It is 4-3,

bottom of the sixth with two outs.

Mason Wynn is looking well.

He's looking real well.

We have the trainer with him right now.

With Mason Wynn?

Yep.

Look at his hands.

Christ.

Yeah, in this stretch.

This 18-game stretch,

he's hitting .345 with a 0.927 OPS.

He has two home runs, nine runs scored,

and 12 RBIs.

The other two names in that

lineup that have been hitting well.

I mean, that whole lineup's been hitting.

But Nolan Gorman with a .291 average,

a 1.036 OPS, six home runs,

15 runs scored, and 14 RBIs.

And Paul Goldschmidt hitting .280.

with an 896 OPS, five home runs,

12 run score, and 11 RBIs.

And you touched on it, the arms,

Sonny Gray.

And I think the only name

that I want to talk about

besides in that rotation is Kyle Gibson.

Yeah.

The other three-agent arm.

We'll start with Gray.

Three and one and four

starts in that stretch.

415 ERA, 120 whip, 33 Ks,

and 21 and two-thirds innings.

Kyle Gibson's 2-0 and three

starts with a 3.3 ADRA, a 1.25 whip.

The strikeout number is not as high,

but that's 12 strikeouts

and 16 innings pitched.

Yeah.

Another question is,

can they catch the Brewers?

That's tough.

But this week it actually

plays into their favor.

They got three against the Astros,

which we'll see how this

game goes the rest of the night.

But then they got four against Colorado.

Yeah.

the Brewers have three

against the Phillies.

That's one of my ones that

we'll talk about that.

I want to see how they hold up.

And then they got three at Detroit.

And if that line,

if you figure it out for Detroit,

that could be a tough

series and they're going to face Google.

So that's another one.

Yeah.

So the Cardinals have a chance to,

they're not going to catch them this week,

but they have a chance to

make up some good solid

ground and get back in the race.

Definitely, definitely a team to watch.

I know they lost Newt Barr again,

who I like as an outfielder anyway,

just to watch him play.

He's fun to watch.

You know, he's just a gritty guy.

They have plenty of bats that can hit, but,

you know,

that Gorman is kind of hit or miss.

He's really kind of streaky,

but Goldschmidt,

and then the other one that

needs to start is Nolan Arenado.

He just brought home

Goldschmidt on an RBI

single that gave him the fourth run.

If he gets hot, too,

and you've got the corners

hitting and Mason Wynn

setting the table if he's not hurt,

that team with the pitching

they've got right now can

definitely make some noise

in that central because

it's a hot mess right now.

I really think they could

win that division.

The more I've watched them

over the last two weeks, I mean,

I watched them a lot during

that Red Sox series,

and that's what got me back

on the train of they might

actually not be that bad anymore.

And last year might have

just been a fluke and a

cold start to this year.

And since then, they've looked fantastic.

The one player I want to do

a little bit more homework

on is what Walker's been

doing down in Memphis.

Yes.

Because he's a name that

could be a nice addition if

he can get it figured out

down in AAA that you can

add a bat without making a trade.

We might blow this for them right here.

We started talking about it

and things went off the rails.

Well, I mean... That's what we do.

That's exactly right.

All right,

so we'll move on before they

blow this game.

Yeah, might as well.

Let's talk about pitching.

And two arms that were

talked about a lot this offseason,

and everybody thought they

were going to get the bag,

and they didn't get the bag.

They ended up taking cheaper deals and...

betting on themselves and the bet,

speaking of gambling,

kind of kicked him in the groin.

Blake's now signed with the Giants,

and he's now on the injured list.

Yep.

He struggled last week.

On May 27th, he went four innings,

four runs, three earned, five hits,

two walks, seven Ks.

And on Sunday, four and two-thirds,

three runs, three earned, five hits,

three walks, seven Ks,

now on the injured list.

He has not gotten a win.

His ERA is above nine.

And the big one,

and this is an argument

I've said to a lot of

people on why I didn't want

him to be a Red Sox when they asked,

and I said,

he doesn't seem like the kind

of guy that goes past the

fifth inning very much.

Well,

let's prove that because he hasn't

pitched over past the fifth

inning at all this year.

The farthest he's gone is

four and two-thirds.

And that's in how many starts?

Nine, I believe.

Nine starts and the guy

can't get out of the fifth inning.

And he didn't really go

through the fifth inning before either,

though.

No, no.

So that's the first arm.

Second one is Jordan Montgomery.

And he was linked to a lot of teams.

I mean,

the Rangers fans wanted him back

after helping them win a ring last year.

I mean, he was dominant in the postseason.

But actually, he really wasn't dominant.

No.

Everyone thought he was

because the Rangers won the World Series.

He didn't pitch horrible.

The lineup is what won that for them.

He wasn't horrible.

He held his own.

But he wasn't the guy that

was going to go in and just

shut everyone down.

He kept doing things.

He had weak contact,

and we have talked about that.

And that's just his stats at Fenway.

I didn't want him with the Red Sox.

I didn't want him with the Cubs.

I didn't really see a good fit with him.

I thought San Francisco

would have been a good fit.

The Diamondbacks kind of surprised me,

but with Erod's injury,

they made the move.

I think of the between him and Snell,

I think he'll have a better

season in full.

Yep.

But

Well, he got rocked on Friday.

He went four innings, gave up nine hits,

eight runs, six earned, three walks,

four Ks.

He's now 3-3 with an ERA just under 550,

1.55 whip, 28 Ks,

and 44 in the third innings pitched.

Yeah, not good.

So, not good.

And we just got breaking news.

You ready for this one?

Brewers are sending Robert Gasser.

For an evaluation of elbow soreness.

Good God.

And that's the guy we talked

about two weeks ago.

Yeah.

And about how he was looking good.

And it's another arm now.

You might as well start

talking about a different sport.

Yeah.

At this point,

there's going to be no arms left.

We're going to turn this

into a gambling show.

There we go.

Yeah, well,

don't bet on the Red Sox on

Sunday anymore.

Well, that's all over, yeah.

The Phillies did end up

beating the Brewers tonight.

Yes.

So the Cardinals can pick up a game.

Yep, they could.

Yeah, that's right.

So they'd be six back.

That's why they're six and a

half right now.

So they'd be six back.

Because they were seven

entering play today.

Yep.

The next big story from the last week.

Again, I told you there was a lot.

There is.

So hang with us.

Actually,

this is the last story from the

last week.

I believe, right?

Yep.

And that's Tommy Pham.

And that was yesterday.

Mm-hmm.

And that is,

I want to find the exact quote

while I talk about this story.

But if you didn't see it yesterday,

Tommy Pham was at third

base in the White Sox,

our miserable franchise.

Miserable.

I mean, they've lost 11 straight games,

and that includes yesterday.

And they're 15-45 on pace

for a 40-122 record,

which is the worst since I

believe I heard 1935.

Yeah.

I didn't even see it.

There might have been one team after that.

But it's not looking good.

And everybody talked about

the A's last year and how

they were bad and how they

were on pace for a record-setting season.

But yesterday, Tommy Pham,

one-run ballgame or was it tied?

Tied.

I want to say it was a one-run game.

Yeah.

It was on third,

and it was a shallow fly

ball to left field.

Christian Yelich, everybody knew,

was coming up firing.

And for some reason,

the third base coach sent Tommy Pham,

and he was out by a mile.

Yeah.

don't depends what broadcast

you listen to I thought

that white socks broadcast

was fantastic and how they

went off about the whole

situation yeah so you had a

chance to listen to the

broadcast listen to both

but the white socks

broadcast is fantastic

about the play um he was

out by a mile and got up

and contrast was just

pumped up I think contrast

was more yelling at

christian yellich yeah and

fam took it as he was

getting yelled at and so

things escalated nothing

extreme that happened like

there was no punches thrown

the home plate umpire just

separated fam from uh

contreras for the brewers

and fam went to the

outfield and was on his own

then he started shadow

boxing like that was the

way he's just getting ready

to go in the outfield and

then after the game the

first thing and I don't

have the quote for it but

the first thing that fam

said was he pretty much

threw all the blame on the

third base coach like

You're going?

Like you're sending me?

Okay.

Your job is to listen to the

fair base coach,

and he's sending me even

though everybody knew that

that ball was in and I was

going to get hosed.

But okay, I'll go because you told me to.

But then it was after that.

And Tommy Pham said,

there's a reason why I do

all kinds of fighting in the offseason,

because I'm prepared to fuck somebody up.

I loved it.

The other thing I heard today was,

what's his first name?

Pat Murphy for the Brewers, the head coach,

the manager?

Oh, I don't know.

It's Murphy, but I don't know.

It's Murphy.

I just can't remember his

first name always escapes me.

I want to say it's Pat Murphy.

Pulling it up.

Hold on.

Watch.

I'm just going to type in

Pat Murphy and something

weird is going to pop up.

Yeah, Pat Murphy.

So it's Pat Murphy.

And he pretty much said,

I don't have the Akuzak quote for him,

so I'm kind of going with a

little bit here.

But he pretty much said that

it was like a showcase,

like Tommy Pham was,

you guys see what I can do?

I can do this for you.

I'll stick up for you.

Almost like he wants to be a

brewer is what he took it as.

So, I don't know.

Pat Murphy liked it.

He wanted that kind of

energy for his team.

It was a very weird thing.

I mean,

Tommy Pham is notorious to be in

skirmishes.

I mean,

remember he went out to the field

and slapped Jock Peterson

in the face over fantasy football.

Hey, he's passionate.

He doesn't like to lose,

but he always seems to find

himself on a team that needs a body,

and he just performs.

I think one of the things, too, that

I don't think he's a bad teammate.

I think he's what coaches want because,

like you said,

he knew he was going to be out.

He could have very easily just not gone,

right?

But he did exactly what his

coaches asked of him and

was out by a mile and got shown up.

Whether Contreras is

cheering for Yelich or not,

that's a form of being shown up,

and he knows it's not on him.

He can run, but not with that, you know,

into short left.

I mean, short right either way.

Yelich has got a decent arm.

But, yeah, no, I wouldn't.

To be honest,

he makes a whole lot of sense

as a veteran right-handed

bat for the Brewers,

now that you mention that.

Did you see the video?

Yeah.

What are your thoughts?

Did he go up the line?

See,

I have a hard time with the whole

blocking the plate and all

that BS because I'm a

little older and I'm not

opposed to seeing a little

bit of contact.

I don't think it was

anything to challenge or to go after.

I think he was out by so far.

It doesn't really matter.

He was just... Yeah.

It's...

Could there be an argument made for it?

Sure,

but I'm opposed to any of that kind

of the blocking the plate stuff.

I mean,

I want to protect the players and all too,

but I don't know.

I'm not for that right now.

I mean, I think he was up the line,

but I don't think he was

intent to hurt or anything like that.

I think he was just out by a

mile and trying to do some

kind of slide move to try to get in there,

but I think that's all it was.

Yeah,

I think the whole thing is like if

you're going to

If the catchers have their

location where they can call safe,

all you're really doing is

giving the runners more

space to do those kind of strange,

funky slides to avoid.

You know what I mean?

So if you're going to take

away some of that from the catchers,

all you're really doing is

giving more leeway to the runners.

Yeah, I mean,

it was just such a weird play.

There was a couple of weird

calls this weekend in

regards to the third base

coaches sending.

The Cubs had it.

I think that was, jeez, I don't even know.

It was Nick Madrigal was sent from third.

This might have been Friday

night now that I think about it.

And it's hit into the corner and left.

Hubert, I think is his name,

threw it to De La Cruz,

who's got a freaking cannon,

and Magical was out by a mile, too.

Their base coach has got to figure it out.

Yeah, it was pretty ugly.

So now with that said, and again,

there was a lot to cover, let's...

Take another little quick

pause before we get into the prospects.

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All right, CJ.

One of my favorite parts now

is the prospects.

And I know you've got a lot

of new stuff going and a

lot of stuff that we've

talked about that I've yet

to be able to really get

work situated so I can be a

bigger part of it.

But why don't you talk to

everyone about the top

prospects and some of the

stuff you've got going on on the website?

You're muted, bud.

That's good.

There we go.

All right.

So if you're not familiar,

we were doing down on the farm,

and we were doing, what was there, six,

seven teams I think we talked about?

Yeah.

Now we're down to probably three,

maybe four,

and really focused on the Red Sox, Reds,

Cubs, and Rangers there.

The other thing I started

doing was we're doing by league.

So I started doing the

Eastern League and the

International League.

And with doing this, you find more players,

because what I was doing

was I wanted to make sure

that every team in each

league was covered.

So, for instance,

say the Royals and AAA

don't have a prospect in the top 100.

I'm doing an honorable mention,

so at least somebody in

their system is being mentioned.

So what I was doing that is

I want to go through the AA,

the Eastern League, because I feel like

A lot of people focus on the

top five prospects and then

AAA because they're right

before the majors.

And what I've noticed over

the last week doing the

Eastern League is there was

a lot of good talent there this week.

Even the names in the top 100.

So I'm going to go through a couple teams.

And if you're a fan of this team,

this is something you're

going to want to tune in for.

We're going to start with Binghamton.

They're the AA affiliate of

the New York Mets.

And their prospect, too, once I get my...

Rankings updated.

This guy will be in my top 100.

His name is Brandon Sprope.

I believe that's how you say

his last name.

Last week, he went seven innings, one hit,

didn't allow a run, walked one,

and struck out 10,

which is a career high for him.

Down in Bowie,

the AA affiliate of the Orioles,

two names we already mentioned tonight,

Judd Fabian and Samuel Basalo,

have combined for 16 home

runs and 48 RBIs this season.

Two names I mentioned in

that trade for Jesus Lizardo.

And the more I thought about

it after the article came

out and I saw their stats,

maybe you don't trade them.

Where's Fabian?

What position?

Outfield.

I actually watched him a lot in college.

He was at Florida.

Yes, okay.

That's why it sounds so familiar.

You think about that trade even more now,

and you just mentioned

Fabian as an outfielder for power,

and then the catcher.

The Marlins don't have

chip for catching they have

no hitting prospects not

their top three prospects

in their system are all

pitching I don't I think I

think when the first bat

comes into play it might

even be four might be six

it's like right around that

area but it's it's it's not

good that's not even I said

that in the article I said

they need a hitting

prospect in the top 100

that can help them but I i

the more I think about I

just I don't know if I want

to trade them and fabian

was actually drafted by the

Red Sox and didn't get a

deal done and went back to Florida,

from what I remember.

I believe,

I don't know if that was out of

high school, if that was out of Florida,

but I do know he was

drafted by the Red Sox originally,

did not get a deal done and went back.

The other player there is Kyle, geez,

I'm going to butcher this name,

but I want to say it's Bovich.

He went six innings, didn't allow a hit,

didn't allow a run, walked one,

and struck out six.

Another team is Portland,

which we talk about this

one a lot because we're Red Sox fans.

Kyle Thiel last week was a great week.

10 for 24.

He had three home runs.

Two of them saved the game

for the Seadogs.

One of them on Friday,

both of them actually came

in the ninth inning.

On Friday, they were down 6-5 to Altoona,

who's the AA affiliate of the Pirates.

And they scored 6th in the 8th.

Or, I'm sorry,

Altoona scored 6th in the

8th to take the lead.

And then Kyle Thiel hit a

3-run homer on the tie,

and the Seadogs would win in extras.

On Saturday, he did it again.

He had a grand slam to make

it 6-4 Portland.

Altoona ended up tying it

7-7 in the bottom of the 9th.

And Portland would win it in the 10th.

Kyle Thiel's making a name to put his...

put himself behind the plate in AAA.

Another one, Marcelo Meyer.

Leads the league in doubles with 19.

He's eighth in batting average with a 295.

He has six home runs and 27 RBIs.

Another name in the top 100

that... When does he get moved up?

He's got to be moved up soon.

I don't know.

At least, I mean, you look at it.

I mean, yeah,

they got Rafael playing short right now,

but even my father and I

were having that conversation last

You know,

he's your best athlete on the

team right now.

Is that really where he belongs?

Is it short?

You can move him anywhere.

You could put him in third.

You could put him in second.

I just think you've got to

get him in the AAA at some point soon.

Even if he's an idea to call

up in September,

you've got to get him in

the AAA at some point.

Get him to Worcester, see what he can do,

and go from there.

Because you still don't...

Trevor Story's probably not

coming back this year until maybe...

end of the year and even if

so it's probably better fit

to be your dh he's not

coming back at all I don't

think and if he does come

back next year how long do

you expect to have him for

put him at dh yeah well you

get your sheet is contract

you gotta deal with 90

million and nobody wants

that you know who you

should yoshida reminds me

of is kosuke fuki joma or

whatever from the from the cubs that's

When he first came to Boston, I'm like,

geez, I've seen this before.

I've seen this before, all too familiar.

But hopefully he can prove me wrong.

But, yeah,

I didn't mean to cut in there with Meyer,

but he's a good one.

I'm interested to see what

he can do at the next level.

That's exactly why I want to

bring this stuff in because

it's stuff like you just

said people don't know and all that.

The last one for Portland is

my favorite prospect to watch,

and I've been locked in on him.

since he was in Greenville.

It's Luis Perales.

He got promoted to AA Portland.

He made his first start last week.

Got a win.

Went five innings, gave up two hits,

allowed one run, was not earned,

walked one, and struck out seven.

This guy,

when I update my Red Sox rankings,

might be making his way to the top five.

Mike, I've got to look at it again,

but Gonzalez might have to fall,

and I think Perales might

take over as the top

pitching prospect in the system.

Yep.

I wrote an article, too, the other day,

the forearms in the system

that are surprising everybody.

And I also mentioned how I

like Cooper Criswell.

I saw him pitch on Saturday.

He pitched well.

He faced a tough Tigers

lineup that's struggling.

And I debated,

do you call up Richard Fitz

and have him become that

starter and see what you got with him?

Because he just turned in a

brilliant outing last week for Worcester.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's worth a shot.

Next one,

I don't know how they keep doing it.

They just keep finding bats.

It's the Somerset Patriots,

which is a AA affiliate of

the New York Yankees.

They currently have Jason Dominguez,

and he's on a rehab assignment.

He's actually just moved up to AAA today,

so he'll be at Scranton-Wilkes-Barre.

They also have Spencer Jones,

who's the top bat for them

in the prospect rankings.

Dominguez,

Six for 16, three home runs, five RBIs,

five runs scored.

And that's it.

I don't know what the small

sample size is.

It's a rehab assignment.

Spencer Jones,

seven for 23 with a home run, seven RBIs,

and one run scored.

I talked about him after the

prospect showcased this

offseason and how he's

going to just be another

bat to that lineup.

Put that ad in,

they got two more down there.

Ben Rice and Augustin Ramirez.

Both of them have 12 home runs,

which leads the Eastern League.

Ramirez has 35 RBIs and 37 runs scored.

Rice has 26 RBIs and 34 runs scored.

Either of those guys first baseman.

I know Dominguez plays on

the outfield anywhere.

I don't believe so.

I think one's actually a catcher.

Great.

I think Ramirez is a catcher

off the top of my head.

I'm pulling it up right now.

Ben Rice is from Massachusetts,

and he's a catcher.

So Rice is the catcher.

Okay.

I don't know why I asked

that about first base,

because that seems to be a

spot that if you can keep Soto,

keep Judge,

and you know Dominguez is coming up,

and you throw one of those.

Spencer Jones is outfielder too, right?

Yeah,

but he's probably going to be the D.H.

I think they're going to end

up trying to move Stanton,

and Spencer Jones will end

up being the D.H.,

But both of those guys, Ramirez and Rice,

catcher,

and Ramirez can also play first base.

Okay,

so there is someone for first down

the line there.

You're right.

They constantly,

and Dominguez is someone

that's on a rehab stint,

but they've got some youth,

and they always find it.

And Garrett Cole will be

there on Tuesday rehabbing.

They're hitting the top of the division,

and I believe it's the East.

I think I forgot what it was,

Eastern League, East Division.

Yeah.

They're up there with

Portland leads the division.

Yeah, I did know that.

They just took it over.

I think it was Hartford for

a little while.

The Yardgoats?

Yep,

and they're dealing with some injuries

there too.

Yeah.

Next one is Harrisburg,

and the only big name that

I want to talk about right now.

There is another one there.

I wrote an article because I

covered the game against

the Fisher Cats a couple weeks ago.

Their one through five on a

normal day is just loaded

for the Nationals' future.

But the big one is Dylan Cruz,

who was drafted after Paul

Skeens last year.

He was talked about as

potentially going to the Pirates.

And the Pirates went Skeens,

Nationals went Cruz.

So Cruz has had a hit in

every game this past week.

He went eight for 22 with a home run,

three RBIs, and three runs scored.

So he's a name to watch.

He didn't look great when I saw him,

but you can see it's there.

It was an off game for him.

The next one is New Hampshire,

Fisher Katz.

This is a name I've followed a lot,

and he's in my top 10.

I don't have him making the top 100,

at least for a little while,

but it's Josh Kosevich.

He's fifth in the Eastern

League in RBIs with 32,

second in batting average with a 311,

and fifth.

with doubles with 12.

So it's a bat to watch.

The Blue Jays,

clearly a lot of question marks there.

And I think Arovis Martinez

I've talked about at AAA is

the one that's going to come up.

I think once he gets called up,

I wouldn't be surprised if

he sees Kosevich head to Buffalo.

Makes sense.

We'll see what happens there.

The other one,

he's been an honorable

mention every week for the

Richmond Flying Tigers,

who are the AA affiliate of

the San Francisco Giants.

It's Hayden birdsong this season.

He's four and two with a 2.28 ERA,

which is fourth in the Eastern league,

a 1.13 whip,

which is eighth in the

Eastern league and 55 strikeouts,

which is sixth.

Yeah.

He's been someone I've been

covering a little bit.

I don't know if I'll have

him in the top 100,

but he's a name that I

think could be borderline by mid season.

Yep.

And that's,

The seven teams I want to talk about.

I mean, there's 12 teams there.

So the teams I didn't

mention were Hartford, who's Colorado.

I didn't mention.

Wow, this is going to bug me.

I'll try to go through

division by division on who I missed.

I didn't mention Akron, the rubber ducks,

the AA affiliate.

I didn't mention Erie, the AA affiliate,

the Tigers.

I didn't mention... I think

I covered that whole division after that.

I didn't mention Redding.

Redding's at the bottom of the division,

so there's not much happening there.

I think the name of the

watch that might get called

up there by the end of the

season is Justin Crawford.

But they're dealing with...

I think the other one they

have there is a Beller Painter.

One's in AAA, the other one's in AA.

And the one that's in AA, I believe,

is out for the season.

Or I might have those flip-flopped.

So...

there are some teams I didn't cover there.

Um, but there is a lot of talent there.

So if you have MLB TV,

I highly recommend picking

your favorite team,

or even if you want to see

anybody pick a different

team and tune into some double a baseball,

because it is some serious talent there.

I mean, there's Fabian.

I'm going to make the conversation.

He could make the top 100

soon for all sites to cover prospects.

Yeah.

Which is by the numbers he's putting up.

Okay.

No, I, I,

I know you and I have talked.

I know there's more that you

want to build off of that.

And I know it's more

consistency than anything

in regards to these

prospects so that we keep it going.

So it's not a one and done.

You've done a great job with

what you're working on.

I know that there's things I

would like to be able to help you with.

And I'm hoping to here is, you know,

in the next by July to get

in a real steady rhythm to

be able to do more because the,

like you said, with MLB TV,

I think it was,

want to say it was Paul

Skeen's last AAA start and

I just clicked on the

Pirates as my favorite team

and then of course all four

affiliates come across at

the bottom I still think

that MLB that package is

probably the best bang for

your buck out of all the

other sports packages I

know football is a great

one if you're big into

hockey or basketball sure

I'm sure those are great

too but in terms of

baseball and just there's

always a game on no matter what.

And if you're a real true

fan of a team and you can't

see these games, I mean,

I had the sea dogs game on,

I think it was not this weekend.

It wasn't this weekend.

It was a past weekend.

And I was watching that, you know,

that's something that you

can watch any of the time you've,

especially when a player goes down,

you know,

when Garrett Cole makes his rehab start,

you can go watch it.

Yep.

I'll have it on tomorrow.

Yeah.

It's just it's there's so

much you can do with it and watch.

It's just a great if you're a baseball fan,

I don't think there's another way,

because right now,

the way you view baseball,

you have to have so many

different stupid streaming

services just to see games.

You've got it all right there.

It does stink if you're in

the market and you want to

use it to watch.

Like,

I can't I can't watch any Red Sox

games personally and rewatch them.

But any Cubs game I want, any Reds games,

any of these games,

I find myself watching,

flipping back and forth if

the big inning's not on.

I'll just go back and forth

and watch whatever game

piques my interest or whoever's pitching.

So there's a lot you can do with it,

and this minor league stuff

probably puts it above and

beyond any of the others out there.

Yeah.

And one thing, actually,

that they're doing this year,

and I want to touch on this really quick,

it was announced today,

and I haven't full –

deep dived into it or deep

dove I guess into it

they're doing a skill

showcase this year for the

prospects and so typically

all-star weekend in the

past it's changed so many

times I believe sunday of

the all-star weekend is the

uh pros the prospect game

yeah and then they do that

and then I believe that

night is the draft now it

used to not be that night

but now I believe the draft

is sunday night monday is

the derby and then tuesday

is the all-star game this

year they added in the

showcase on saturday yeah

what it sounds like there's

round one is hit it here

and they will aim to hit

infield and outfield

targets in order to earn

points so that they see

they're hitting on display

round two is call your shots

They'll have a number of

swings to showcase their back control.

They announce which field, left, right,

or center, they want to hit the ball to.

If successful,

then they choose to hit

another one of the other

two remaining fields.

And once successful,

they have to hit to the last field.

Round two favorites.

And then round three is

swing for the fences,

where they show off their power.

So you're going to get a chance to see.

I wish they would do

something for pitching,

but it sounds like you're

going to get the chance to see.

Kind of like they do for NBA, NFL games.

All of those big leaguers

get to do the home run derby,

but it sounds like the

minor leaguers are going to

do a skills competition.

So you get to see the

hitters that they are,

and that's a product that

I'm glad they're doing

because you get to see more

from different guys you

wouldn't normally care

about or want to follow.

But if you're a baseball fan,

that's something you

definitely want to tune into.

I'll be locked into it.

Yeah.

Definitely worth a watch just to see,

and it's a different spin on it.

Mm-hmm.

I wish they'd do that for the big leagues.

They might.

I mean, if it takes off,

they might adapt and do

something different to

speed it up and see what takes place.

Maybe this is a trial.

Never know.

They always start in the

minor leagues with the

things they want to tweak.

So now that we're through

the prospects in the end,

I want to just touch base,

and I'll give my series of

the week that I'm tuned in

on right now for the series,

the one specifically that I'm –

I'm looking forward to watching is, well,

actually, I should say there's two.

The first is in the NL or

the American League Central.

I want to see the Kansas

City Royals and the Cleveland Guardians.

And then the other one that

I'm tuned in on and

interested in is the

Cardinals Astros for the

same reasons we've already discussed.

The Astros are making a surge while the

cubs are falling apart and

that's a series right there

this week that I'm

interested in the cardinals

astros and again the the

kansas city royals and the

cleveland guardians the

royals are an interesting

team to me because they

have some power in that

lineup with perez and wit and vinny p but

there's a lot of room for

improvement there in that lineup.

The pitching has been

holding it together for him pretty well.

So I'll be very interested

in the Royals this weekend

against the division

leading guardians to see

how they hold their own.

Cause I think it's as much

as I'd like to say,

it's a three team race.

I think right now it looks

like it's going to be these two,

unless something, you know,

the tigers get red hot or

Royce Lewis comes back and

really sets the twins on fire.

Yeah.

My two for the week,

I'm going to call you one

of them as Royals Guardians.

I did some more on the pitching matchup.

They didn't announce anything.

Nothing.

The first game's it.

It's Lugo versus McKenzie.

Yeah.

And then game two is TBD versus Singer,

and then game three is TBD.

Yeah.

But I want to see what both

of those teams can do against the teams.

They're going to really be – like you said,

the two teams –

They're gonna fight for the central.

Mm-hmm.

Unless the Tigers lineup

leaks up Which Torkelson

going on triple-a we didn't

even touch on that Spencer

to know that hurt I didn't

almost sent you a message when I saw it,

but I didn't want to didn't

want to rub it in because I

like I wanted I think it's

the best movie could have

made was send him down and

figure it out and you

called the right guy up

It's the first time I think

where they've made a call

up like this where I'm

actually okay with the call-up.

I

I'm excited to see Molloy.

I'm excited to see what he does.

He's a top 10 in my Tigers top 10.

And I was calling for him

all of last year.

So I'm glad it's finally happening.

I think he went 0-2 tonight.

I believe he walked.

I'm not positive.

The Tigers won over the Rangers.

They did, yeah.

Behind two Jake Rogers home runs.

The guy that everybody,

when I wrote an article

about Torkelson getting

sent down and the roster

moves from today.

People were commenting on it

saying Rodgers is next.

Well, if Rodgers got sent down,

you wouldn't have a single run tonight.

Nope.

So, Malloy went 0-3 with two Ks.

So, an adjustment,

but Torkelson probably

would have gave you the

same thing with what he's

been doing lately.

Yeah, unfortunately.

It doesn't matter what the name is.

That would have been the same thing.

The other series for the week,

and I got two for the weekend,

which I'm sure you'll steal one of them,

Dodgers-Pirates.

And the only reason I picked

that series was the first

game is Tyler Glasnow versus Jared Jones.

Yep.

The second game,

welcome to the big leagues, Rook.

Paul Skeens versus James Paxton.

Have you seen any of the

Kenny Powers readovers for

Paul Skeens interviews?

No.

Oh, dear God.

They're great.

They're great.

It's hilarious,

and they fit because of

what he's doing so far,

but that's a good matchup

there too that'll be

interesting just in terms

of the pitching itself.

And then do you want to do

the weekend first?

I'll let you go because I

know one that you're going

to potentially steal is one

that I've got my eyes on

for different reasons, but go ahead.

The first one I'll do is the obvious one,

the potential World Series

matchup of Yankees-Dodgers.

First game Fridays on fucking Apple TV.

I just bought it because the

Red Sox are on back-to-back Fridays.

Yeah.

So I got it.

And so now I'm happy I got

it because that's another one.

And I wasn't going to buy it.

I was like, oh, you know what?

I'll do the seven-day free trial,

which maybe is what I did.

And I didn't buy it actually yet.

But the Red Sox are on again

at the end of June.

So I was like,

buying it for a month just makes sense.

It is a good broadcast.

I will say that.

My favorite part?

The broadcast is okay.

Okay.

My favorite part about it is

you can pick the radio

broadcasts in the right corner.

You can pick your favorite

team and go to their radio broadcast.

So I watched both Red Sox.

Well,

I found out about it for the Tigers game.

I watched Friday's game with

Joe Castiglione and Will

Fleming calling the game.

That's my new thing.

I'm not going to listen to

the Apple TV broadcast.

No, it's just nice.

Not the graphics,

but the actual footage of the game,

great.

But having that as an option,

can't beat it.

I got tired listening to

them talk about the Mookie Betts trade,

how you got Connor Wong for anything.

I was all set after that.

Like, why are we going back to this?

So long ago.

Leave it.

Four years.

Leave it alone.

Like, Rodrigo's not here anymore.

Who cares?

We didn't keep the best

player in baseball or one

of the best players in baseball.

Yeah.

But the pitching matchups.

I went through them today, and again,

they're not announced,

but I went through them

based on who should start.

Yeah.

It looks like Yamamoto's

getting the first game.

Mm-hmm.

And he's supposed to face,

I think his name's Potet.

I don't even know how you say his name,

but I think that's supposed

to be Clark Schmidt's spot.

The other one is Gavin Stone versus Cortez,

but Sunday Night Baseball.

Luis Hill or Gil, again,

however you say it,

against Tyler Glasnow.

Two of the hottest pitchers

in baseball right now.

And if you're not familiar,

I'm going to drop a plug in real quick.

I wrote on Saturday,

went live with a graphic as well.

The top 10 starting pitcher

power rankings for us.

I'm not sure if I'm going to

do that every week or if

I'm going to do it every two weeks.

Okay.

But as of right now,

Tyler Glass is number two.

If you want to see who's on it,

that article is available.

If not, the graphic is also available.

Either one.

But the top 10 is out.

Chris Sale was on it,

and that might change.

We'll see what he does in his next start.

So give that a check.

But Glasnow is number two.

So I'll tease that.

The other series,

I'm sticking with a team we

already talked about,

and I'm going with Mariners-Royals.

Yeah.

And I looked at the pitching matchups.

That's supposed to be Alec

Marsh against Bryce Miller,

Cole Reagans against Luis Castillo,

and Sundays is the best one.

Seth Lugo versus George Kirby.

I think Sunday is just made

for a pitching.

It is.

There's some good ones this weekend.

The Yankees-Dodgers was one

I was interested in,

but that was one that was

kind of underlying to me

because depending on how

they fare against the Guardians,

they go and play the Mariners,

and they can win that series.

That, to me, proves quite a bit,

especially with that

pitching that the Mariners have.

Is it wrong to say if they win,

if they go 5-2 this week

with one loss against each of those teams,

that they can be probably a game,

game and a half back?

Yeah, I mean, it's not that far off.

I don't know who the

Guardians have this weekend.

Well, the Guardians have the Marlins,

so it's going to be a

little harder to make up ground there.

Never mind.

Oh,

and we should also talk about the

London series.

Yeah, that's a little wonky there with,

I believe the Mets are

facing off against the Phillies,

which is why Christian

Scott got moved down is

because of so many days off.

They figured might as well send him down.

The other one really quick.

I wasn't,

I'm not as intrigued by that

tonight watching the Rangers game,

but it is a,

Is it a World Series?

It is a World Series rematch, isn't it?

Rangers, Giants?

No, it was the Rangers and Diamondbacks.

No, no, no, but I think it was... Oh, oh,

oh, oh, oh, yeah.

2012.

Yeah.

Because 2010 was Tigers, 2012 was Rangers.

Yeah.

And 20... Oh, maybe I have that backwards.

It was... Royals was the

14-1 because they won it in 15. 14...

was the Rangers, and 12 was the Tigers.

That's what it was.

Okay.

So my series that I'm most interested in,

obviously the one that we mentioned,

the Royals, Mariners, the Yankees,

Dodgers,

just because of the pitching matchup.

So those two we know.

The other two that I'm tuned

in on are obviously the Cubs-Reds.

The Reds are playing better

baseball right now.

They've got TJ Friedel back.

They've got the arms pitching well.

If the Reds can go in and take that series,

there's a chance that the Cubs,

as I've said,

could fall into fourth place.

But the other series, for me,

that's more intriguing is

based off of what they do

against the Astros,

and that's the Cardinals.

If the Cardinals can win the

series against the Astros...

they then get the rockies

and it is I believe it's in

st louis but if they can

come out and they can take

on and they can win the

series against the astros

they actually have a four

game series against the

rockies and the most likely

they're going to be six

games back at the end of

play tonight if they can

pull out that one yep the

brewers play the tigers

So if the Brewers even win that series 2-1,

or if they even, God forbid,

lose the series 1-2,

we could be going into Monday with St.

Louis a game, game and a half back.

And that, to me, is...

scary for the rest of the

National League Central.

The Reds, too.

I mean,

the Reds could come back and we

could see the Cubs fall down even further,

especially with the way

Pittsburgh's pitching

staff's been pitching.

And that to me is a big one.

The Cubs have to stop this

slide against Cincinnati in

Cincinnati this weekend.

But the Cardinals, to me,

even though it's not going

to be a great series overall,

if they come in and do what

they're capable of and keep

that winning streak going and momentum,

it could really catapult

them into the next week.

And that to me is the most

interesting is that what

this Cardinals team will do,

because I think next week,

especially they go back and

they've got the Pirates.

So it'll be another

divisional matchup to start.

So it's going to be very

interesting to see what happens.

And the Cardinals team, for me,

I love to watch Sonny Gray

pitch in general, but I really like,

as much as their arrival,

I enjoy watching their baseball games.

They're a lot of fun to watch.

Yeah.

So that's what I've got for the weekend.

Go ahead.

One other thing I want to plug is...

As a baseball podcast where

we cover prospects and everything,

it's College World Series time.

Yeah.

So that started this weekend.

And to me, I love March Madness.

The College World Series is

tough because you could be

the one seed and you go

into the first weekend of play.

And whereas in college basketball,

it's not likely a 16 seed

is going to upset you.

You go into college baseball, you go in,

and you get the fourth seed

in your region.

You lose, you're in the loser's bracket.

You lose right there, you're done.

And if you go into the loser's bracket,

you've got to win out,

and you're going to get a

team potentially that beat

you twice in the finals in that region.

It's just very tough to do.

I'm watching UConn, Oklahoma right now,

and Oklahoma won yesterday

to force the decisive game today.

And UConn's up 6-0 right now.

Yeah.

And so it's a perfect

example of Oklahoma's a 6 seed.

Yeah.

Or the 6th overall seed in the tournament.

And UConn just barely got in.

I think they're a 3 seed in that region.

And UConn steamrolled until

they lost yesterday,

and now they're up 6-0.

It's a lot of fun, but like you said,

you get in that loser's bracket.

It's tough sledding because

there's no mistakes.

The other thing about it, too,

and I want to touch on this really quick.

I wrote the beginning of

this before MLB started

college baseball season.

I talked about the three big

arms going into the draft

and how they were surprising everybody.

All three of those arms

after today are gone.

I'm sorry, three of the four.

Technically, Jack Cagliano...

who I wrote was potentially

the next Shohei.

I mean, the guy crushes baseballs,

and he left the arm.

Florida moved on today,

so Florida's still alive.

He pitched on Saturday and

actually got lit up by Oklahoma State.

So, I mean,

it's a fun time for college baseball.

Now they're going to enter

Super Regional weekend.

After this weekend,

we'll know who's the eight

teams in the College World

Series heading to Omaha.

And then after that, it's, you know,

the four teams from each side,

they face off.

And then after that,

we get the championship.

Yeah, it's a lot of fun.

If you're not huge in the college,

that's fine.

But this is the weekend to

start to tune in.

And again, we're, I guess,

we're cursed because now

Oklahoma's starting to get guys on.

They're just running all over the place.

It's tough for me personally

because as much as I like

college baseball and watching it,

I do enjoy watching the

college softball world series too.

It's not the same sport,

but it's the same premise and it's,

it's a lot of fun.

I watch a lot of that too

with my daughter when we can,

when she doesn't have her own games,

but I was watching quite a

bit of the college baseball

cause on ESPN plus just pop

it on four different

screens and then whatever games not on,

know uh a big moment you

just make that the big one

and and navigate it but it

is a lot of fun it is tough

you hear them talking about

okay they win this game and

then they play again

tonight yep now this is

it's real this is they go

after it they do have deep

rosters but at the same

time it's it's a lot of fun

right now to see I watched

the st john's against

mississippi state and

watched that game yesterday

and st john's got knocked out but yeah

It's a lot of fun.

West Virginia, I believe,

just made the Super

Regionals for the first time in history.

From what I've heard,

I don't know if I didn't go

back all the way,

but that's what I had heard.

There's also an option if

you like Red Zone or MLB Big Inning,

there is an option on ESPN

Plus called Squeeze Play

where all the teams are on

that one screen.

We brought up the Cardinals

again and they just went down 6-4.

Well, good, but I mean,

I don't want to jinx everybody.

I don't know.

Is there a team you want to

talk about before we get out of here?

No, I think the biggest thing for me,

one thing I saw,

and this is the last thing I'll say, is,

and I think it was, and don't quote me,

1988,

Roger Clemens had 23 complete games.

Bruce Hurst had 15.

Last year,

there was 35 in all of baseball.

Yep.

pretty incredible the

changes now again they

handle the arms a little

bit different but at the

same time that to me was

something my father and I

were talking about that was

just it's not the same for

multiple reasons but it's

you know those guys used to

really go out and battle

and throw and I don't know

they they do pitch counts

but at the same time are

they tracking all the days

I mean they don't really

have off days anymore

because it's a throwing program

They're always throwing.

And then they throw like 100

pitchers for a warm-up.

Yeah.

So it was an interesting

thing that kind of stood

out to me is you just don't

see it anymore.

And it's almost as big as

someone throwing a complete

game is almost like someone

throwing a no-hitter or a

one-hitter these days.

Yeah.

And that brings the question, though,

and I think the closest one is Verlander.

With that being said,

with guys going as short as

they do in the bullpen depth,

are we ever going to see

another 300-win pitcher?

I don't think we will.

That's going to be tough.

And not to drag it out any longer,

but I think we'll be

talking about Verlander for

a couple of weeks now,

depending on what happens in Houston.

He's not getting any younger

and wants to win.

That would probably come pretty cheap.

Does he, though?

I saw he said when he was

back in Detroit that he was

fine with going back to

Detroit to end his career.

And the Tigers, like we said,

they're falling off.

I think they're roughly 10 games out,

if not nine.

I mean,

he wants to go back to Detroit in

his career.

That could be a cheap,

cheap arm for Baltimore if

they don't make a move for Lizardo.

Not that they need him,

but in terms of what it

would cost compared to Lizardo,

give him the opportunity to go out on top,

and he's not the ace.

As long as he doesn't go to

the Yankees and somehow

figure something out magically.

What, and pitch another three years?

Be the Tom Brady?

Yeah.

I mean,

that was the most dominant pitcher

for a while.

Oh, it's unreal.

I don't know how he does it.

What's he have?

Three career no-hitters?

Two at least, right?

Yeah.

He gets better as the games go on.

Yep.

Just like his career.

And I guess you could say

the same for tonight

because he looked rocky to start.

He had four runs in the

first three innings.

And then all of a sudden, that was it.

So, same thing tonight.

yeah but interesting no lot

going on a lot to cover um

really excited to see the

growth in the prospect the

eastern league and um

what's still doing the

eastern league and

international which is

triple a is the triple and

then eastern double

international league will

cover so the easterly is

weird it covers a variety

of different teams

The International League is

pretty straightforward.

It covers all of the

American League and

National League East and

the American League and

National League Central.

All 20 teams between those

four divisions are covered in that.

There is one prospect for every team.

Even if your team doesn't

have a prospect in the top 100,

there is a player included

from that affiliate.

Those are both out every Monday.

I try my best to get both of those out.

If not,

they're both out Tuesday morning

before any team starts play.

It's a lot of work.

You're doing a good job with it.

It's definitely for anyone

that isn't even that big of

a minor league fan or even

a big league fan.

If you just want to learn a little bit,

it's a quick read, a lot of information,

a lot of good information,

a lot of names that you

probably should know.

And it has the – if you just

want to know how the team is doing.

So if you listen to this and

you're a team – a fan of somebody,

like a team is in your area.

So, for instance, for me,

Fisher Cats are close by.

I follow the Fisher Cats,

Blue Jays AA affiliate.

But I include the standings

going into the week and the

standings going following

the week and what's next up

for the next week.

So who are they playing?

Where are they?

Could you go see a game?

You know, everything's there.

It's –

It's a lot of work,

but everything is there for you,

so everything you want to know,

everything you need to know.

I'm open to ideas, too,

so if anybody has any ideas

of something they want to see in this,

feel free to reach out in

the comments of the article.

Maybe I do something where

if a player like Garrett Cole is on rehab,

I include something like that in there.

Anything you want to see, let me know.

Open to ideas.

Perfect.

Well, everyone, for myself,

I don't have anything else

to add for tonight.

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CJ, thanks a lot for joining tonight.

Appreciate it.

Always good to talk to you about baseball.

I'm looking forward to next week.

Glad you're back.

Enjoy your week, everybody.

All right.

Take care.