Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: WVUAFM Tuscaloosa and welcome back to student section MLB here on this beautiful Monday night at 653. It's good to be back, boys. How we doing? It's host Luke Tory, joined by Tyler.
[00:00:23] Speaker B: Harrison and Luke Anderson.
[00:00:25] Speaker A: And boy, do we got a lot to cover. I guess we'll just get right into it. That's the home stretch, boys. I mean, twelve games left, twelve games remaining in the MLB season before all of our favorite times of the year, the best time for all sports. But play off baseball. I know we all can't wait.
We can start off with division races. I mean, the AL east, we'll start off there. Yankees.
I know I wasn't, you know, I'll get into the Yankees later, but you know, we got a three game lead on the division. I like where we're at right now, our remaining schedule. It's not that, it's, it doesn't look that bad. We got three with the Mariners, three with Oakland, and then we come back from that West coast trip, have three with Baltimore, which is going to be a crucial series.
[00:01:14] Speaker C: Oakland gave you all trouble early in the season.
[00:01:16] Speaker A: They did. And then we finish out with Pittsburgh. But three games up with twelve to go and three against the Orioles. It's not a lock that we're winning the division, I'll tell you that. Especially the Orioles play teams. They played Detroit.
They just dropped two out of three. Two, by the way. Like to who? To Detroit. The Orioles.
[00:01:38] Speaker C: They play again?
[00:01:39] Speaker A: Yeah, they play San Fran and then their home versus Detroit, they should probably win those. And then it's the series in New York, which again is going to be a very, very crucial series. What are your guys thoughts coming down the line? Who do you think is going to wrap up the division?
[00:01:56] Speaker C: The more I look at it, Ty. Yeah. The more I look at it. Last week it was tied when we were doing the show, I said Orioles would pull it out by one game. But if they have a three game lead in the division right now, I don't think. I don't think the Yankees go six and six and the Orioles go nine three. I think the Orioles cut it to one and a half, two games.
But with a three game lead this late in the season, they would need to go on a very hot streak. And Judge finally decided to hit home runs again. So it looks like the Yankees May.
[00:02:28] Speaker A: 16 game streak following his paw patrol episode. The paw patrol curse. Yeah, I mean, I think it comes down to the series at home against we play each other. I mean, if they take two out of three there, it's a one game swing. Is that could happen on any given day. So, I mean, that it's gonna come down to that series, I think. Cause if we go into that series and we're only up three games, whoever wins that series is looking good to win the division. Like, if they take two out of three. Yeah, they're a game back, but I mean, yeah, then we only got Pittsburgh and they got the twin. I don't know. It's gonna come down to that series, though, most likely. Luke, what do you, what do you think?
[00:03:08] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, I think definitely it has to come down to that. Right. Three games when they have the same record. Head to head and almost the same record, essentially. I think the Baltimore Orioles have a harder schedule, for sure. Blake Snell is pitching against them today. And you brought up that they've already lost a set to the Tigers this past weekend, and they play them again. Tigers are very interesting. They're only two and a half games back of a playoff spot.
[00:03:28] Speaker A: Right. We'll get, we'll get in the wild card. Yeah, we'll get into wild card, but, yeah, very fun.
[00:03:33] Speaker B: But I think the Orioles definitely have a harder schedule. This Yankees team reminds me a lot of the Rangers from last year, actually. Just the fact that they go on weird runs, that's what the Rangers did last year. They would play really good and then they would just lose like five games in one week, and then they picked it up in the playoffs and they won. But I think that's like this Yankees team. They have a super rotation that sometimes just decides not to pitch well.
[00:03:55] Speaker A: Sometimes they just don't show up and sometimes their lights out.
[00:03:58] Speaker B: And they have two of the three best hitters in the american league, two of the best five hitters in all of baseball on their team, and the rest of the offense decides whether or not they want to play baseball or if they want to.
[00:04:07] Speaker A: It is combined for two hits. Sum it up perfectly.
[00:04:10] Speaker C: That's what the Yankees have to worry about if it comes down to playoff baseball.
[00:04:14] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:04:15] Speaker C: You can have two of the best hitters. You can't run a two man lineup.
[00:04:18] Speaker B: Oh, no.
[00:04:21] Speaker A: Another big thing that a lot of people, I'm not going to say like casuals, but a lot of, you know, baseball fans who don't really look deeper, dive into more specific statistics and whatnot. I saw this on twitter earlier. The Yankees are the worst base running team in the MLB, and that is going to come back to bite them. They. I'm, I'm pretty sure this -16.1 means that that's like the outs that they've made on the base is like below average. So like that, like, so if the.
[00:04:51] Speaker B: Average is like, I'm pretty sure its average is zero. So it's basically saying that Yankees base runners have made 16 more outs than.
[00:04:59] Speaker A: An average MLB team.
[00:05:00] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:05:01] Speaker C: Wow.
[00:05:01] Speaker A: They are terrible on the base.
[00:05:03] Speaker C: Looking at the playoffs last year, I mean, granted, the Braves did lose that series against the Phillies, but we won the one game at home because of a base running mistake made.
[00:05:12] Speaker A: When you get down to the playoffs and these teams don't mess around, those mistakes where you're shooting yourself in the foot. Cannot happen. Cannot happen. You guys know me. I'm a guy who watches pretty much every Yankee game I've physically can watch and I've seen pretty much every frustration I possibly can. But recently the offense has been clicking and now's the right time to click once since we moved Glaber back into the leadoff spot, he's been producing at a very good rate offensively. I'm pretty sure he's batting around 310. I'd have to look up his exact specifics, but, you know, Volpe is getting in a little slump here again, but, and I'd hope he just turns it around before the playoffs, but I mean, if you have a locked in Glaber at the leadoff spot with Soto at two, judge at three, Wells has been phenomenal in the four spot. I mean, he's jumped up. He's almost the favorite to win Al rookie of the year. We'll talk to that. We'll talk about that later. I have loved everything I've seen from Wells since we put him in the fourth spot. And then we got Stanton and Jazz. Jazz has been great since the deadline. I mean, the lineup goes deep when they are all, you know, playing baseball.
If they show up and play the game of baseball, the Yankees look like the greatest team ever. They show up and they don't know how to hit, which happens a little bit too often for my liking.
[00:06:36] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:06:38] Speaker A: Then it's a different story. But Al, you should be. We're setting up for some good races down the line here. Moving on to Al Central should. Guardians should have it locked up. They're up four games on the Royals.
[00:06:50] Speaker C: I was just about to say that's only four games. I mean, Royals have had a very good second half, right?
[00:06:55] Speaker A: They have been very hot. The guardians remaining scheduled. They got four against the Twins starting with one. One's right now. I started a little bit ago I'm not sure the score of that, but that's at home in Cleveland. And then they go to St. Louis for three. Then they're home for two against Cincinnati, and then they're home at the end of the season against Houston for three.
The Royals play Detroit, San Fran, Washington and Atlanta. So Detroit and Washington, they could beat up on those teams.
[00:07:26] Speaker C: Royals end with us.
[00:07:28] Speaker A: But, yeah, three. Three games in Atlanta. It's in Atlanta. Yeah.
[00:07:31] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:07:33] Speaker A: So, I mean, what do you guys think about this? Could be a good race, too?
[00:07:38] Speaker C: I mean, I think it's gonna be a good race. I think, unfortunately, Kansas City, it does have a tougher rest of the schedule, and they're four games behind.
[00:07:45] Speaker A: Gonna fall a little bit too short, but they'll get.
[00:07:47] Speaker C: I mean, what are they leading?
[00:07:48] Speaker A: No, the wild card. Let me see here.
[00:07:51] Speaker C: They're two and a half games ahead of the last spot twins are taking. So there's two and a half games above the twins.
[00:07:56] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:07:57] Speaker C: Okay, then.
[00:07:58] Speaker A: And they play three against the Twins. I mean, there's gonna be some crazy.
[00:08:02] Speaker C: I mean, like I just said, the twins are up 30 against the Guardians.
[00:08:04] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:08:05] Speaker C: Twins get a win, guardians lose. That means the Royals get closer to taking the division, and the twins get closer to closing the gap on the royals and the wild cardinal. I think that makes sense.
[00:08:16] Speaker A: This is shaping up for a historic penn race. I mean, with the wild cards, I love it. This is like extra playoffs to me. I mean, the last few games of the season, you know, especially when the wild cards are getting tight like this, it's really exciting because it gets you that taste, that taste of the post season.
Luke, do you have any thoughts on, you think the royals got any chance of catching them there?
[00:08:44] Speaker B: No. I mean, I think that. Well, one thing that you said, which I agree with, Luke, is I remember last year when I, I was on the show for the first time, and this was like. Right, obviously, where we were in the season. And honestly, these shows are even better than the playoff shows, is finding out who's, like, the playoffs. Like, stuff like, this is so fun. Last year in the AL east and this year and this. I mean, it's four teams in this carousel. We talked about the Tigers. They're not going to win the division, probably, but it's. It's so cool that the Tigers, and they blew it up at the deadline and they might make the playoffs. Probably not. I don't think they will at all. But they have a chance. They have the same record as the Mariners right now, which is insane.
[00:09:20] Speaker A: Crazy to think.
[00:09:20] Speaker B: I think that I'm, that was like, my one prediction before we left for the summer was I said that the Royals would win the division. That was like, my one take that, like, wasn't super mainstream with, like, every other easy pick. I don't think they could do it anymore. The guardians are just, I mean, they're like, top to bottom. Like, every position is just. They have locked down, like, a solid team. I think the Royals do, too, obviously. I think they will make the playoffs in a wild card spot. I just don't think they can catch Cleveland. But if the Twins beat up on Cleveland this three, or is it three or four games?
[00:09:52] Speaker A: Right now they have the Guardians. It's a four game series.
[00:09:57] Speaker B: Okay. So, I mean, if the twins win that set and take three and the Boyd's on the three in a row, then the Twins, like, they all have, like, the same record going into the last week, which is just going to be crazy to watch. I do think the Guardians will win, though. I think the Royals will sneak in. I don't know if they'll have much success in the playoffs, but obviously we'll talk about, like, playoff and bracket predictions later. I don't know if they're experienced enough. We saw last year, like, the Rangers had a team that a lot of guys had experience and that's why they went on. We saw the Orioles get swept because they were young. I think that'll change this year. We'll talk about that later. But I think that the Royals do have a very good club full of very interesting players. I mean, Seth Lugo for like half the season was favored to win Cy young.
[00:10:38] Speaker C: I think he's tied with wins with, like, he could keep Tarek Scoogle from winning the triple crown. Cause he's got the same amount of wins as.
[00:10:45] Speaker B: Yeah, obviously I am sentimental towards Seth Lugo, but I mean, he's having his best season ever and it's actually really cool to watch. They also have, like, Michael Walker. Like, they have, like, very interesting players like, that are just having, like, their best season ever on the same.
It is cool to watch them. I do like them. The twins are like, the same as last year, pretty much. They're, they're good. I don't know, but we'll see.
[00:11:11] Speaker A: And then now we, the last one in the AL. We got the AL west and. Oh, man.
[00:11:18] Speaker C: Making the play.
[00:11:19] Speaker A: Are we kidding? Like, we.
[00:11:21] Speaker C: What a way to defend their title.
[00:11:22] Speaker A: The missing, if you would ask me a month, a month, a month and a half into this season, if the Astros were going to win the division. I'd say you are out.
[00:11:29] Speaker C: You mean when the Astros, 14 games under 500.
[00:11:32] Speaker B: Yeah, you are show. They were like ten games under. They were. They sucked.
[00:11:35] Speaker C: I'm not even gonna mention the fact that they have the same record as the Braves and the Mets. They're leading their division.
[00:11:41] Speaker A: They're up four and a half games on the Mariners.
I don't see the Mariners really.
[00:11:48] Speaker B: Catching the Mariners fall off is tragic.
[00:11:51] Speaker A: I think it needs to be studied. Honestly.
[00:11:53] Speaker B: They have. I brought this up last week, they had, as of last week, the lowest runs allowed in baseball. Teams are scoring the lowest, the fewest runs against them, and they still can't win games.
[00:12:04] Speaker A: That's. It's the problem. Their offense, I mean, and they tried to make moves at the deadline, too. It's just nothing.
[00:12:09] Speaker B: Not even working. Justin Turner, I mean, they're playing fine. Or Rosa Reyna and Turner are both playing fine, but the rest of the.
[00:12:15] Speaker A: Team is just so not, there's not good enough.
[00:12:18] Speaker B: I mean, if they, if they have, they're on a three game win streak, seven of three in their last ten. If it weren't for that, they'd be in jeopardy of finishing below 500.
[00:12:26] Speaker A: I think, honestly, sitting at 77 and 73, they still could.
[00:12:29] Speaker B: Playoffs are completely out of the picture for them. But if they went on that start that they did, and have the best rotation easily this season, and didn't even finish 500, which isn't off the table at all. That's absurd.
[00:12:42] Speaker A: It's unheard of. It's unheard of.
[00:12:44] Speaker B: It's so fun watching Mariners pitchers pitch starting pitchers and then they lose games, 20 or something.
[00:12:50] Speaker C: A four day game, watching George Kirby, Luis Castillo, who is it? It's not, I almost said Tyler Glasnow. Logan Gilbert.
[00:12:59] Speaker B: Logan Gilbert.
[00:13:00] Speaker A: Gilbert. Gilbert's a stud. I mean, Kirby. Kirby's. Kirby's from around me back home. Shelby Miller a pitcher, or is he relief?
[00:13:08] Speaker B: Kirby's one of my favorite pitchers in the league right now. I remember when the Mets played the Mariners about a month ago, the Mets scored like one run in three games.
But, I mean, so the Mariners can do something like that. And then I remember the day after the Mariners played the Tigers and let up like 14 runs or something. So I don't even know.
[00:13:26] Speaker A: The Mets looked really, really good the past month.
[00:13:28] Speaker B: I mean, yeah, the Mets have been playing really good. They blew a couple of games against the Phillies. We'll talk about that later.
[00:13:33] Speaker A: We'll get into that. So now, now let's talk about the AOL wild card. So Orioles right now, as it stands, are four and a half up on the first wild card spot. And like we said before, three games back of the AL east lead, and we got the Royals two and a half games back, or. Yeah, two and a half games back from the top spot. Or two games back from the top spot, and they're up two and a half games on the Twins for that second wild card spot, and the Tigers are two and a half back from the Twins, and so are the Mariners. And I'd say that's probably it. I don't think. I don't think the Red Sox raised blue Jays. Rangers have a shot. So I. The AL wild cards down to.
But I guess Yankees and Baltimore will.
[00:14:18] Speaker B: Right.
[00:14:19] Speaker C: Yankees in Baltimore are both locks.
[00:14:21] Speaker A: Yeah. They're gonna make. They're making the playoffs.
[00:14:23] Speaker C: So the final wild card spots are.
[00:14:25] Speaker A: Gonna be Royals, twins, Tigers or Mariners. Most likely royals twins.
[00:14:29] Speaker C: I don't think mariners. It's just the.
[00:14:31] Speaker A: I'm kind of pushing for the Tigers.
[00:14:32] Speaker C: It's just the entire.
[00:14:33] Speaker A: That'd be a cool story. It'd be a cool story to see the tigers get in there, give you that.
[00:14:38] Speaker C: But I think they win the Tarek scuba game, and then that's about it.
[00:14:41] Speaker A: Yeah.
Yeah. So, I mean, what would be a good, what would be the wild card matchup you guys would want to see?
[00:14:51] Speaker C: Ah, man. I'd want to see. So who would be.
[00:14:55] Speaker A: Bobby Witt is so excited.
[00:14:57] Speaker C: Who would be the two Al teams getting the by?
[00:14:58] Speaker A: It'd be Yankees guardians as it stands right now. Yes.
[00:15:02] Speaker B: It'll be like that. It'll be the.
[00:15:04] Speaker C: I want the Royals to take out the Astros in the first round. That's what I want.
[00:15:07] Speaker A: Oh, I would love nothing more than that.
[00:15:09] Speaker C: That's what I want.
[00:15:10] Speaker A: I would want the Royals to beat.
[00:15:11] Speaker C: The Astros in the first round. I don't care about anything else.
[00:15:14] Speaker A: You know, the Yankees are gonna, like, end up somehow playing the Astros in, like, the first round. It just, like, always happens.
[00:15:20] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:15:20] Speaker C: But they took away their plastic trash cans. It should be fine.
[00:15:22] Speaker A: Yeah.
All right, well, moving on to the NL now. NL east, seems it's wrapped up.
[00:15:29] Speaker C: The Phillies locked for the Phillies.
[00:15:30] Speaker A: Yeah, they got a nine game lead. Although the Mets have been playing some great ball. Mets and Braves both have 81 and 68 records.
[00:15:39] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:15:40] Speaker A: It's gonna come down to the wild card there.
And El Central, same thing. Brewers got it pretty much. Yeah. Ten games. There's their magic numbers. Probably, like, what, one, two?
[00:15:49] Speaker C: I mean, if the Diamondbacks go on a losing streak. Then the Mets and Braves both get in because they're plus two ahead of us.
[00:15:55] Speaker A: Yeah, we'll talk about the wild card here coming up that now west it's still possible for the Padres to swoop in. I mean they're three and a half back of the Dodgers. They have a remaining series against them that'll be in LA. So.
But remaining schedules Dodgers play Atlanta today.
[00:16:19] Speaker C: Rockies. They get Marlins, Rockies and then Padres and then Rockies again.
[00:16:23] Speaker A: Yeah. Marlin Marlins, Rockies. Padres, Rockies and they're up one nothing. And the Padres have Houston White Sox, the Dodgers and then the Diamondbacks. Who that is gonna probably that last series might.
[00:16:37] Speaker C: Yeah, Padres have some wild card implications that last series.
[00:16:41] Speaker A: Arizona Padres. Yeah. Cuz if you look at the NL wild card the Padres are three and a half up and the Diamondbacks are two up.
[00:16:48] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:16:48] Speaker A: So teams like the Mets and the Braves are hoping they beat up on each other and you guys, I need.
[00:16:53] Speaker C: The Padres to sweep them.
[00:16:54] Speaker B: That's why I'm hate the Mets.
[00:16:55] Speaker C: But I love from both to get.
[00:16:56] Speaker B: In to I think that it's basically like whoever wins that first game needs to just win the next two. But I think when it comes down to that being the last series, I think the Padres will be way better at that point in terms of record that the chance for both teams make the playoffs will be the Diamondbacks losing. I think that is crazy thing about the Dodgers, how easy their schedule is coming up. Because I looked at the Padres, I was like well maybe.
[00:17:19] Speaker A: And then you go and look at the Dodgers and it's like oh, Marlins, Rockies and Colorado. A second Padres and then oh, you go and finish with another three in Colorado.
[00:17:29] Speaker C: Finish with the Rockies in Colorado.
[00:17:31] Speaker B: I mean they only, they have to, it's twelve games to 100 and I think they have like 13 games left total. But honestly, like if they go on a huge tear winner.
[00:17:41] Speaker A: I don't think, I don't think anyone's, it's crazy in 190 with games they're not, they died. I don't think they, yeah, I mean.
[00:17:51] Speaker B: Still that's a lot of, that's a.
[00:17:52] Speaker A: Lot of wins aren't going to get it. Orioles are not going to get it. I mean I'm looking at these future.
[00:17:58] Speaker C: Schedules for Braves, Mets because.
[00:18:00] Speaker A: Yeah, no, I mean the Phillies have the most wins in baseball.
[00:18:02] Speaker B: The Mets schedule, they play the Phillies again and the Braves and the brewers and they're playing the nationals right now and losing, which sucks.
[00:18:09] Speaker C: Yeah, we've got, we've got six.
Yeah, we've got five. No, six straight road games. Three Reds, three Marlins. Marlins should be fine. Reds gave us a little trouble, but I think we should be okay.
[00:18:20] Speaker B: Right then.
[00:18:21] Speaker C: We've got a six game home stand to finish the season against three against the Mets, three against the Royals. And like you said, the Mets still have Phillies and. Yeah, who else did you say?
[00:18:32] Speaker B: The Phillies, the Braves, and the brewers and the nationals for the next couple days.
[00:18:37] Speaker C: But yeah, you all have to go.
[00:18:39] Speaker B: Streak beating up on the Dodgers, which I am not too yesterday.
[00:18:43] Speaker C: Except yesterday in the 9th. Ryzella Iglesias has given up four earned runs since it was like, since April something, and then he gave up five in the top of the 9th.
[00:18:54] Speaker B: This is crazy to me. I keep seeing, like, I look at the highlights and videos and stuff. This is like the second day in a row I've seen a video, like, about a Gio Urschel, a defensive highlight. I did not even know he was on the Braves until Whit Merrifield and.
[00:19:10] Speaker C: Horace.
[00:19:12] Speaker A: Right when they picked up her shell, right when they needed everybody, and they went and just got everybody available.
That's when all those guys started to click. Geo has been playing outstanding, right?
[00:19:21] Speaker C: Whit Merrifield.
[00:19:23] Speaker A: Five, three hit games with Merrifield, who was on the Phillies and never really got into, like, a starting role. He was kind of just like a two to three day a week.
[00:19:32] Speaker B: Yeah, he wouldn't be starting if it weren't for so many injuries anyway.
[00:19:35] Speaker A: But now he's given his opportunity. He's taking the most of it. You got to respect that. And not Tyler. Congratulations, everyone. Not fun.
[00:19:42] Speaker C: It's not. Congratulations, everyone. Oh, wow. They scored on a wildenhouse.
[00:19:46] Speaker B: Yeah, I saw that, too. The Dodgers are winning right now.
[00:19:48] Speaker C: Oh, my gosh, man.
[00:19:50] Speaker A: Plenty of game.
[00:19:52] Speaker C: One player batting over 300, and then everyone else is under 250. We had four people hit 40 or more home runs last season. I'm gonna get mad.
[00:20:00] Speaker B: That sounds like the Yankees.
[00:20:03] Speaker A: Sounds all too familiar.
[00:20:04] Speaker C: Leading their division.
We could have won it six straight years.
[00:20:09] Speaker A: Aaron Judge is out of his mind, by the way. I mean, I thought for a while he was gonna break his record and.
[00:20:15] Speaker B: And then he was not.
[00:20:16] Speaker A: He went on paw patrol.
Now he's only hit like, 58 homer.
No, but in all seriousness, he might be the greatest right handed hitter ever.
[00:20:27] Speaker C: Nope.
[00:20:28] Speaker B: Wait. Speaking of right handed hitters, guys, did you see that? Heliotropos hit the first opposite.
[00:20:34] Speaker A: Finally, if arson judge went to the Giants, he probably would have been.
[00:20:37] Speaker B: He would have five of them.
[00:20:41] Speaker C: Be.
[00:20:41] Speaker B: Bouncing off the wall, getting double days ago. Yes.
[00:20:45] Speaker A: Awesome. So cool. So cool.
[00:20:47] Speaker B: I mean, side note.
[00:20:48] Speaker A: Yeah, no, I've been, I've been like, that's like something I've like, paid attention to ever since I like, found out that that was a stat, that there never had been one. And, like, I've always been like openly just like waiting to hear it now, you know?
[00:20:58] Speaker C: And you know what? I'm happy about the guy who got the ball, McCovey Cove. Dave.
[00:21:02] Speaker A: Oh, is that the ball?
[00:21:04] Speaker C: McCoby Cove? It's going.
[00:21:06] Speaker B: Which is crazy. I don't know if they ended up winning, though.
[00:21:08] Speaker C: Well, that doesn't matter.
[00:21:11] Speaker A: All right, well, we'll wrap up here, head to the first break, and we'll be back in just a few minutes here on 90.7, the Capstone, WVUA FM, Tuscaloosa.
And welcome back to students section. MLB let's pick up right where we left off. We're going to talk about some awards, the betting favorites down the line for awards, and we'll talk about our predictions from the beginning of the year and see how they panned out.
Start with the AL rookie of the year. As it stands right now, per Fanduel, Luis Heel is the favorite at plus 140. Austin Wells, another Yankee, at plus 155. And then Colton Kauser at plus 210. Those are the top three.
I hope one of the top two wins it. Heel's been phenomenal. I was a little worried, honestly. Like throughout the season coming off his injury, he was, he's seeing nowhere near the amount of innings that he saw this year. So I kept getting a little worried that we were going to overwork him. But he did get hurt for a little bit. But he's back now and he's looking good again. Wells, as I mentioned before, has looked great since being in the fourth spot. So, I mean, hopefully one of those two wins it. But, you know, Colton Kauser has been great for Baltimore. The Yankees have seen them a lot and I've tuned into a lot of Orioles games to root against them. And Colton Kauser, he is a, he's going to be a good player for a long time. That whole roster is going to be. And just props to the organization again for making a great pick in the draft. I mean, I've never seen anybody do it like that. They have made every pick. Like they have made the correct pick.
[00:23:09] Speaker C: The Orioles have a great chance of being a dynasty. Like legitimately.
[00:23:13] Speaker A: It scares everything out of me. Like they are going to be a pain. And you know what, for the next ten, 1112 years and I don't have.
[00:23:21] Speaker C: To worry about them till the end.
[00:23:23] Speaker A: Yeah, true.
[00:23:24] Speaker C: I have to make it there first.
[00:23:25] Speaker B: But you'll play three games against them every year. Don't worry.
[00:23:28] Speaker A: Yeah, hopefully.
And then. All right, going over to the no rookie of the year Jackson Merrill is a heavy favorite at -750 and Paul skieens at plus 400.
[00:23:38] Speaker C: I just don't see how Skienes doesn't.
[00:23:40] Speaker A: Get it at plus 400, though. Like, clearly they think Merrill's gonna, Merrill is playing.
[00:23:45] Speaker B: He plays.
[00:23:46] Speaker C: He's playing amazing.
[00:23:47] Speaker A: But Paul Skeens, he deserves the everything. But, I mean, you watch Paul Skeen's pitch, that dude is, he's gonna get Cy Young votes.
[00:23:54] Speaker C: Why shouldn't he get.
[00:23:55] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, you look at the Cy Young, he's, where is it?
[00:23:59] Speaker B: He's probably still second or. No, maybe Wheeler second.
[00:24:03] Speaker A: He's third.
[00:24:04] Speaker B: Okay, it's set. Wheeler sale.
[00:24:06] Speaker A: We'll come to that in a little bit.
So, yeah, I mean, Merrill, it looks at least odds makers think Merrill's got it locked up. I think Skeens deserves it. Personally, I've seen the both of them. Pitch statistics are one thing, dominance is another. I think Skenes is a way, like ski is the most dominant pitcher in the MLB.
[00:24:24] Speaker C: I'll put it this way.
[00:24:25] Speaker A: No, it's not a crazy take.
[00:24:27] Speaker C: It is.
[00:24:28] Speaker A: It's not.
[00:24:28] Speaker C: Yes, it is.
[00:24:29] Speaker A: It's, nothing goes up there. And he just shuts them. Anybody down?
[00:24:33] Speaker B: Jeff McNeil has a homer off of him, though.
[00:24:35] Speaker A: Jeff McNeil. I did not know that Chris Sale.
[00:24:38] Speaker C: Hadn'T given up a lefty home run.
[00:24:40] Speaker A: All year until tonight.
[00:24:42] Speaker B: Paul schemes did tomorrow or whenever he pitches next. I mean, I think that's something that frustrates me so much. Well, first of all, I do want to say Luis heel should win a over key of the year. But I'm looking at his baseball reference like, this is what I mean about the Yankees. So if you go by month by month, his era. So in April, March, 5 starts, four era, not bad. And then in the month of May, he started six games with a 0.7 era. I mean, that's insane. But then five starts in June, 645 era. I mean, so he's been super streaky. He's had some really, really good start.
[00:25:13] Speaker A: That entire month where his era, if you look at the rest of the Yankee starters, I'm pretty sure that month we just, they were also, they saw we just imploded.
[00:25:21] Speaker B: So I think that it's, I think he'll win it. Austin Wells is also very good, but I think heel is just like better. I mean, it's different positions. It's hard to compare. But I think he'll is better at his position than Austin Wells is. But the National League rookie of the year race is something that bothers me so much because I remember when the odds started changing. Like I saw it on Instagram for the first time when Merrill became minus odds to win it and I was texting my brother, I was like why is this happening?
[00:25:47] Speaker A: There was one point schemes was like minus like 5000.
[00:25:49] Speaker B: I know, like at the all star when, when Paul was named all star.
[00:25:52] Speaker A: Starter, the odds were it was like you could you put a $100 you're winning like forty cents.
[00:25:58] Speaker B: And Jackson Merrill is having a crazy year too because I mean it made me genuinely, I had to look at his stats because I didn't, I didn't.
[00:26:04] Speaker A: Seen his stats very under the radar.
[00:26:06] Speaker B: Right?
And so is Brent Rooker.
[00:26:08] Speaker C: He's about to hit 40 home.
[00:26:09] Speaker B: Brent, we were talking about that last week. That guy's obese too. Yeah, but I think like he has having a very good season. But I mean skiing's. I mean he's just having. He literally could win this. I young if Chris Sale wasn't just like a beast. Almost a sub two era for skiing's and he missed like he was, he didn't, they didn't call him up to the majors. He missed like five, at least five starts is what he missed. And he already has ten wins, five wins above replacement. A 210 era.
[00:26:37] Speaker A: There's no for when he got called up is just like he got caught.
[00:26:41] Speaker B: Up in like May. There's no way.
[00:26:45] Speaker C: Again, by the way, he started with a 210 era. Today he's now he's about to be through three perfect and it'll drop his era I think down to like two.
[00:26:52] Speaker B: The amount of starts he's gotten through that have had no hitter watch attached to them. Because he just gets through five no hit innings like it's nothing. And he might not win the award. And like betters think that he is that unlikely to win the award just.
[00:27:05] Speaker A: Shocks win the award or not. His just his story is unbelievable. Like the speed at which he flew through the minor leagues is just like you don't see that type of signatures.
[00:27:19] Speaker C: They have to develop. They have to develop speed, they have.
[00:27:21] Speaker A: To develop every tricks.
[00:27:23] Speaker C: Like skiing's came into the minor eight. Every one years old at six six throw in 100 plus on accident like that should be fine.
[00:27:34] Speaker A: It's ridiculous. This stuff doesn't happen. He is a unicorn, that guy. And I think he deserves. I think he deserves it over Merrill. Merrill's phenomenal. I'm not taking anything away from him. But I just, again, like I said before, there's a difference between statistics and dominance. And Paul schemes, he's dominant schemes.
[00:27:54] Speaker B: It's just crazy. I think that is one thing that's interesting. I think we are going to see that a lot more actually is older players being drafted and called up more. I mean, because skiing's was one of the best, the best pitcher in college baseball. So there wasn't really a need to keep him in the minor leagues. It was, we were. I remember when we found out that he wasn't on the opening day roster and that was surprising enough. We were surprised he was even in the minor leagues at all. It's because he was in college for that long. He was so good. I think more teams will actually, because of how good Skenes is, will like lean towards drafting college guys and we'll see less minor league like guys spending as long in the minor leagues. But I mean, Paul Skienes is also nothing. The average player, he has 150 strikeouts in 20 starts. I mean, I just don't understand how he will not win. Believable. I don't understand. Yeah, if he doesn't win it, I will be so frustrated.
[00:28:41] Speaker A: I'm sure we'll, whenever the playoffs we'll have our reactions. Yeah, once they come out, for sure.
[00:28:46] Speaker B: But Jackson, Merrill, like I said, like I don't want to say it because he was almost betting 300 when I looked like he was batting like 290. I mean he's hitting homers and he's playing great defense too, but. And that's where it comes into play. It's so hard to compare position players and pitchers. That's why pitchers don't win MVP. But is rookie of the year the same caliber award as MVP? I think pitchers should be more frequent to win rookie of the year. So I think.
[00:29:12] Speaker C: Should they make a different award?
[00:29:13] Speaker A: Like how there's rookie sigh young no. Rookie pitcher of the year.
[00:29:19] Speaker B: No.
[00:29:19] Speaker C: Got to call it something like the Ichiro like where he want no, cuz he won MVP.
[00:29:23] Speaker A: I called the scheme the schemes award.
[00:29:29] Speaker C: Man, I don't know.
[00:29:30] Speaker B: I just don't want to make too many awards.
[00:29:32] Speaker A: That's fair.
[00:29:33] Speaker C: Why rookie picture of the year.
[00:29:34] Speaker B: True, but cuz the thing is, it's like it's not always like that award would only be necessary for seasons like this where there are two absolute studs that are different positions and both of them should win the word they could win it co they were to.
[00:29:48] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:29:49] Speaker B: Can they do it like that?
[00:29:50] Speaker A: Like if they were to do a rookie pitcher of the year, but just across both leagues.
[00:29:55] Speaker B: Right.
[00:29:56] Speaker A: As opposed to doing one for each league.
[00:29:58] Speaker B: Oh, that could be like rookie of the year. Rookie of the year. But it's the fold.
[00:30:03] Speaker A: Like Al NL. It's not just one.
[00:30:05] Speaker B: I feel like that would actually be pretty.
[00:30:06] Speaker A: That could work. That could be a good concept.
[00:30:08] Speaker C: Wait. I mean, wait, Al Rookie of the year? No, no, but no.
[00:30:12] Speaker B: Just like base, MLB rookie position player and MLB pitcher. So it's still two awards, but it's inner league.
[00:30:20] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly.
[00:30:21] Speaker C: I wanted to ask about shoto emanaga.
[00:30:24] Speaker A: He's at plus 20,000.
[00:30:26] Speaker C: He's 13 and three with a three array.
[00:30:30] Speaker A: Jackson Cheerios in third with 37 plays at plus 3700.
[00:30:34] Speaker B: This is just one of the best rookie of the year races ever.
Yeah, exactly.
[00:30:38] Speaker A: Shoto being at plus 20,000 is just like.
[00:30:42] Speaker B: And Yamamoto starts as skiing as well? Oh, no, he has less actually, because he was injured.
[00:30:48] Speaker C: Yeah, he was hurt, but.
[00:30:49] Speaker B: So he's not going to win it just because of when he was hurt. But he also has a two seven era. But only 15 starts is definitely not enough. He doesn't even have 100 strikeouts. But there's so many good rookies in the actual league. But it's like you can't have two awards for both leagues when, like, then you're going to have like a rookie pitcher with like a four era winning it just because there's no rookies pitching. And so it. Yeah, but I think this is one of the craziest races we've seen in forever. And we'll see just because of how good these guys are, not just as rookies, but I love it.
[00:31:17] Speaker A: I love the youth in the league that's like, you don't see young guys like this, like take off as quick as they're taking off and like being consistent from their rookie year on. Like the jump to Gunnar Henderson made this year. That's not being talked now.
[00:31:32] Speaker C: The argument that could be made is Yamamoto has four years of professional baseball underway. Completely off topic. Braves just got a lead off triple with no outs. If we don't score, I'm walking out. I promise.
[00:31:45] Speaker A: Oh, man. But like, I want to talk about Gunner Henderson for a second. So let's, let's move over to the American League MVP that's locked up, obviously.
[00:31:55] Speaker B: Judge the four big MVP's.
[00:31:57] Speaker A: I'm not locked up. I'm not gonna say I called it or anything. I don't deserve props. He was probably the favorite before the year.
[00:32:04] Speaker C: Won it last year if he had the full season.
[00:32:06] Speaker A: Yeah, true.
[00:32:07] Speaker B: I feel like this is also -3000 yeah.
[00:32:10] Speaker A: Bobby Witt for the season that he's.
[00:32:12] Speaker B: Having somehow at plus 1100 replacement 330 average for Bobby Witt and he's not going to receive a single.
[00:32:20] Speaker A: Judge can still win the size.
[00:32:22] Speaker C: The Triple Crown judge is not going to win it unanimously. I'm telling you he's not.
[00:32:26] Speaker B: I think so.
[00:32:27] Speaker C: He's having a crate. If he, if he didn't get on that slump and he hit 60 home runs, it's unanimous because he's not going to reach.
[00:32:33] Speaker B: Actually that's fair.
[00:32:34] Speaker C: Judge is not going to win it unanimously.
[00:32:37] Speaker B: That's fair. But I think he will.
[00:32:39] Speaker A: Do you know how many RBI's judge had? Do you know what Judge leads the MLB in everything except average. He's nine points behind which with twelve games left, Judge goes three for four. The next judge goes gets two hits.
He goes two for four, three for four, whatever. And Whit goes over his next seven.
[00:33:01] Speaker C: Wit's gonna be the only player in the AL to reach 200 hits. Judge isn't going to reach 180. Okay, well he needs eleven in twelve games. Okay, never mind. He's not gonna reach 200. Judging's 31 hits in twelve games.
[00:33:11] Speaker B: My question is for you, Tyler, is that if Aaron Judge is not gonna win it unanimously because Bobby Witt is gonna take some first place votes, why can't Francisco Lindor take first place votes away from Otani?
[00:33:23] Speaker C: Because Lindor is not having as good of a season when it comes to batting average.
[00:33:27] Speaker B: I guess that is true. I mean, like I'm not. Lindor is definitely having a worse season than Bobby Witt junior. And I do think Bobby Witt junior. Listen, if judge wasn't alive, Bobby Witt would win it unanimously because he's having one of the craziest seasons ever. But I think that's what, what are.
[00:33:45] Speaker A: You trying to do to my boy?
[00:33:47] Speaker B: No, I just think, I don't even want to say like because I would say like if Aaron Judge was like a human instead of like a super. Like a baseball alien.
[00:33:56] Speaker A: Yeah, it's just say the goat.
[00:33:57] Speaker B: But like I think that Lindor is also having a really good season. We were gonna move to National League soon anyway because I mean American League gunner Henderson's having a phenomenal year too. It's so crazy.
[00:34:07] Speaker A: So the odds are looking like judges -3000 right. So that's it's wrapped up judges winning it. Bobby Witt's at plus 1100. Soto and Henderson are both at plus 541.
[00:34:19] Speaker C: Tanks.
[00:34:20] Speaker B: Jose Ramirez finished fifth or 6th. Yeah.
[00:34:22] Speaker A: Jose Ramirez has plus 10,000, Jordan plus 15,000 and Devers plus 15,000. That's all.
[00:34:28] Speaker B: I don't even know why they even show odds like that. Like, how is Devers gonna win the MVP over judge? Like, why are sports books even off?
[00:34:35] Speaker C: Devers would have crazy 20 home runs.
[00:34:37] Speaker A: In the last twelve days.
Devers would have to hit home run every single at bat for the rest of the.
[00:34:43] Speaker C: Keep pitching every day.
[00:34:45] Speaker A: All right, all right, all right.
[00:34:47] Speaker B: I mean, the Devers off Cole, that is crazy.
[00:34:51] Speaker A: I'm sorry.
[00:34:52] Speaker B: I think it's just crazy. I've heard four of, like, the craziest individual seasons in a long time. In the same league in the same year.
[00:35:01] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:35:01] Speaker B: Gunnar Henderson, Soto, 95 40 homers. These are four incredible 39 homers.
[00:35:09] Speaker A: He's about to hit 40. I mean, any other given year, any of these guys behind judge are winning mvp.
[00:35:14] Speaker B: I just think it's hilarious because Soto's not even the best player on his team and he's almost. And he's amazing.
[00:35:19] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean.
[00:35:20] Speaker C: I mean, I'll ask you this. You put oh Tani season this year versus Acuna season last year. Acuna with more stolen bases, better average, but oh Tani with more home would.
[00:35:28] Speaker A: Be what, 20 less home. How many, how many did Kunya finish with last year? 30 41 yet 41 47.
[00:35:35] Speaker C: He went 41 73.
[00:35:36] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:35:37] Speaker C: At the lead off.
[00:35:39] Speaker B: Yeah, but 50 50, though.
[00:35:41] Speaker C: Yes. I think he probably. Yeah, I mean. Oh, Tommy doesn't bat lead off, so of course he's gonna have.
[00:35:45] Speaker A: Is he gonna get the 50 50?
[00:35:47] Speaker C: He needs three home runs, two stolen bases in twelve games. Twelve games. That's.
[00:35:53] Speaker A: She should fine.
[00:35:53] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, he's been. He's been on pace. Like, he's been pretty consistent. Like, the whole judge thing was that. Yeah, we talked about it. The paw patrol thing is hilarious.
[00:36:00] Speaker A: It's funny.
[00:36:01] Speaker B: But, I mean. I mean, two weeks without a homer is. Sucks. I mean, I feel bad. Like, I wanted him to break the record, so I'm, like, sad about it, but Ohtani has just been, like, peak consistent. Like, he hasn't been slumping. He's just been consistently good. So I think he will hit 50 50. I think that Lindor is probably second at odds.
[00:36:17] Speaker A: I don't know if you have Otani's minus 2500, Lindor's plus 900, Ozuna's plus 7500. Bryce Harper. Big jump from two to three.
[00:36:27] Speaker B: Yeah. Right.
[00:36:28] Speaker A: Harper at plus 10,000. Kattelle Marte at plus 10,000. And then Ellie de la Cruz at plus 20,000.
[00:36:33] Speaker C: Ozuna hadn't had an RBI in the last ten days. He's been sitting at 98. He's been sitting at 98. What's today, September 16? He's been sitting at 98 RBI since, I think, the 7th.
[00:36:44] Speaker A: I mean, to run home ran coming tonight, right?
[00:36:47] Speaker B: True. Lindor just got a yamamoto.
[00:36:50] Speaker C: Moving on.
[00:36:51] Speaker A: Moving on to the. The Cy Youngs American League wrapped up Tariq scuba will. He's at plus. He's at. -5000 yikes.
Second place is a reliever, Emmanuel class.
It's class A. He's at plus 2500. Seth Lugo at plus 4000.
[00:37:11] Speaker B: Burns.
[00:37:11] Speaker A: Oh, well, Burns is at plus 6000. He's in last. And then Cole, how do you. Reagan rags. Reagan's right. He's at plus 5000.
[00:37:22] Speaker B: What happened at Burns? Did he get hurt?
[00:37:23] Speaker A: He's a plus 6000. I think he was.
[00:37:26] Speaker C: He was dead.
[00:37:26] Speaker A: He was.
[00:37:27] Speaker B: He missed a couple starts.
[00:37:28] Speaker A: Yeah, he was banged up for a little bit. I remember him missing seven.
[00:37:33] Speaker C: Shut up.
[00:37:34] Speaker A: That one. I mean, there's not really much to talk about. Scuba's been dominant all year.
[00:37:39] Speaker B: That would be really cool, though. If class a can finish second. That'd be awesome.
[00:37:42] Speaker A: No? Yeah. I mean, I think more relievers deserve votes for.
[00:37:46] Speaker B: So he's gonna win the reliever of the year unanimously. But I think that it should be more of a question. We talked about it last week. If Scuba wasn't going to win the Triple Crown, then I would actually try to make a case for class I to win it. But scuba is just too good, so.
[00:37:58] Speaker A: And then moving on to the NL. Tyler, I want to start off by giving you credit because you did call this before the year, preseason. I did not know. I don't know if you were shooting for this season.
[00:38:07] Speaker B: I'm such a hater.
[00:38:08] Speaker A: I don't know if you were shooting for the stars as a Braves fan or you genuinely thought that Chris Sal could do it, but I will give you your props. Chris Sale is sitting at minus 2500 to win the National League. Cy Young with Wheeler in second at plus 1100. Paul Skeens in third at plus 3000, Logan Webb in fourth at plus 20,000, and Dylan Cease also at plus 20,000.
[00:38:32] Speaker C: I'm telling you, man, I told you at the beginning of the season, I said if we can get a full season out of Chris Sale, I'll be happy.
[00:38:38] Speaker A: I not only did you get a.
[00:38:40] Speaker C: Full season, I also said if we can get 2017 or 2018, Chris Sale I would also be happy.
[00:38:45] Speaker B: 2317 and three record.
[00:38:49] Speaker C: Yeah. Oh, are you a hater still?
[00:38:51] Speaker B: Yeah, no, I'm a hater.
[00:38:53] Speaker A: He deserves his flowers.
[00:38:54] Speaker B: Look at the record. I haven't looked at the record.
[00:38:56] Speaker A: I'm thrilled that he's not a Red Sox anymore and he's not just doing.
[00:39:00] Speaker C: This on the Red Sox right now, 219 strikeouts. His last, listen to this. His last five starts, he has given up four earned runs, has struck out. What's that math looking like? 19 plus 13. He struck out 32 people in his last five starts and he's gone. 76766.
[00:39:25] Speaker B: Dude, I mean, this season is just.
[00:39:28] Speaker A: I mean, I'm exactly what you want.
[00:39:30] Speaker B: I'm praying start in next week.
[00:39:34] Speaker A: Do you, do you know how many quality starts he has on the year?
[00:39:37] Speaker B: He probably all of them.
[00:39:38] Speaker C: No, we're every single start. Wheeler has 23. Chris sale, he has 17 wins. He has 17 quality starts. So every time losses he's had have been crap.
[00:39:50] Speaker A: Okay, so the three games he lost, were they like blow ups? Were they like.
[00:39:54] Speaker C: No, no, no. So there was no, it wasn't blow ups. Because if it was blow ups, as era would show it.
[00:39:59] Speaker A: Right?
[00:40:00] Speaker C: I know at the beginning of the season because I didn't, I didn't see his other two losses. I mean, there was one game where I think it was against the Reds. He went, he went seven innings and struck out.
[00:40:10] Speaker A: I remember that. And lost like one nothing, right?
[00:40:13] Speaker C: Yeah, we lost.
[00:40:14] Speaker A: There was one game. Yeah, that's the one that I was thinking of. He had like a phenomenal, like seven or seven or eight innings pitched, like ten ks, one earned run. Oh, that's one nothing. Yeah. And I'm like that. You gotta be, I don't even know what feeling you gotta feel after that. Just, I'd feel betrayed for my offense.
[00:40:33] Speaker B: If they average grommets experience.
[00:40:35] Speaker C: Yes, this is what I'm seeing. So he did.
[00:40:39] Speaker B: Yeah, I was about to say that's a full sign on pretty well for.
[00:40:42] Speaker A: Like his first pitch was like a hundred or 99.7.
[00:40:46] Speaker B: The velo definitely dropped. But I mean, thank God, because if he was trying to throw 103, he was heading right back to the, all I want to see is for him to continue pitching. So next start, hopefully he'll pitch more than three innings.
[00:40:59] Speaker C: I'm looking at, I'm looking at Chris sales losses. These are his three losses against Milwaukee in September. He went four and two thirds, struck out ten in four and two thirds, and gave up two runs and got the loss. He took a loss against the Mets in July where he went seven and a third, gave up two earned runs and struck out nine and got the loss for it. And then, oh, wait, he may have not. Oh, these are games where he just started and got. Yeah. And then the Phillies, in the first week of the season, he went five and a third, gave up two earned runs and took the loss for it.
[00:41:34] Speaker B: Dang.
[00:41:35] Speaker C: So like his losses, he hasn't allowed more than three earned, in fact.
[00:41:40] Speaker A: So he's just been dominant. Yeah, no, I mean dominant, dominant.
[00:41:44] Speaker C: He did give up five earned runs against the Marlins. Oh, in April.
[00:41:48] Speaker B: In April, everyone has their off day. True.
[00:41:50] Speaker A: Everyone has their off.
[00:41:51] Speaker B: That's the one thing is, though, that's interesting. Is Zach Wheeler ever gonna get to win a Cy young? Because he's gonna finish second again. Sad. He's so good.
[00:42:01] Speaker A: He's really good.
[00:42:01] Speaker B: And I don't know if he'll win a Cy young. He's finished second. What'll this be like his third time?
[00:42:06] Speaker A: Remember Ranger Suarez started the year like eleven and.
[00:42:09] Speaker B: Oh yeah, that too.
[00:42:11] Speaker A: That was crazy. Where did that come from?
[00:42:14] Speaker C: I remember when Clay Holmes was good.
[00:42:19] Speaker A: Bad. Don't even get me started. He is horrible.
No, that's fair. That is such a hater. Because it was after like the first like nine games is even though like the next five still, he got saves and still didn't give up any runs. Like the first like 14 outings of the year, he didn't give up a single run. But every time you go on the mound, you'd have a damn heart attack. He'd get, he'd put guys on and pitch all over and it's like up, here we go again. He leads the league and blown saves. I mean, this is the first time a Yankee has had this many saves since like 88.
[00:42:58] Speaker B: That's crazy.
[00:43:00] Speaker C: I want to give some props real quick to Ryzel Iglesias, who is the best right handed reliever in the National League, 187 era and a 72 whip. Dang.
[00:43:10] Speaker B: No. Glaciers has been a stone.
[00:43:12] Speaker C: Listen to he gave up five earned runs yesterday and his era is still under one nine. That's the season he's had.
[00:43:21] Speaker A: He deserves more credit. All right, we're going to head to our next break here and come back and we're going to talk about how the post season is looking as of today as well as our predictions going forward. So we will be right back here on 90.7 the Capstone, WVUA FM, Tuscaloosa.
Alright, welcome back to student section MLB here for our final segment of the day. We are going to talk about how it currently stands as the postseason picture with just about twelve games left for each team on the AL side.
Yankees get the one, the Guardians get the two, Houston gets the three, and Baltimore gets the four, Kansas City gets the five, and the twins get the six. So that would mean the twins and the Orioles would face off in round one of the wild card to then advance and play against the Yankees. Or maybe they'd go up.
[00:44:35] Speaker C: No, it'd be, it'd be twins, Astros.
[00:44:36] Speaker A: Yeah. Okay.
[00:44:37] Speaker C: And then Royals.
[00:44:39] Speaker A: Right?
Yeah, they should. I can't say that they format it so weird. I don't, it's because it's, it's, as you look at the graphic, it, you would think that the winner of this game would come here to play the.
[00:44:54] Speaker B: Yankees, but is that not how it is?
[00:44:55] Speaker A: No. Because if. Oh, it, it depends if the Astros win. No.
[00:45:01] Speaker B: Well, that's the thing, though, isn't it like that? I was gonna say, isn't it weird an MLB where the bracket is just predetermined outside of seeds? Because in the NFL it's different than the other, adjusted every week depending on who wins. But in baseball, it would be set because then you would have like, the three seed play or the two seed would get to play the six seed. Yes. The six seed wouldn't move to play the wall. Right? Yeah.
[00:45:23] Speaker A: And then as you look at it on the NL side, we have the Phillies at the one, the Dodgers have the two, the brewers get the three, Padres, the four, diamondbacks, the five, and then the Mets sneak in and get the six. As it stands today, rip tide. So the Phillies obviously get a buy. Dodgers get a buy. And then the Padres and the diamondbacks would face off, and the Mets and the brewers would face off. So the Braves get an early departure for their vacation.
[00:45:52] Speaker C: We're losing, by the way, three nothing to the Dodgers. So it's not looking, how do you.
[00:45:57] Speaker A: Guys think it stays the same? Do you guys, who would you think doesn't make it? Who do you guys think makes it?
[00:46:04] Speaker B: Yeah, I was going to say, like, before even talking about, like, who would win this bracket? Just if this bracket even makes sense, I actually do think this bracket holds entirely. At least, I would like to say, I think the Met schedule remaining is super difficult, but at least the teams.
[00:46:18] Speaker A: In it, I think they stay. Whether or not the seating stays the same, that could fluctuate, obviously, with the wild cards and how tight everything is. And even like with the division, like, the Yankees and Orioles could flip flop. Who knows?
[00:46:30] Speaker B: Yeah. That too. So the Yankees will win the division. It is interesting that the Guardians are actually only one game back of the Yankees. So the Yankees might not even get the one seed right having that good of a season. But I do think that the game, I think the American League bracket stays exactly the same in terms of like even seeds and those teams, as much as we were talking about how fun it would be for the Tigers to make it and their remaining schedule isn't too hard, I just don't think they can do it. But in the National League, I would like to think it stays the same. Obviously, like we talked about. I would. I mean, I don't like the Braves, but for the sake of this show and the banter between me and Tyler, I think it'd be funny for both teams to make it and play each.
[00:47:08] Speaker A: Other first and play each other.
[00:47:09] Speaker B: Yeah, but that would be super difficult. That would mean the Padres and diamondbacks would have to like. Yeah.
[00:47:14] Speaker A: Yeah. Not likely.
[00:47:16] Speaker C: Yeah. I have a guaranteed prediction whenever you're done.
[00:47:20] Speaker B: Oh yeah, go ahead, Tyler.
[00:47:24] Speaker C: Guardians one seed, Yankees two seed, Astros three seed, Orioles four seed, Royals five seed, twin six seed.
I think Orioles beat Royals face Guardians. I think Guardians beat Orioles. I think.
I think Astros beat twins. I think Yankees beat Astros. I think Yankees Guardians face. Think Yankees make the World Series in El side. I think the diamondbacks crumble. I think the diamondbacks crumble.
[00:47:56] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:47:57] Speaker A: I think the dimebags one seed.
[00:47:59] Speaker C: So Phillies one seed, Dodgers two seed seed.
[00:48:02] Speaker A: Give me the rematch from, oh, nine brewers three seed. Maybe give me the rematch.
[00:48:06] Speaker C: It's not.
[00:48:08] Speaker A: Well, I don't care if you're telling me that I'm going to be in the World Series and I'll take it. I don't want to play the silly four seed Braves.
[00:48:17] Speaker C: I mean not. Yeah, Padre's four seed Braves five seed met six seed.
I think Metzen brewers face. I think actually Mets take that but then lose to the Dodgers. I think Braves take over Padres. And I think we finally, since the Phillies have to have a buy, the Phillies have to have a bias. So they're going to have the same thing that we've had the last two years. I think we somehow pull it out in the Phillies in seven games. I think we face the Dodgers and in.
[00:48:45] Speaker A: Wait, you think you guys are making it and then beating the Phillies?
[00:48:49] Speaker C: I think we make it. Beat Padres in three games, beat Phillies in seven and then loose.
[00:48:53] Speaker B: Wait, but that would be the division series. That only be five.
[00:48:56] Speaker C: Would be five.
[00:48:57] Speaker B: Yeah, cuz that's the division series. Oh, yeah.
[00:48:59] Speaker C: Then we beat him in five.
[00:49:00] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh, bro.
[00:49:02] Speaker C: Then we lose to the Dodgers in six. Think it's Dodgers. Yankees.
[00:49:06] Speaker B: The pure chalkboard bracket. Except for the Braves sprinkle. Now, honestly, I can see that happening.
[00:49:13] Speaker A: Yankees and the Astros meet up in the DS again. I don't, dude, my heart can't handle that.
[00:49:18] Speaker C: I mean, fine, then twins beat a.
[00:49:24] Speaker A: I'm not trying to make changes to your bracket or anything.
[00:49:26] Speaker C: We don't want to say anything.
[00:49:27] Speaker A: I just list. It would be, it would be typical for the Yankees and the Astros to meet up in the DS.
[00:49:32] Speaker B: I mean, I think that they've owned.
[00:49:34] Speaker A: Us in the playoffs for the recent past.
[00:49:37] Speaker B: That's it.
[00:49:38] Speaker C: Guardians.
[00:49:38] Speaker A: Brewers.
[00:49:39] Speaker C: World Series.
[00:49:40] Speaker A: The Brewers are a sleeper team. The NL. The Brewers are a lot.
[00:49:43] Speaker B: I don't like the brewers still. We talked about it last year in the playoffs, and it paid off, too, because I don't know, they just, I.
[00:49:50] Speaker A: Don'T think they never, they can never get over.
[00:49:51] Speaker B: They have enough to get it done in the playoffs. There's a regular season team, and I don't know if I would actually. I mean, that is the last matchup of the regular season for the Mets. It'd be really interesting if they play three games to end the regular season and then three more games immediately after that to start the playoffs. That is going to be an interesting story. Like, because I like that. Match it for the Mets.
[00:50:15] Speaker A: Right? And another thing you got to keep an eye out for is, like, we saw it last year, the teams that make the wild card, like, sometimes the teams that get the by, they, they get a little rusty. Like the Phillies making that World Series push. The Diamondbacks making that World Series push. You didn't expect those things to happen.
[00:50:30] Speaker B: Because it's teams, like, hot.
[00:50:31] Speaker A: Yeah, they get hot. They're playing in the wild card. Then they just, they, they pick it up and they run with it. I mean, but then there's teams that don't play for a couple days, like, the teams that get the buys, then they're, they're rusty. They don't see, they don't see live pitching. And it gets a little sketchy, and, I mean, a little.
[00:50:48] Speaker B: I mean, the Dodgers, I mean, it's hard to say because the Dodgers, as a franchise just always crumble.
[00:50:53] Speaker C: Dodgers in October.
[00:50:54] Speaker B: I'm trying to remember the bracket from last year, and I just remembered, like, I was like, how did the Phillies make the championship series last year? And I remembered the Marlins made the playoffs last year. Do you guys remember that?
[00:51:04] Speaker A: I do.
[00:51:05] Speaker B: That that's.
[00:51:05] Speaker C: They went on like a crazy run.
[00:51:07] Speaker B: They have 55 win. They're going to lose 100 games this year. And they made the playoffs last year. I mean, there's some crazy fall up studies. I mean, the Rangers are below 500. They won the World Series.
[00:51:17] Speaker A: They also had so many injuries.
[00:51:19] Speaker B: Yeah, that's.
[00:51:20] Speaker A: That's so many injuries.
[00:51:22] Speaker C: Speaking of taxes, fall offs, top four teams in 2021 were Braves, Dodgers, Astros, White Sox.
[00:51:29] Speaker B: Yeah, the White Sox, no. 30 win. White Sox 35 win, White Sox 115.
[00:51:37] Speaker C: They have to go seven and five to tie the worst. Like, the most losses all time.
[00:51:41] Speaker B: They play the Padres, the Angels, the Angels again, and the Tigers. So is it possible for them to wait?
[00:51:49] Speaker A: Whose remaining schedules?
[00:51:50] Speaker B: This is the White Sox. To see if they can surpass being the number one worst team ever, they need to the mirror.
[00:51:59] Speaker A: Like the Cleveland Spiders, like before.
[00:52:01] Speaker B: Like, no. In 162, most losses ever. Like, just by account.
[00:52:05] Speaker A: But also Cleveland Spiders, before they were even like a team.
[00:52:09] Speaker B: But the worst, they won, like, isn't.
[00:52:10] Speaker A: That a team game?
[00:52:12] Speaker C: Richmond.
[00:52:14] Speaker B: Yeah. The Cleveland Spiders with Ziyoung.
[00:52:15] Speaker A: Yeah. They won like 16 games.
[00:52:17] Speaker B: But I think that the night. The expansion mets have the worst 162 game record at 40 and 122. So the White Sox need to win five more games to get to 40 wins.
So is that possible? I don't think so.
[00:52:35] Speaker A: There's a lot to look out for, actually.
[00:52:37] Speaker B: One, two in a row. The other this weekend, I think they beat Oakland two games in a row. They walked them off one of those games. So I don't know.
[00:52:45] Speaker A: Well, we covered a lot today. A lot to look forward to in the coming week. Twelve games left. Coming down to the wires.
[00:52:52] Speaker B: Next week's show. That's huge.
[00:52:53] Speaker C: That's the big show clinches probably one.
[00:52:55] Speaker A: We will have a couple.
[00:52:56] Speaker B: We'll have a couple Phillies next week. Dodgers, probably Yankees, Yankees, Orioles, both will clinch by next week. And the Guardians as well.
[00:53:03] Speaker A: We'll probably all have a good idea of what the playoff picture is going to look like.
[00:53:06] Speaker B: Well, in the astronomy, Mariners are so bad.
[00:53:09] Speaker A: It's good to be back, boys. And like I said, big, big, big week ahead. We'll be back next Monday, same time, same place. Have a good night. Boysenheid.
