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Outman hits grand slam to propel Dodgers to 7-3 victory over Twins
"James outman hit a 7th inning Grand Slam that lifted the Dodgers to a 7 to three win over the twins with two out and the score tied at three outman connected off Emilio pagan. That was a good feeling. It was good to come up big in a big spot right there. Pagan walked in the tying run before giving up the slam to outman Minnesota's Byron buxton and Joey Gallo hit solo homers, twins ace, Sonny gray lasted only four innings allowing two runs, Bruce dargo got the win. Mark Myers, Los Angeles
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"byron buxton" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"But which is the best from today on, let's say, or the most formidable playoff opponent should they make the playoffs because looking at, say, the fangs depth charts, which is not, I think, subject to strength the schedule, if you look at the playoff ads, then strength the schedule plays a part. Right. Projected standings do not have strength of schedule baked in. That is correct. So if you look at the playoff ads page, then the projected rest of season winning percentages, which does take into account the schedule. The razr at 5 41, the Blue Jays are at 5 40, the Yankees are at 5 39. That's too close to call. That is two points of what he presented separating them. If you look at the schedule independent projected recipes and winning percentage, then you have the raise at 5 53. The J's at 5 49, the Yankees at 5 46. So really doesn't make a whole lot of difference. You look at the Yankees right now and they are extremely banged up. Yeah, they seem like a not fun team to watch at the moment. Something like half of their payroll is on the IELTS. The usual suspects, right? Not exactly. Guys who were models of durability for the most part too. So I guess you get what you pay for. You get what you sign and you reap what you sow in that respect. But there's still a solid team and I guess it's hard to say the raise or not the best team in that division, even though a month ago, relatively few people would have said that. People picked them to be a playoff team, but not necessarily to win that division. Generally. So having seen their display of dominance thus far, I guess it would be hard not to crown them as the cream of the crop currently. Well, and it just goes to show, you know, as we were watching their wind streak to open the season and we were trying to discern how much signal there was in the noise and what it meant and whether it should alter our understanding of them, I think that the power of banking, all those wins when you look at how close sort of the rest of season stuff is projected to be. It's quite meaningful, right? They have this cushion. They just and the other teams in the east have some cushion too, but man, not as much. They've got a real princess and the pea situation, they're all on top of a bunch of cushions. Or are they multiple mattresses? Remember that book? I was like, that's a lot of mattresses. Obviously, why are we making fun of her for being discerning and having a balky back? That's very relatable. Why are we so mad at this princess of all the princess problems? That's like a really normal princess problem. It's true. Yeah, they get into way worse scrapes than being bothered by a piece. So I mentioned in the outro last time, this is sort of on the subject of the as the a's in better days. I was noting in the outro that Byron buxton had homered again after we talked about Byron buxton homering constantly during the episode. And the twins debuted their new home run celebration, the land of 10,000 rakes, which I believe that for the pedantic among you that listener and Patreon supporter Chris hanel along with frequent stat blast consultant Ryan Nelson confirmed that they have not actually hit 10,000 homers since the team has been playing in Minnesota. It's like 8800 or something, although I guess you can rake without hitting a Homer. So there's that. Anyway, what I noted was that I liked the creativity of the land of 10,000 rakes celebration, but they had gone about it in this very intentional planned sort of way. Like they had a little committee on the team that was like, all right, what's our home run celebration going to be? We got to come up with some kind of coordinated ritual here and then they went out and they bought props and they sort of put it to the committee. I comped it to the office party planning committee. It's just become so routine now that you have to have a home run celebration and I wondered which team was patient zero for this, like when did this start? Because it's crept in bit by bit and we've seen this gradually take over, but it feels like it's reached some kind of critical mass this season where it's like you're the outlier if you don't have one of these celebrations. So I put it to the listeners which was the first team to do this because I was thinking like was it the 2019 Nats and dance parties and then the Red Sox laundry carts came after that. But some people sent in several that preceded that a lot of people mentioned the Dodgers bubble dispenser in 2014 when they had like the bubble machine and they would turn on the public machine in the dugout and then MLB for some reason got mad about that and told them to stop doing the bubbles. But what was the rationale for that? They did not comment at the time and explain why they had instructed them to stop. I'm not sure they did stop permanently, but I found this LA Times article from back then where AJ Ellis was saying everybody has their own way to celebrate a home run now that was 2014 and he was already saying like everyone does this.
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"byron buxton" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"Good. I wonder if it's good or bad that our episode Snider now preceded by numbers. That big? That's a really big number. It's part of the headline. It's part of the episode title. I guess it doesn't have to be. I wonder what the effect of that is psychologically. If someone just stumbles across the website fan graphs dot com or they hear want to look for a good baseball podcast, try effectively wild. And then they look it up and says episode 2001. Do you think that might be slightly intimidating? Do you think they might feel like maybe I've missed too much? It would be tough to catch up on this one. Oh, yeah, I mean, I wouldn't even how would one, you know? People do. People have, but you don't have to, is that nice thing? Yeah, we could include a previously un effectively wild before every episode and it would be several hours long. But I don't think you need that. Endeavor to allow people to just jump right in and when we refer back to things, we try to explain it as much as we can without boring everyone who has been following along. But yeah, I wonder, just for sort of a discoverability perspective, because some podcasts say that was season one and this is season two, and then they will start counting up again. Even non narrative ones that have actual seasons and breaks just so I guess it doesn't get too onerous in the numbers don't get too big, but that ship has sailed a long time ago for us. It's had the I think to have episode numbers if you want to look up old episodes or site old episodes, we can just cite a number and then it's easy to scroll back to that episode number. So you can find old episodes more easily, I guess. And plus people know we're not going to go away. We're not like, I don't want to get too attached to this podcast. It might not last. There might not be staying power in this podcast. They know that we're proven, obviously. Like we've stuck around for 2000 episodes. It can't be that bad. I do wonder, what are people's impressions? And if you're going, you know, if you do start going back through, well, presumably you would have listened to maybe a current episode and you're like, oh, I like this. I'll go back to the beginning. And then I wonder when people do that, they're like, wait, who is this Sam guy? And where does he go? And then sound like that. And also what year was this? 2012? You do kind of sound like you've taken a second on those first calls. Yeah. Of course. It's a very drowsy version of Ben. You're much more up now than you used to be. Yeah, I would say I have high energy now, but I was definitely low energy back then. So anyway, hopefully, people are not too put off by the fact that there's a big backlog. Hopefully that's a selling point. Just in case you ever want to go back our back catalog is extensive. So it's like the Joe DiMaggio lying about how he wants to play well every game because there's always some kid who may be seeing me for the first or last time and I owe him my best. So that's what we try to do here too. There's probably someone who's listening us to us for the first time in every episode. If that is you, listener, hello. Welcome. Welcome. We don't talk about the episode numbers. Set the top of every episode. This is a one time thing. But we want to do the DiMaggio and give people our best every time. Just in case it is the first or the last, I guess, but if we're really good, then hopefully it won't be the last because they'll want to come back for more. I just can't believe that we've gotten this far in and either of us has made a 2001 a space oxygen. Right. Like it's in both of our wheelhouses. So our powers of juicing players careers by noticing that they're not doing that well, continue unabated because we talked last week about Byron buxton and we wondered, well, is he going to hit as a DH? Now kept him healthy by keeping him off the field and just de aching, but it seems to have backfired slightly in that he's been available, but he hasn't been himself. He hasn't been hitting like his old self and of course he's not offering any defensive value. Well, since we talked about that, just four games, but he has the 5th highest WRC plus of any qualified hitter over that span. He has hit a few home runs. Three two B precise. He is batted three 33, four 12, one O 6 7. That's a two 94 WRC plus, and now his season WRC plus is up to one 30, which is a lot better than the 98. It was then and it's basically what he hit last year. So our powers, it's the opposite of the SI cover jinx. It's the effectively wilds. I don't know, blessing. It's when we talk about how you're not doing that. Well, suddenly you start to do well. It's worked before for Bryce Harper. It's worked many times. Yeah, we had a lot to do with Bryce Harper, you and me, you know? Unsung heroes in the Bryce Harper Odyssey. Absolutely. Yeah, so we've now conferred the effectively wild blessing upon Byron buxton. So if he keeps hitting like this, then he can be very valuable even as a DH. He even as a DH and I think that we have talked before and it is something that we continue to noodle on internally. It's like the DH penalty two. Is it too much? Is it too much Ben? Yes, a little too much. So, but yeah, I just want a good version of buxton to be on the field and healthy. And you know, ideally, ideally, that involves him playing center field just because it is so electric when he does, and he is so, although I will say, have you had this experience? How much of the twins have you actually watched Ben? A few games? A few games. So here is an experience that I have had when I have watched the twins this year. And I feel very conflicted about it because again, like I, I love watching Boston play center. I think that I haven't tried to come up with a comprehensive list of my favorite individual tools in a while because there's so many. There's so many tools and baseball wait, that's not what I mean. But, you know, it's hard to narrow it down because so many of these guys are so good and they're good and multitudinous ways, right? It is exciting. But I will say this. One Byron by simply center fields, at least once a week. At least once a week, there is a time where you're like, bye, and no. Because he does something so athletic and incredible, but also tinged with danger and you're like, he's gonna hurt himself. This is the one. This is the play. This is the time he's colliding into the wall. This is the time when he's doing that thing. And it's gonna derail his entire season and unfortunately we have a great deal of precedent to that end, right? And so I will say, as much as it is not, you know, I wouldn't call it like early effectively wild sleepy. We're not at Ben in episode four. Sleepy levels of buxton, but it is like a more relaxing experience to just watch him DH because, well, it is not without its perils, right? He had that scary collision at second base the other week.
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"byron buxton" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"Buys us a baseball. The good kind that's not all chewed up from my dog. It's a happy time in my whole life. A good place for boys and Papas. Sounds like it's from 1898. And then Andrea aged 9 said, I like baseball because the action is fun and you get to have chips and cheese. Everyone in the family likes to eat them. My dad could have caught a ball once, but he was carrying food at the time. I would have dropped the food and caught the ball. And then Tyler age 11, baseball is still America's favorite pastime because baseball is baseball. Baseball can't be beat. It's a tautology Tyler. It seems even the youngest among us, David concludes, can't help, but be romantic about baseball. So yeah, I guess if you're pulling your readers under the age of 13 with the prompt that why should baseball still be considered the national pastime, then I guess you're not going to get a lot of responses that say it shouldn't. They're all just we love baseball and our Papas do too. Anyway, there were a lot of youngins who still like baseball in 1998. Hopefully, they still do today. Hopefully. All right, a few follow-ups for you here. The pirates lost to the Dodgers, Mookie betts started at short again, Shohei Ohtani stole two bases in an inning, the ray is finally lost at home, the a's lost, but the twins won to beat the Yankees in their season series for the first time since 2001. Byron buxton doubled and hit a go ahead Homer. We've received many more submissions for potential new nicknames for the flyball power oriented yandy Diaz that we've seen this season. People were not satisfied with fly mignon or lunch meat or meat loft, and so they have submitted launch Angus. We got that one from a few people. Errors the beef, beef, it's what's for dinger, beef, bulgogi, pretty good. A vegetarian option, beyond beef instead of beyond beef, beef stroking up, which I like, but sounds like it might have more to do with our paternity leave conversation than yandy Diaz, beef boggy, and particularly launch Angus very strong. We'll add that to the list. Also last time we talked about one of the reds mascots, Rosie red and how the MLB website says that she's 5 foot 11 and a 101 pounds of fun. Well, some people in the Discord group pointed out that that's a lyric from the song from South Pacific, honey bun, a 101 pounds of fun. That's my little honey bun, but a, the song is pretty darn sexist. The line before a 101 pounds of fun is and she's broad where a broad should be broad. Okay. Also, the song specifies that honey bun is only 60 inches high. She's 5 feet tall, which makes more sense with the 101 pounds. So in a way, if it is a South Pacific reference, it's even more curious that they used it and that they changed the height the way that they did. So this does not make me look a skit at Rosie's listed dimensions any less than we were last time in response to our swingman stat blast from last time where we tried to find the ultimate platonic ideal of a swing man. Well, Patreon supporter James wrote in with a great suggestion, although not necessarily a platonic one, the swing is swingman ever could be Mike keke, who played most of his career with the Yankees, he pitched in 235 games and started a 112 for a ratio of 1.1 to one, he did pitch in 9 seasons and an 8 of them had at least one start in one relief appearance, but the clincher is that he famously traded wives with teammate for its Peterson. I get that this last part is hard to play index, but figured it fit the double entendre nature of your conversation. Yes, indeed, it does. Also, got a bunch of responses to the stat blast about pitch counts and Justin Turner and how it seems like running up the pitch count of starting pitchers is as valuable as it ever was, if not more so, even in this era of deep bullpens and great relievers. Read you a few responses Andrew noted, is it possible that Justin Turner's old team is skewing the samples since 2015, the Dodgers have been Uber dominant in the regular season and seen more pitches per at bat than a lot of other teams. I'd be curious to know if the numbers are more in line with the historical average if we eliminate Los Angeles and it's massive winning percentage from the group after all, pitches per it back can't be the main reason, let alone only reason that they've had this decade long run of supremacy. Good point, haven't checked on that yet. Cole says, I suspect the reason that driving a pitch count has a bigger effect in today's game has more to do with starting pitcher usage than bullpens in modern baseball throwing at high effort and fewer innings is sometimes part of the plan. Think of someone like Spencer strider who may only go four or 5 innings and many of his starts, but will often rack up 8 or ten strikeouts while doing so with fewer balls being put in play his pitch count climbs quickly, but he might still be dominating the opposing hitters. In this case, bring on the bullpen. Contrast that with several decades ago where the average pitcher was inducing much more contact with fewer strikeouts. If those pitchers had a high pitch count by the fourth inning, it almost certainly meant they were giving up lots of hits and having a bad outing. Hitters might not benefit as much from seeing the bullpen arms in this case. Related thought managers also have a much quicker hook with starting pitchers now and they might pull a pitcher early based on things other than results in the past managers would often wait until the starting pitcher imploded before pulling them early. Lastly, Jacob says my deep conviction is that this is a matter of simple probability relating to the number of pitchers used in their chance of either having it or not on a given day, basically in the past fewer relievers were used per game, including early starter exit games, but they tended to have longer outings, they were not as good, but there were fewer of them recently and today relievers are better, but just by dint of there being more of them, each responsible for fewer innings in early starter exit games means that the chances higher that at least one of them just doesn't have it that day leading to a higher chance of a further blow up and thus lowered expected odds of winning or comeback. You might be able to get at this by investigating the standard deviation of expected outcomes multiplied by the number of pitchers needed, but I'm not sure that even gets it at
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"byron buxton" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"That's for sure. Jeff passing just wrote about this ESPN. He said, between the start of spring training and the 20th day of the season, 236 players hit the iel the highest number ever in that period and by a wide margin because we've talked a couple of times on the podcast like I stopped getting hurt. Turn off the injuries. Move the injury slider a little bit down and Jeff said last year over the same period a 189 players hit the IO last year in a lockout shortened spring training. It was a 192 in 2020 ones COVID affected season and a 151, one 81, one 73, one 49 and one 69 in the previous 5 standard years. So he went on to say it doesn't seem like it's the pitch clock or a lot of people don't think it's the pitch clock that it might just be unlucky if it's just anomalous or some people said a number of athletic trainers and orthopedists are convinced that the widespread adoption of technology is offering misguided incentives that put players in harm's way. Players using high-speed cameras and radar devices to create perfect spin are actually manipulating their arms in ways that make them more likely to hurt themselves. He says sits next to impossible to prove and then it could just be that going on the injured list doesn't carry the stigma it once did. It doesn't seem like it's WBC related. I don't think that there's any particular correlation there this year or any year, so it just always a mystery. There was a BP article about this recently that showed that the big rise seemed to be in spring training and that since the season actually started, it hasn't been that extreme, so I guess that's maybe good. I don't know. It was the first long normal spring training in a while, so there was just more time in which to get injured in spring training. But also, I guess it's more injuries than even years that predated the pandemic and the lockout and everything. So just an ongoing story that we just can't seem to figure out preventing injuries. So until everyone is Bryce Harper and can heal instantly or until we make everyone into Byron buxton and put them in bubble wrap and try to protect them constantly, then I don't know what to do. I love that the Phillies inadvertently tried to do that by just having a team full of DHS. And then you're like, oh, no, we can't play them all there. What did we do? I am not a doctor, but have we thought that maybe the cumulative effect of weirdness is having something to do with the injury stuff. You're right that this year was relatively normal, and I agree with you that I don't think that the WBC thing really contributes to injuries in any meaningful way because you're still doing baseball stuff, but I don't know. We've had a couple of weird years in a row, so maybe there are some guys who are experiencing the sedimentary buildup of bizarre, you know? Could be? I meant to mention when we were talking about twins outfielders, Joey Gallo, 201 WRC plus. The man is slugging 7 57, 6 hovers in 44 plate appearances, love to see it. Love to see it. Byron buxton has struck out more frequently than Joey Gallo, which is never a positive sign. That's a weird, it's a weird world we live in, Ben. All right, let's do some step blasting.
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"byron buxton" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"It's almost like you're hobbling or hamstringing him, not with an injury, but just by placing limitations on him so that he will not get hurt. So again, I'm not saying that the only options are that he plays without any restrictions and inevitably gets hurt or he plays with a bunch of restrictions and is not that great. Maybe there's a middle ground where he plays without restrictions and actually does stay healthy or he plays with restrictions and manages to be better than he has thus far. But it's kind of tough because I want the full Byron buxton experience. I also want him to be healthy and available. So he hasn't stolen a base, right? I don't think he's attempted to steal a base so they have really just kind of put the brakes on him there too. And he's not playing the outfield. Now the twins went and got Michael a Taylor, which, as we talked about when they made that move, that's the next best thing to having baron buxton basically in center field. So they sort of we thought at the time buxton injury proved themselves a little bit by ensuring that they would still have an elite glove out there even if buxton was heard as it turns out he's not hurt, but they've just decided this is a way that we can kind of keep him healthy. So I know he was coming back from some stuff and will they eventually move him back to the outfield and let him run maybe or will he just figure out how to DH and be better at DHA? I don't know. But this middle ground, you know, if you had told me like bad bucks that will stay healthy, this would not be as graded outcome of that as I would have thought it would be. Yeah. Well, I'm curious so I feel like I saw on Twitter, twins fans, feeling very nervous about him. Didn't he have some collision running the bases? And people were nervous about it in part because of his prior injury history. He had a collision with Lenin Sosa with the White Sox infielder. Yeah. And so I don't want to say, I guess one thing I would, I would wonder a little bit is like, what does healthy mean? Like he's clearly healthy enough to play and I guess I would expect that if he were really dinged up that they would give him time off at least because they want to keep him healthy, but you know, it's like you got a little dinged. I don't know, it's just a tricky, it's a tricky thing I imagine that when you not only are you playing the fields but are used to playing the field at an elite level it would be very disorienting to go to full-time DH. Like it would make you lose your car keys or something, you know. Are you seriously? I think you would be very disorienting to be so superlative at something. So superlative can one be so superlative or as one just superlative. Anyway, I imagine that it would make you it would take a while to adjust to and to develop sort of a rhythm and routine around the game. And Byron buxton is an elite player, so I don't want to overemphasize the importance of that. He could just be in a weird rut and he'll course correct and then it'll be fine, but it does, I think you're right to wonder what role that is playing in the background of all of this and whether it might not be as meaningful as his mechanics being out of whack or him needing to make some other adjustment to his approach that we would tend to ascribe this kind of a down period to relative to other stuff. But that he was asked recently if buxton would play center, he said, I don't think anyone truly knows the answer to that question. I'm enjoying the fact that I get to write his name in the lineup virtually every day right now and at this point I'm not going to do anything to jeopardize that because I think that's the most important thing. Buxton asked how he felt as a DH said I wouldn't say comfortable, it's still a job that's not normal for me. It's still something I'm figuring out and hopefully he will. But it would be bad if the only way that we could get healthy buxton is by basically like taking away a lot of the things that does well. The twits as a whole have stolen two bases this year. Yeah, they are like, we are so men. Molasses, guys. The thing is they're not that slow. In theory, they shouldn't be that. I know it's kind of an organizational thing. They haven't run often. The last time they were in a bottom 5 team installing basis was 2017, they were last insulin bases last year in 2020 and 2019. So that's just kind of the way that they're built and the way that they play their game. But also things have changed conditions have changed. So even if you weren't running a lot in prior years, it makes more sense to run this year. And just wrote about this Rockefeller said, stewing bases only works if you're safe. That is quite true. Self evident. I suppose. But things Rocco. Yeah, I mean, only the rockies have stolen as few bases as the twins, the rockies have also stolen two and I think maybe they have attempted one more than the twins, but the rockies like they're kind of old and slow. So Iraqis, but the twins have attempted 5 in successfully stolen two the rakis have attempted for in successfully stolen two. The rockies, though, I don't think they have the personnel to be burners, whereas the twins they have some fast guys, including bird bucks then who doesn't run for understandable reasons. But they're not that old and that slow. And it seems like they could be a little less extreme in the no running in this current stolen base positive environment. It's just so funny because organizationally, if you look at their minor leagues, like those guys run all the time, like they are zip zooming around and I think that there does appear to be sort of an organizational preference for try it. You know, we want you to make a bunch of attempts understanding even with the rule changes I would expect that the likelihood that they will continue to be as successful as they move up the minor league ladder and then theoretically make the big leagues their success rate will go down. But it does make for a very jarring thing because you're like, you know, you look at any rocky's position player minor leaguer and they've stolen a million bases and then you look at the big league squad and I'm like, do you wear ankle weights? Like, is this like a fitness thing?
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"byron buxton" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"77 players. 360 four, four 55, 7 58. Yeah. 500. But still. But still, you know, it's something right now. It's really quite something because I remember not too long ago when the Phillies acquired or picked up a Christian Pasha and we were like, so they've traded in one no hit center Fielder for another, not traded in, but we'll compliment with and then Brandon Marshall was like, how dare you? Absolutely. How dare you? I am going to hit everything and post a 500 7 58 slug. What a treat, gosh. Well, also, Bryce Harper might be Wolverine in terms of his healing factor. We talked about how he might not need a rehab assignment, partly because of the fancy advanced pitching machines. But they're looking like if he gets clearance, he could be back the first weekend in May, which is pretty unbelievable. It's the fastest Tommy John return ever, I think. Position players they could come back faster from the pitchers, but it's still remarkably rapid if he actually does come back. And he had surgery on November 23rd. I remember at the time thinking, obviously, he delayed the surgery for a good reason. The Phillies had a deep playoff run and were in the World Series and then he didn't have it, and he was a big part of that as a big recall. Obviously he was hitting just fine with the toward UCL. And then he didn't have the surgery immediately like the day after the World Series. And I was thinking, well, obviously they were happy to have him propelling them to dependent wind. But also sucks that he'll be missing a lot of the 2023 season and it turns out maybe not actually because he's just a super fast healer, which I guess he has a pattern of being fairly healthy or at least coming back quickly from injuries, but this is pretty ridiculous that he might be back this fast. I'm surprised that they are willing to risk shifting the Supernatural forces around here because on the one hand, yes, it seems like he is. Wolverine esque, which isn't Supernatural, then it's about science and genetic luck, okay. That wasn't Supernatural. But is exhibiting, 'cause he had to heal fast for them to do the stuff on him, right? Yeah. The adamantium. He's a mutant. But the super fast healing was a prereq to the adamantium working. Right, 'cause otherwise it would kill them, Ben. Yeah, it would be quite painful. Quite painful. Right. So really incredible in terms of his healing powers. And then they are contemplating playing him at first base, which is clearly deeply cursed. For the Phillies. So how do those forces interact with one another? Like on a cosmic level is one of the questions that I have. Right. Yes, you would think that he would improve the situation at first base where they're down to what their third string option at least unless it's cursed and he gets hurt again. But if it does the heel very rapidly and he'll be back from that injury too. I guess so. Also, I wanted to mention another person who is healthy and who has stayed healthy. And that's Byron buxton. The news I would say is kind of mixed because on the one hand, Byron Braxton has been healthy and he is a qualified better, I believe, at this point, just in terms of play appearances, I thought of making that a prediction in our preseason predictions gave that Byron buxton would actually qualify for the batting title. I mean, he's played 21 games. He's got 87 plate appearances. So it's working. They're planned to keep him healthy. However, he has not been particularly productive. No. He has a 98 WRC plus, so he's basically been a league average ish hitter. And he's been a DH. So we just hit her as a DH who's not very valuable. So it's almost, I guess, a monkey's pass order situation. It's like, what if we could keep some healthy? But if we keep them healthy, he won't actually be all that productive because a big part of his value, obviously, is defense. And also, there's a DH penalty hysterically speaking. Guys who DH, they tend not to hit as well. Right. Now, Russell carleton has shown that that may not apply to full-time DHS eventually. Part of that, the question has always been, is there DH penalty because it's hard to TH, or is it because when guys do DH? They're often nursing some nagging injury. Injury or they're tired, it's like a partial day off. It does seem to be that it is actually hard to hit when you're a DH because that makes sense if you're not doing it all the time, like you're used to being warmed up and in the field and active and DH is sometimes they get used to that routine and they figure out, okay, here's how I sort of stay in the game even though I'm at the H and maybe I go down to the cage and I take some swings between plate appearances like you figure that out over time. And so there seems to maybe not be as big a DH penalty when you're a regular DH and so maybe Barbara buckson will get the hang of full-time DHA and he will start to hit better. But it is kind of like I mean it's nice for him that he is not physically hurt, obviously like I'm glad he is not in pain and because he does not have Wolverine or Bryce Harper's helix factor. So it's good that he is healthy and relatively pain free. But as a baseball player, a big part of the fun and the joy of buxton is that he could do so many things, right? And he was fast and he was probably the best defender best outfielder. And you take those things away from him. It's almost like you're hobbling or hamstringing him, not with an injury, but just by placing limitations on him so that he will not get hurt. So
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"byron buxton" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"You got Randy rose arena. You got ground beef, you had a Diaz. Many Margot or Manuel Margot made a nice catch on opening day, Brandon Lau is healthy again. You've got Shane mcclanahan looked great, right? And maybe at some point, the pitching gets healthier and you see Tyler glass now out there and I'm a patino fan, so maybe you get to see patino. So there's definitely like some anonymity on that pitching staff and with the rays and the way they use pictures and you just never know who these guys they're rolling out there, throwing unhittable sliders are and discover their names and then they're amazing and sometimes they're in the rotation and sometimes they're in the bullpen and maybe you don't pick them out of a lineup. But there's always a lot of talent and it'll be interesting to see what if anything the rays do to adjust to new rules because you know that the rays are always going to be at the forefront of whatever the next innovation is. So they're always good, they're always competitive and they haven't won a World Series yet either. So that's something to root for. I. From an outfield fast boys I'm going to an outfield that features at least one what boy I am taking the Phillies. Of course, yeah. I can't believe they lasted this long. Yeah, it's maybe an oversight on our part just like my leaving them out of the postseason in my stuff predictions could prove to be an oversight. Yeah, I did that too. I didn't do that actually. Sorry, I did that. Though, I gave them a third wild card again. Look, again, I wanted to have a pick that wasn't just chalk. And so I went with the Diamondbacks in the third wild card spot, and then a team, you know, somebody had to go. And I decided that while it is good to have some stretch picks, leaving the mets or the Dodgers off felt like a bridge too far for me. Yeah. And while the Dodgers and Phillies are similar in that, I worry about both of those teams depth. I think that there are just more potential worst case scenarios available to the Phillies, and so I don't know that they will make the postseason, but I think they will be a lot of fun to watch. Parts of yesterday's game were fun for Philly's fans to watch, and then there were parts later on that were less good. But watching them actually notch some runs against the Graham had to feel good for them. We got to see Turner do a cool slide. We got to see back to back triples and then know what kind of fell apart. But other than that, you know, the play was good. So I think the Phillies are going to be at times incredibly frustrating at times a tremendous delight, always imbued with a sense of confidence that will not necessarily be reflective of their record at any given time. And again, just the wettest boy out there. You know, marsh, I hope you never change. So I'm taking the Phillies. Okay, all right, they're a few different directions I could go here. It's kind of a toss up, but I guess I'll take the twins. Sure, yeah. Okay. I'll take the twins. You could tell him very confident about this pick. But look, Byron buxton healthy for now, right? Yeah. Doing some DHA for the moment, which is not as fun as buxton in the center, obviously. But there's a lot of interest in, obviously, weather buckston has a full healthy season. Whether there will be a Joey Gallo, bounce back at all. I enjoy watching Christian Vasquez. I enjoy watching cross Korea. Like Luis arrives not being any not being here anymore that hurts. Because he was quite fun. But I also, I kind of like this pitching staff. I enjoy Joe Ryan, Pablo Lopez looked great on opening day, you wanted to run is kind of amazing. So, you know, and they've had some tough times, and they lost the most value to injury last year if you go by Windsor puffer replacement projected that they last. So they're due for a bounce back. They spent a 108 days in first place last year and they wear my pick to win the central, although I was not at all confident about that pick and might have gone toward the guardians of Trisha Mackenzie had not been hurt, but a lot of players I enjoy watching and also a lot of question marks and what are you going to get out of this guy kind of questions that I'm looking forward to having it. And even though you don't get buxton and center for now, you do get Michael a Taylor and center, which is the next best thing. Yeah, I think this is a good pick. Thank you. What good pick will I make? You know? If you were me and you had to make a good pick, we'll pick what you pick. I think I picked the Yankees. Why are the Yankees still unpicked? You know? Yeah. So I guess here's the thing about the Yankees being
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"byron buxton" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
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Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"byron buxton" Discussed on Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"Kepler, Joey Gallo, Michael a Taylor and Christian Vasquez are all highly regarded for their glove work. Breakout star Jose Miranda hit 25 doubles and 15 homers in a 125 games last season and then twins expect his production to grow, getting behind Correa and Byron buxton. The baseball tonight podcast wind projection. 86 wins for the 2023 twins. Has Minnesota 87.9. I've got the twins at 88, Sarah Lang says, 88. Todd ratum is the chief executive of our weekly quiz at graphic artists whose work can be seen on ball fields all around the country all around the world, or you can go to his website, Todd radham dot com Todd. Welcome back to the podcast for 2023. Buster, I am so excited. It is a new season spring is in the air, the light looks a little different. We're gonna change the clocks and I'm just so grateful and happy to be back with you. So I'm gonna ask you in future weeks about what you're seeing in the game and the way that it's transitioning this year with the pitch clock, et cetera, but I'm gonna wait a little bit longer to get your observations on that because we've been filling it up with a podcast every day. So instead I'm gonna throw you this curve ball. I just told Carl rabbits a story of the conversation I had with Raphael Devers yesterday and I asked him what gift he gave himself after he signed that whopper 313 and a half $1 million deal your Red Sox fan. I'm sure you're happy that he's going to be around for the foreseeable future, but he got that great Rafi Grimm and he acknowledged he said a car and he got a Range Rover, which he has he designed it. He said it's waiting for him in Boston. If you were to sign a 313 and a half $1 million deal, what do you think might be a gift to yourself? Well, buster. That's a great question. And I am not the kind of person who likes things. I mean, we all like things, but you're not a car guy either. I am not, I have a car and I want to get rid of it because I live in a city and it's a pain in the, you know what? You know, I have a lovely place to live. I would want to, I am a I've reached a point in my life and maybe you can relate where experiences are better than stuff, right? Maybe I would buy myself an incredible watch. Maybe I would buy myself, you know, some hot sneakers, all right? Those are low budget items. But I would probably put it in buckets, you put a third of it away approximately if not more for taxes, you take a third of it and you invest it wisely and I would take, I would take several vacations that would be off the charts, 5 star hotels, restaurants, interesting experiences, and you can have my car if you really need it, by the way. You'll never need my Subaru. I don't know. You're talking about things. I've told my kids because in the last 18 months, I've thrown out so many of my possessions. And I've told my kids that they need to thank me in advance of my death because I'm saving them so much time for after the fact that they won't have to go through it. I'll be taking care of it. I'll be slimmed down to what they actually might want and need rather than them having to sort through it. Yeah, hey, listen, I moved in November. And, you know, holidays came around shortly thereafter and I had the same conversation with my offspring as they entered my new place for the first time in a new city and the burden of all of that buster. It's a very could be a topic for a whole separate podcast actually. Right, exactly. All right, so our theme of the year is going to be unveiled in a future podcast. We are also going to start the quiz. I believe next week, so we'll save those for later in spring training. This is like an early exhibition time when you're just getting a couple of reps in, a couple of innings, a couple of swings. When I ask you what you're seeing on fields, it's catching your eye. Yeah, so from a visual perspective buster 2023 is going to be a different kind of season because we are going to see advertisements in the form of patches on majorly uniforms. Throughout the season, a handful of teams, including the Astros, angels, Red Sox, Diamondbacks, Padres, and reds to this point have announced sponsorship deals with ads on patches. And while I don't want to give air to these advertisers, unless they're paying you and I and ESPN, which I'm not sure they are, but we've got again at conglomerates. And smaller companies, supermarket chains, telecommunications, insurance, this kind of thing. And it's going to take some getting used to buster, but here's the really weird aspect of this. eSports fans, we have, I think, grown accustomed to this year. In the U.S. since the NBA broke the seal on ads on uniform several years ago, and part of the reason that I think this is kind of been a smooth transition is that the NBA presents their advertisements in a very singular place on every team's uniforms, but in MLB, the ads are gonna shift from the right to the left sleeve depending upon the handedness of a particular player. No kidding. Yeah, so you'll see guys with, you know, with, wait, and but dexterous players, switch hitters. I'm not quite sure how that's gonna work. But as an example buster, the Cincinnati reds are going to have a prominent Midwestern supermarket chain advertising on their uniforms and mister red or
Bloomberg Radio New York
"byron buxton" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"You, John. 5 35 on Wall Street time for the Bloomberg sports update with John session. Thanks, Nathan, another win for the American League in the baseball Ulster game. That's 9 in a row 21 of the last 25. In Los Angeles, the NL score twice in the first inning Paul goldsmith homered, but the rest of the game ten AL pitchers, including the Yankees Nestor Cortez and clay Holmes, combined to hurl 8 scoreless innings allowing only one hit with ten strikeouts, Toronto's Alec manoa struck out the side in the second and he did so as he was talking to the fox broadcasters, Cleveland's Emanuel chase struck out the side of the 9th on just ten pitches. The AL one three to two is going all three in the fourth inning the game time long two run Homer by the Yankees Giancarlo Stanton and LA native, his first career All-Star Game hit next batter was the twins Byron buxton solo shot 7th time in All-Star Game history back to back homers both cable off Tony Gonzalez and he took the law something he hasn't done all season. He's 11 and O for the Dodgers Stanton in his first All-Star Game as a Yankee third yank to win MVP. Derek Jeter did it in 2000, Mariano Rivera in 2013. And SEC media day Alabama coach Nick Saban asked about players now being able to cash in on their name image and likeness. Our players did extremely well last year. I think they made over $3 million in name image and likeness. And but I do think that the concerns are there has to be something some guidelines that sort of protect competitive balance. We have a lot of social media reaction to that comment considering Sabin makes over 9 million a year and it hasn't really been competitive balance in college football as Alabama has dominated every year. John stash, I wear Bloomberg sports, Nathan. John, thanks, it's just about 5 37 on Wall Street, time for the tri state business report. Here's Bloomberg's Scott Carr. A measure of optimism among small businesses in New Jersey is pretty dismal. The national federation of independent business small business optimism index dropped by 3.6 points last month to 89.5, the survey found 34% of business owners reported inflation was the single most important problem in operating their business. The Luxembourg based multinational firm arendt and meta knot has inked a 5 year deal for office space in Rockefeller Plaza, the firm which was previously in the building is expanding its footprint there by 1000 ft², heads up hot dog fans. Today is national hot dog day and Coney Island's Nathan's famous will be offering up 5 cent hot dogs with a purchase of a regular priced dog at participating restaurants. Nathan's has restaurants in 24 states, about 40 in New York State. That's the Bloomberg tri state business report. I'm Scott Carr, and no relation. Thank you, Scott. It's 5 38 on Wall Street Bloomberg radio is on the air from San Francisco to New York, London to Hong Kong. Let's check in with our global news team for some of the top stories heard in our 300 affiliate radio stations
AP News Radio
Judge, Sánchez Rally Yanks From 5-Run Deficit Over Twins 6-5
"The Yankees stormed back from a five run deficit to beat the twins six to five Gary Sanchez line two game winning single in the bottom of the tenth two innings after Aaron judge tied it with a three run Homer it was a big win for Aaron Boone's ball club to fall fall behind like that after an emotional weekend and obviously with these these games meaning so much that's a good one right there for a Polanco in the Kelso no slam two run homers in the first inning Byron Buxton added a third inning blast off rookie starter Luiz he'll making it five nothing Gleyber Torres scored the game winning run hours after the loss to shortstop job and was moved to second base the yanks won for just the fourth time in sixteen games since a thirteen game winning streak I'm Dave Ferrie
The Bill Simmons Podcast
"byron buxton" Discussed on The Bill Simmons Podcast
"I'm done trusting deebo. He's heard all the time. I think you better version of him. He's another guy who does the byron buxton thing he's just loves getting getting crushed on reverses by three guys. Yeah you a top twenty receiver. Last year with cj method and nick mullins and i think shanahan and the niners are going to come firing out of a cannon this year so i i really like you. He wasn't a secret by the last six. It would seem like he was putting up stats. I think he finally got hurt right near the end. Something happened them but he had. He had a stretch where he was pretty good. Oh he was awesome. Yeah that i mean that. It's a legendary draft the amount of Receivers we gotta that draft and like even the rookie cards like the tenth. Best guy in that draft has probably a good rookie card to put a sleep. All right six guy So if we want to stick with quarterback like. I think you know how you have to handcuff running back right you get like. Oh tony pollard. Behind zeke elliott. We should start doing that with quarterbacks. I you should. If you wanna wait on quarterback you go ahead and draft like brady you know tenth or eleventh and then just crept trae. Lance grabbed justin fields. Let them sit on your bench. I love lance like he looks like dak prescott and all the tape we see online like let a guy said who cares it like okay. So you're not gonna have sterling shepard as on your bench okay have trae lance instead. And then if he comes in and lights the world on fire you don't have to like spend an arm and a leg to get him in in on waivers so every year there's rookie. Qb that it starts happening even before you realize it's going to happen and you think that's yeah. Yeah i think lance's gotta to have and then you want the guy's legs because like maybe it takes a while to get acclimated as a thrower like field and lance just on their legs alone. It's like what jalen hurts. Did last year just draft. That guy you don't have to worry about getting them on waivers. Yeah i like that one. All right last. One sounds kind of boring. But randall cobb. Don't underestimate aaron rodgers ability to spiteful ass fight spiteful that's hilarious. He's only thirty years old and he was like listen. I'm not playing unless you get randall. Cobb it feel like he's gonna throw to them now. There's not a lot of besides fight. They adams i like randall. Cobb you've got out of the texans hellhole. He's only thirty. That's a late late late late. Late rounder yeah. He's a good flex guy. Yeah i have two for you. I haven't done my homework. Amal in jerry judy. I think there's some good advanced metrics stuff on him. Yeah i don't know if you've seen some of it about like. How bad is quarterbacks. Were versus what his production was. I like the. I thought he passed the test for me too. Yeah he had like a lot of drops but that doesn't matter everyone rates that too much and he's like an amazing route guy but do you want locker teddy thrown in the ball. I just feel like he's going to be better in the quarterback situation be better. 'cause lack was just a weird year general last year. You know. even if he's healthy that's going to be better for them but if teddy's in there it's better for him to i liked to receivers just in general. Yeah he's underrated. He was like just as good as cd lamb. Just jefferson but he had a shitty quarterback. And everyone's kind of off now. Yeah i think i could. People are a little off of to where it's like see lamb 'cause the cowboys thing is just always going to be overvalued but judy i think people felt like he might have been disappointing last year. And i don't know. I thought he had a couple of drops but talent wise. It's they're like the dude was open. If he was on minnesota or dallas he would have had the same year. Those other guys had. Yeah that's the big one for me. And it won't be the last time i say it. damian harris was unbelievable for the past. Oh i'm telling you. Do you hear reports of sony. Michelle's taken first team reps. What are they doing out now. They this is what bella check. Does i feel like he intentionally. Is damon harris the last few weeks of the year because he didn't want to like blow him up as an asset or getting somewhere contract thing down the road with them or anything as soon as they knew they were done all of a sudden they stopped using him. The way you'd use them if you'd like trying to win a game when your life depended on it there's great it's first of all i test. He was. I think the best running back. We've had probably since two thousand four corey dillon. Just for like a guy who could hit the whole. But there was great i think. Pf had a whole thing about yards that you could possibly have gained out of all your possible things he was like in the league. Yeah he got the most. He maximized his potential better than basically anybody. Except i forget who is number one. But i just think all the pats fans that is fucking awesome. Why don't we give him the ball. More and i think he could have a big year. Listen we talked about him on the fantasy show..
Yanks Go Yard: A New York Yankees podcast
"byron buxton" Discussed on Yanks Go Yard: A New York Yankees podcast
"Whatever the fuck they were doing yesterday. Holy shit anthony caster vince. Anthony castro vince on mlb dot com had a judge to the braves for drew waters and mystery dudes and then was like. Will it happen. No the aren't going to sell. Aaron judge thanks. Though it's like why the fuck did you put pen to paper to do that. Like no dot com. It's not we'll be dot com. That's we would write why what would have to happen. How would it look. It'll be dot com doing crazy trades. Aaron judge will it happen. No okay thanks for answering your own question but mlb network had jason dominguez going for byron. Buxton had a thread going of unseen of insane. It was a threat. Wasn't just one or two trades. The red sox getting sherzer for who in eighteen and eleven prospector blazed. Jordan and nick york their first round pick from last year. Who everybody agreed was not good. This is mark derosa going. What do you guys think about this. Hey i came up with this how you guys feel. I went absolutely. I looked at prospect list for the first time in my life last night. And i came up with this. Okay thank you put it on. Tv get it anymore. That's good mark. That's great stuff put that immediately on. Tv oh yeah anyway. There were more. I don't wanna go through them because they're they're truly mind-bending but then we keep going through this list. Kyle gibson is that guy the yankees want especially after his recent progression. Probably little bit more. Because he's under contract next year. To i believe i don't know richard rodriguez if they were to make a deal for him. I'm sure they would have just done it with homes or something He probably costs a lot. And 'cause he's under club control for a while but he's going to be like thirty two or something..
KNBR The Sports Leader
"byron buxton" Discussed on KNBR The Sports Leader
"Byron Buxton looks great when he plays, but he's always hurt. Um, you know, you've got Donaldson. You've got a lot of young outfielders that they're starting to fit into. You know who do they decide to keep Trevor Wir nach looks like he might be keeper. But what's that do with us? A A Max Kepler. They got some bullpen pieces again. Some of the guys that they counted on really haven't come through Randy Dab neck. Some of the guys to fill out the rotation, So I think they're getting close to a point where they may be going to just got that thing and Try to figure out where to start over with and I think you're going to start to see born more of their younger guys come up and play and another piece there. Michael Pineda, who is going to come. He just did a rehab start Thursday night getting act around a triple A, but you don't come that for much, but he'll be back in the rotation, probably by next week. Two or three. Good starts out of him, and there's a huge piece for somebody at the trade deadline. Well, I'm going to put Kenema Captain. My data on the Padres. How about that? But, yeah, I mean, he'd be a good fit, and you know, it's a veteran guy. That's something the Padres could use your if the Padres go for picture, it's got to be sort of that veteran guy because they're still pretty young in that rotation, and I think they need that that steady hand. At the top of the rotation if they're going to match up in the playoffs. Alright Paul, the Dodgers. The Dodgers with the Bauer scenario is a big question mark in their rotation. They're really down, not one starter, but two starters, depending on how long Bauer is going to be out. Any certain names, or do we know anything about the about our situation? In case they are going to be traded? No. And I think the Dodgers really sort of don't know either. You know, I mean, they're kind of going by what Bauer's told them, you know, Uh, MLB's trying to do with its own investigation, but they don't have any power in that They have to hope. Bauer will cooperate with them. They have to hope the woman involved will cooperate with them. Um, the thing about the Dodgers is there's still still depth. I mean, you're not going to replace power. Yeah, There's you're not going to go out and get somebody vets at that level. But you know, they're just now stretching out Consul in, uh, they'll they'll have him with two or three starts down the road. They'll have room ready to go 67 innings if they want to, You know, I think they're going to kind of take the approach. We're probably still good enough. Now, if we get they've got 3 to 4 weeks to figure this out. If we get too late July and all of a sudden this guy is not coming back..
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
"byron buxton" Discussed on The Herd with Colin Cowherd
"Well. Maybe anthony masterson name. Bs analytics is gay. What do you got for me. Anthony offense and baseball. This season like resistance is futile. The league wide average is the lowest since nineteen sixty eight. you'll be the lowest nineteen seventy-two and of course strikeout totals or an all time high continuing a decades long trend. But what hit the news. This past week was the outing of a dirty little secret. The men on the mound possess the use of foreign substances on the baseball nord increase spin and movement and take a picture. The league average spin rate on his four seam fastball. This year about twenty three hundred. Rpm's basically what indians starter. Aaron savali records his four seamer getting hit a a two fifty four clip this year again about average then take the dodgers bid rate maven. Trevor bauer who's four seamer. Goes up there to clip of over twenty eight hundred rpm over a hundred thirty. Rpm's higher than the next closest pitcher in the league. His four seamer is hit at a one forty three mark this year. That's a big difference. Now garrett cole clayton kershaw and bauer among others saw significant decreases in spin rates in their first start since mlb's announcement on the crackdown bowers. I start in atlanta. On june fifth. For example saw his spin rate on his fastball. dip over two hundred rpm slower than his yearly average to date could be coincidence. Sure but you can bet stat heads. And the commissioner's office alike will be hitting up the baseball savant game. Feed on bauer star. touring forward. That was a big week in the big leagues is it fair and now from. Mlb bro dot com. Here's jay jr gamble the scrappy. San francisco giants have surged past the glitz and glam dodgers and the new bree padres in the nfl west standings given a division three teams. That could legitimately win a world series. Jr is if foul or fair to say that the nfl west is the best division in baseball fan. Pat is a foul. it's still be american league east. it's a dog fighting that division. I get it the padres other fancy new toy with tatt. He's junior and company and they're exciting and media. Can't stop talking. About how tattoos junior compares with the all time greats like hank aaron and babe ruth at this juncture young career. But we get it when the new girl comes into the school the head. Cheerleader isn't the most sought after anymore but she's still a one. Let's not forget. She just not getting the same attention. The american league east remains the only division in baseball with four of the five teams. Have breakfast over five hundred. Nobody's a slouch slouching that division and even the last place orioles the only team in the division with the losing record debts found after three california teams in the national league west. There's a significant drop oil to the arizona diamondbacks and colorado rockies who let's be his spokes did just both caught awful right now and once. They start unloading veterans later in the season. The basically be automatic ws for anybody that plays them especially the powerhouse teams within their division. So i'll say the best divisional racing baseball. Yes it's in the top heavy. Nfl west but the best division in baseball remains the american league east with the yankees are fourth-place the red sox blue jays and lashes. Al champion raise obviously will underrated entering the season. The beast division remains the least as it's been for some decades. Now give a take a few seasons. Take out the papers tried. It's time for trash. Talk twitter wing with your chance to trash anyone or anything in major league. Baseball are this week's trash comes from at the smack and he tweeted me. This are nuff already with aaron. Boone and the yankees. I can't watch my team. The yankees need to make a move boon or the gm cashman need to go. The bronx deserves better. I'm tired of watching this and quote that came from j. d. at the smack on twitter. And if you want your tweet read on trash. Talk can hit me up on twitter at rob parker f s one. When rob was a newspaper columnist he lived by this motto. If i'm writing i'm rippin. Let's bring in a writer. Broadcaster older new i now. Let's welcome in craig. Calcaterra formerly of nbc sports. But doing his own thing these days he has a daily newsletter called cup of coffee. And we're gonna talk baseball with craig. Hey craig thanks. Welcome to the podcast. Thanks for having me and no doubt of so many different things to talk about couple teams to pepper you about and find. Let's start in the al leased and the tampa bay rays. Who just i mean. They traded blake's now. Everybody thought they do the towel. And they went to the world series a year ago and here we are in june and there in first place game and a half ahead of the red sox going into wednesday kanesa this or they really this good. They are really this good and and that's the thing about the raise. You mentioned them getting rid of lake now yet. He mentioned him They they got rid of charlie morton. It doesn't matter what the raise their the enemy of the next man up kind of team in baseball. You don't see that baseball very often year about that footfall basketball but the razor definitely that way. the depth of that team is absolutely incredible Tyler glasnost future cy. Young winner as the starter. So they're not gonna miss flakes. No richhill forty one years old. They're getting a new level out of him this year And then the real. The real power of this team is the bullpen. They are always five or six guys. Eat in five or six guys who are better than the top two on half the teams in baseball and this year for the first time in a long time. They're getting a lot of often to. They're getting a lot of power. They're they're They're getting on base at probably the best in the league if not the best. They're definitely up near the top solid team. The strongest team. Top to bottom in the american league this move to the al central. We all know the white sox. They survived that little storm with tony. Larussa mercedes and clubhouse not feeling that great about larussa calling out the young player. But i want to talk about the minnesota twins and what has happened to them. Byron buxton is coming back for them but when he went out they went straight down to the bottom. They're in last place in the al central even below two detroit tigers who are rebuilding. What happened there craig. Just across the board failure You know the starting pitching did not come through. J happens in a disaster. Matt shoemaker has been an even bigger disaster. Those were a couple of guys that really needs to step up their ace. Jose burritos he. He's good but he's not where they need him to be right now. The bullpen has been terrible. They've also been extraordinarily unlucky their record extra inning games. I don't have it off the top of my head but it's like really really bad. I think they've won one expert game out of something like eight or nine lost a lot of one run games. If anything has gone wrong for this team it has and like you mentioned buxton. He is distraught. That stirs the drink there. And he's losing him for so long Makes this lineup so much. Easier to pitch you. That a huge huge problem for them They're going to be a seller at the deadline at this point. I don't think they're going to be able to dig out of this hole. You're going to see someone like nelson cruz on the market and Just retrench ear a lot of talents. They're going to be fine again next year. Probably i think.
FanGraphs Fantasy Baseball
"byron buxton" Discussed on FanGraphs Fantasy Baseball
"About what this might do for his Stolen bases and possibly defense or do you think hey goes on rehab gets healthy and once healthy he goes back to playing like byron buxton hung man i'd actually be more concerned with his swing and how he rotates his. Oh that's a great guy. That's really fair and i know this because like i've torn the labor him in my it before all In you know obviously it doesn't seem like he's got like a significant issue there and hopefully they're taking their time you know it's not like they have anything play fourth this point i mean this. This team is atrocious this year. They're so bad. And i'm kind of surprised. I did not think they would be this. I thought they were gonna be competing for the division. I thought this was going to be a three horse race and end up being tours race between the twins and the white sox. Yeah yeah i thought. White sox twins at the top. Don't sleep on cleveland. And casey well. All of that is played out except the twins. Casey is of course. They're sitting at five hundred. White sox are the top cleveland's hanging in there. With their pitching. And jose ramirez it was ramirez rey s before raise got hurt. Now it's just ramirez doing by himself and nine homers from cesar hernandez somehow but yeah but a six eighty four p. s. So it's like he's selling out for power but anyway. This team is bad. That's a good call on the hip possibly affecting a swing. Let's hope that he is coming back fully healthy and he can get back to doing what he was doing this year. Which was having a brilliant brilliant season with a three seventy four zero eight seven seventy two line that included nine homers and five steals and five tries. And we're gonna finish up with a sad note here because it's probably the end of fantasy relevance if not his career outright. Chris davis with a k. And now we do. Have to specify i remember. There was a there at the very beginning. When when both were great that you had to specify 'cause they were both good then it became. Just you could say. Chris davis and you knew you were talking about kris with a k. Because the other one was not relevant on any level. Now they're both around so you have to specify again k. Is knock gray bob. And a rough twenty nine nineteen where he's still had twenty three homers but had six seventy nine disaster last year and thirty games. Six thirty two bs disaster this year with five ninety six. if he can't hack it in texas where they ostensibly have time to play him. What's really going to happen here. And that's why i'm concerned and feel like this is probably the essentially end for. Chris davis no. I don't know where he lands. Who's gonna find. I mean probably the dodgers at five homers like pools hazards. They can't they don't have a das. They can't they can't roster another guy like him. I know i know there was a complete joke. I don't really think that they're going to get him but if he did land somewhere like. Here's the thing if chris davis latched on with a decent team. Then you know the point is going to be nothing bad team. They might get more playing time. But do you even want that. Because we haven't seen him now. I can't even figure where the bad team is me. Neither i don't sleep thai rangers worthy bad team. Yeah yeah on all the other bad teams. They've got their own kind of guys like that like Baltimore has the other. Chris davis and the tigers have miggy. The twins have a good d. h. But they have nonetheless in in crews will those are the bottom feeders in the american league like he's not going to go to the national league. I don't care how bad the pirates of the diamondbacks get. They can't put him in the field. They can't put kris with a k. In the field. I'd rather put. Chris davis with the sea in the outfield before christmas. Like i'd read. okay. I thought this. I'd rather put. Chris davis with the c. In center field then to put kris with a k. Into the friendliest shortest left field without any. You know the easiest left field that you possibly can. I'd rather have the other day in center. It's not like the team can even really put him on the bench either because like he doesn't have a strong platoon advantage way or another. Yeah i think this is probably the end. He can go to the k b o in light it up over there. I honestly i would love that. I would if something that he's interested in. Obviously it's a big life. Move to go clear across the world but if he was interested in that i bet there is still some juice for him you know or if he wants to stick around and dominate aaa. I'm fine with that too. Because that means he'd come through to round rock when when they faced. Texas is minor league. Which i'm blanking on what it is right now. What does texas minor league houston has has round rock. So i'm just trying to think of. I don't know everything. Got jumbled so it's hard to know because everything got got mixed up this this past year. Anyway with the teams being cut and everything consolidating. So i have no idea at this point but it doesn't matter love. Chris davis has a player. Wish him the best. I am concerned that We've seen the last of him as anything. You know us wait. I'm idiot round. Rock is the rangers. Now they lost houston so if he does go to then i can go watch them so i'm actually okay..
Fantasy Focus Baseball
"byron buxton" Discussed on Fantasy Focus Baseball
"A fair point. Yeah and i it. Does the name rings in my mind here. Why would you do that. Except that. he's he is an amazing contact. Alburto is as well. He's historically been one of the best contact hitter so i i'm not sure why this is. It's it's very puzzling. You think one of them would fall into one. Walk at some point and it's going to be problematic there. I think he's the one who i would worry about pitchers walking around in that causing a needed adjustment. How can the yankees keep playing a guy who's not a left fielder and is not a good hitter every day. Oh you know the answer to that. They don't have anybody else know me to just do anything they can. They're the yankees are grasping at straws at this point. They're having problems in centerfield. They're throwing chris ginza of first base. Because they can't figure out that position they need to get somebody new in the line of getting some clutch hits and clutch hits. Drive lineup mittens. If that's okay with you. I like it better than hard. Hit and chris gittens because that's stealing somebody else's nickname arden. Who mittens. is there. Anything there with mittens i mean. Would you add him in. A league is one of my legs already. If it's a nail only i'd say go ahead i'm not not remotely and otherwise i watched each of the at bats wasn't overwhelmed. He's not a bad player. It's just. I need to see some proof that the major league level. I modest. He's back on the injured list. Here's my shocked face. I you know. Like i don't know what people expect here. I mean it's different injury than the last one was oblique now hamstring. He's always hurt and he's exciting. I wanted to play. But this is byron. Buxton like at this point right. This is a guy. Can't stay on the field but when he's on the field you can't stop watching now. Buxton is going. I think on a rehab assignment this week and he could be back within a week. Twins are still in trouble. Bite with modesty like league in steals. But it can't do it playing seventy games. This season disappointing. Yeah these a really exciting player. And it's the unfortunate pattern. We keep bringing up. I should have just said no comment off the bat. Because i've already said my piece for years over trade form. Don't don't don't be that guy or gal who trades from honesty or buxton and says oh they'll be healthy for me. They won't be healthy for you and they'll treat for aaron judge. I'm sorry when you always hurt and has healthy today. i'm not trying to wish anything. This is no jinx when he gets hurt. It'll be not because of me saying it it'll be because he's always hurt but like riddled players are brittle for reason. They don't get healthier as they get older. So just be careful yeah. Health is a skill wave. Senate many poor. Evan longoria he was having a great season I know yes now. It's going to be out four to six weeks and you can't keep him around in. Espn standard league. I don't think notes don't right. They're they're very good year. Good not great player at the stage of his career but there are so many more important players to put on your i l. spots just the fact sorry. What do you make a cedric. Mohan's we discussed him or any oriented show but mean senator. Mohan's i'm not surprised. He stealing basis. Because i remember. I bid a few dollars on him might have been last year. Tout and i got nothing but his nine home run. His nine home runs and nine steals with a good walkway and he's growing runs he's hitting for average and it's not all bab and cedric moans. Looks like a star. And i did not expect to be saying that but i mean how many he's on pace for twenty five and twenty five at least with a three hundred average thank right. What's the at three twenty. Something three twenty two and i mean i. It sounds crazy but everything he's doing right now. Looks legitimate. And i'm trying to do a cop here to like how many twenty five twenty five guys are even out. The he kind of falls on the statistical range of michael brantley with more speed. Obviously he has more in that in that period of bradley's career. I think the raw speed is better. Yeah i would agree with that. And i don't think the powers quite to the extent that brand lay's was but statistically today where he's tracking bradley out a couple of years where we still it. He's still twenty three one year. But i don't know i mean i think bradley was a guy with a even walk for a while. I'm trying to think of somebody who like i. I view moans as like a two sixty two seventy or so. I could be totally off base there but I think i would be giving him this starling marseille. This is startling martin. Now that's see that's the other. Well okay. I see where you're going with the steals and the deals it might be forty steals. It might be at twenty homer this twenty homer forty steel guy. That's crazy. This is the thing with martin. He's he's inverted in the plate discipline. He's a little better at avoiding bad pitches. I'm not gonna say he's a big time walker. He is so far martinez wings at everything mullins not so much mullins. Better contact morte does. It's it's not a.
ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP
"byron buxton" Discussed on ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP
"Welcome back in like a little bulls because they're actually playing today isn't over Those days you got the White Sox, Cubs, Blackhawks and Bulls all playing As the Blackhawks have their first of their penultimate game. I was like using that word because I didn't know what it meant for the longest time. They're penultimate game, which means the next the last. Thanks for that. Yes, they played Dallas tonight at six. The Bulls are in Detroit at seven o'clock, the White Sox and Kansas City of 1 10. We got the game for you here at ESPN 1000 pregame, beginning with Jeff Miller at 12 30, the Cubs. Hosting Pittsburgh weather permitting at 1 20 on the marquee network, then Hawks play tomorrow and then the Sox Cubs in Bulls are all off. So it's one of those days where everybody's playing, and so we'll talk a little bit of bulls basketball. They got some things going on and joke. Ali had an interesting angle. It is column today in the Sun Times. But Lucas Giolito goes for the white sacks today and she Lido has struggled a little bit the Saxon not done really well and some of his outings this year they haven't given up a lot of run support, either. Even cats was on the pregame show the other day. And, um, talking about working with Giolito and some of the things she's trying to get done. I done a lot of stuff digging in between his last outing and what's going on, and I had our guys run some numbers, so I wanted to show him where he was That and one like you take out the Boston game. He's been throwing the ball exceptionally well and then to what could be doing better with right now. Compared to where this stuff was the last year location wise, there's some thoughts from improvement. I pointed that out to him. That's something that he worked really Dylan Julian's bullpen yesterday. It was really good, so we have some stuff that we're working on behind the scenes, but he's throwing the ball well. One game is not defined what he's done so far this year. Now there was a game of two outings ago where It appeared LaRussa left middle over too long. And after the game Jeez, ladles gas. He said. Yeah, I was out of you know, I was out of whatever, um He said. It would've been nice if LaRussa knew that he didn't apparently. And so do you. Tell him or just the manager. Come and say, how are you? Well, LaRussa said. I should have that's on me. Then he goes. I should have seen that he was out of gas. And I didn't And But if you're the picture, there's nothing you can always say. Listen, Come on out. I'm done, You know, Let him know. Yes, that you're pitching coach. No. Let someone let your textured Wall Street Fred. You could let him know It's not a pride thing Don't don't worry about, you know, coming out, and that's it. That's a good point to the catcher. Should you know Collins or whoever? I don't remember who it was that but but that's part of the catcher's job. Sure, you know, to know how how they're doing Once he sees it, he could just tell the guy so. Hey, I don't don't blame that's not all that LaRussa literacy took the blame for that, and a lot of people then said all along, he screwed up again. Okay. You can play that game if you wanted to. But Jill leaders gotta let him know what it's funny because we got a guy leave Lucas Giolito. He can go 11, 10, 1 15, And in that game, he went 114 pitches I think he threw And the weird part was he gave up a hit that they were that losing At 1 10, and then they left him in to throw away. Four more pitches is like, okay, you could have pulled him at that point. You saw that He was out of out of gas. At that point, the leads to go on. You're not keeping him in to get a victory, or anything s Oh, that was a little bizarre. But I'm eager to see today's outing because the Royals have lost seven in a row. And I'm listening to the pre game yesterday and Jeff Miller of the pre game and then when the game started with Conner McKnight And DJ. They're also talking that sometimes playing a team that's lost seven in a role. Is more difficult than playing team that's gonna winning streak because in baseball, you're bound to win a game. Okay, You've dropped seven in a row. It's do. Yeah, My dad would always say there do you know, and when the teams won six or seven and roll They're do. They're due for a loss. Okay, The Cubs have won five straight. They're playing Pittsburgh again. Today. You expect that comes to get a victory. Kyle Hendricks on the hill. But you don't know it goes that way. You know, not many teams win. Have huge, long winning streaks. That's why you know it. Zilong season you're gonna have, you know, absent flows throughout the whole thing. So I'm eager to see how Julietta does today because They could use a nice outing from him today, and then they get tomorrow off and then a huge then he got Minnesota coming in, and Minnesota is struggling right now. Minnesota good to see their tweet while 12 and 20 and they've got injuries there, center fielder Byron Buxton went out. So he's hurt. So you know, take advantage when you can you had starting Friday was 13 straight games against the Royals and the Twins. Hey, time to make a you know, get Hey, time to make a I see what she says. I didn't do it on purpose s O. The White Sox right now or five games over 518 and 13. And other half game had a Cleveland Kansas City's 2.5 back after their hot start. The Twins are 6.5 back in Detroit. It's way the heck down there, and that's you know, they come to get to play Cleveland and Detroit. After they wrap up their series today, so but watching cheerleader today will be interesting. I like to see grand. I'll hit the ball a little bit after four walks. I know he got a bases on base percentage. Just keep going up up up. That's a nice thing, But yeah, getting look if the pictures are there He's got a He's got to start hitting. We need him. Yeah. Are you believe right now? I mean, we're doing pretty well. But you know, people are going to get hot and cold. Sure, so we need everybody. Now to the Forbes thing I was going to talk about if you want to jump in. Still talk baseball jump in. We're gonna talk some bulls in a little bit. Forbes came out with their top 50 world's most valuable franchises. They do this, like every year they come up with and for the 60 year in a row. I think it is the Dallas Cowboys are the most valuable franchise not just in the U. S in the world in the world, I thought I thought some of the soccer franchises worm or valuable than the Cowboys. The Cowboys are worth because that's our international sports. I mean, everybody appreciates football. I think you know many out of this country, but they play only in the states. Okay, so this is the Forbes top 50. The Cowboys and number 1 55.7. Billion is what their their franchises and but Jerry Jones can't afford to hire any help. Yes, he wants to do everything but you know what you just said, is what I would have thought. You know, soccer international all this kind of stuff. Out of the.
Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
Oakland Athletics Extend Winning Streak to 11 Games
"The oakland athletics are rolling. But any winning streak usually contains at least one comeback. Maybe two or yesterday the as pull up one of the best comebacks. You're going to see this year against the twins. The two sides hammered away at each other for nine innings. Lead changing hands repeatedly. It was ten all going into extra innings and then in the top of the tenth inning byron buxton came to the plate of the twins first pitch swing a fly ball left center field and deep beckett goes deep. It goes and gone adding to that day. What was good is now even better a tenth inning. Two run blast from buxton and the twins have a twelve ten lead in the tent at the coliseum court on the treasure island baseball network so the twins you feeling good about it at that point Salvaging the last game of this series than oakland. Athletics loaded the bases against alex column. May of the tenth inning two outs and this happened here comes the old one pitch weekly hit on the right side to his left. The rookie bubbles it drops it does blakenhorn kicks it. Everybody is safe chap at his home. It's a twelve game so oakland with a faint heartbeat. Dad point he thought the game was over. but no ramon on came to the plate. Had a heck cabinet bad. He's fallon off. Pitches left and right and then this happened and the one to swung bounce. The third base arise has it across the field. He throws away. He throws it away as one at capital hall to errors in the by. Wins at the as winning streak. Is that eleven incredible
Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
Mets' deGrom, Cubs' Rizzo dealing with back issues
"Cubs first Baseman Anthony Rizzo is. Is Getting Mariah after missing a week. He's been dealing with Baxter. This something that's been has bothered him in the past. Minnesota twins center fielder Byron Buxton has a left-foot mid foot sprain. In his day to day. The team announced on Tuesday for the Rangers really bad luck so far there catcher Robinson. Torino's could miss started the season after rolling his ankle a workout Monday and there are awaiting MRI results on outfielder Willie Calhoun who's dealing with tightness in his right hip flexor. New York. York mets pitcher Jacob degrom left his squad stored on Tuesday after just one inning and this was because of back tightness, according to the team,
Dan Barreiro
Minnesota Twins relieved Buxton's left foot injury just a sprain
"Byron. Buxton was injured last night. Dan didn't believe me when I brought it at like five fifty five I. Don't know what they were doing at target field if they were doing and inner squad scrimmage or whatever it was yesterday, I wasn't at the shoot around I. Don't know if you're at the shoot around no I I'm. I'm sitting there and I'm going through twitter and I think it was Dan Hays from the athletic who had at first and then everybody kind of followed suit of your gleaming video of yes, yeah, and at first somebody actually it was John Shipley had it first and mentioned that he thought Buxton got hurt running into the wall, which turned out to be incorrect, he corrected that pretty quickly, but for a moment there you already can't make it up. No, it was almost like you really can't make it up by him. Running into a wall turns out. He got his foot basically caught in the Turf Yup was carted off. And it's a left mid foot sprain. He is listed as day today. It's amazing. It's amazing. Man and it's just so weird because. Every good prospect that we've ever that we've been really excited. About has just been okay or been derailed by injuries