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This week, host Darragh McDonald is joined by Anthony Franco of MLB Trade Rumors to discuss…
- The Red Sox and Rafael Devers seemingly quarreling over the first base situation (1:30)
- The Pirates firing manager Derek Shelton (16:00)
- The Rockies firing manager Bud Black (21:35)
- The Diamondbacks calling up prospect Jordan Lawlar (26:55)
Plus, we answer your questions, including…
- Should the Orioles try to extend Cedric Mullins or Tomoyuki Sugano (35:05)
- How real are the Twins and the Tigers? (39:00)
- What should the Cardinals do in right field if Jordan Walker doesn’t get going? (44:50)
- Why do the Mets seemingly do better with external pitching additions than their homegrown arms? (49:25)
Check out our past episodes!
- Replacing Triston Casas, A Shakeup In Texas, And The Blue Jays’ Rotation – listen here
- Mailbag: Red Sox, Alonso, Tigers, Tanking, And More! – listen here
- Justin Steele, Triston McKenzie, And Tons Of Prospect Promotions – listen here
The podcast intro and outro song “So Long” is provided courtesy of the band Showoff. Check out their Facebook page here!
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Megill and Peterson are solid and the Mets have a huge pipeline of pitching talent what an odd question
And the Mets developed Zack Wheeler.
And Senga’s first MLB team is the Mets.
“Should the Orioles try to extend Cedric Mullins or Tomoyuki Sugano?”
Don’t know if you guys heard, but recently Mullins agents called the O’s to talk about an extension and were put off.
In fact, up till June, 2024 the O’s had a 1-3 ranked W-L record in all of the majors. Then the FO started dumping the veterans. The vets figured out what was going on, and the O’s played .500 ball the rest of the season. In the offseason they dumped some more of their vets, and took on cheaper vets were dumped by their previous teams and had done nothing to lead the O’s to 101 wins in 2023 and the early 2024 record.
During the offseason the O’s FO dumped more of their vets that had been with the team for years. To refresh, The O’s new FO did a total dump of a rebuild losing 115 games and 108 games in 2018-19……in their history the O’s never lost over 100 games. The veterans they started to dump in mid-2024 and will continue to through the season and offseason, were young players that had made them contenders in 2023. What’s conical is that a few weeks ago Baltimore sports media said the problem with their falling apart in 2025 was: “The lack of veteran Leadership”. LOL
ML teams are full of human beings. Both MLBTR and the O’s FO need to get their heads out of the spreadsheets and realize that.
Imagine George Steinbrenner dealing with Devers? He’d have shipped him to Colorado for saying he wouldn’t play first.
Steinbrenner would never have hired a POBO who wasn’t an unable-to-communicate, holier-than-thou dunce that made this an issue in the first place.
If Steinbrenner would have had to fly to KC to talk to Devers himself, both Cora and Breslow (the two guys he hired to speak for him) would have been thrown out of the Visiting Clubhouse in KC by Steinbrenner himself.
Troy – I didn’t see your post until after I posted mine, you are 100% correct! This mess was totally self-inflicted.
One of the many things people don’t get, Cora had the sensibility to refuse to ask Devers about first base. That’s because Cora knew how outrageous that was after they told him to throw away his glove because he’s too incompetent to even fill in for Bregman.
So either Cora was playing Good Cop to Breslow’s Bad Cop, or Cora was shirking his responsibility as a manager and dumping it on Breslow’s lap.
Either way, Cora obviously knew that asking Devers about playing first base was a very bad idea. And Breslow either didn’t know, or he knew and didn’t care.
Clip – That would have happened after George fired the manager that told Devers he is an “excellent fielder” and promised he wasn’t being moved and told him to burn his glove ;O)
“Abreu is a fine outfielder” but yeah let’s take a look at first. He won the gold glove in right field last year… come on guys, that’s just brain dead. Anthony is probably suited to play first, and I wouldn’t be surprised if he started taking reps there. You’re not moving a gold glove outfielder to first.