In Episode 431, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about cough syrup and porrly shucked oysters, and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. I'm already in the book three or four times: Saying farewell to Rickey 2. Last-minute Christmas shopping: Man, there sure were a lot of free agent signings all of the sudden 3. I just wan't something I can …

In Episode 430, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about nostalgia for mid-2000s hipster rock, MST3K, and Homestar Runner, and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. Tuck Everlasting?: Kyle Tucker is traded to the Cubs in a trade that both makes sense and doesn't make sense for both teams. 2. Trading Places: The Yankees stay active on the trade…

In Episode 429, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig update you on Craig's travel plans and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. Straight Cash, Homie: Brian Cashman splashes the pot for a...starting pitcher? Trading Places: Three pretty big trades cap off the winter meetings Rumor Has It: What are the Astros doing? (Turns out trading Kyle Tucker but mo…

In Episode 428, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about Craig's trip to Dallas and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. Smoke your green, I'm spending mine: Childish Bambino calls his shot and it's the New York Mets for a record-setting deal. There is no such thing as a free agency: All the other non-record-setting deals If you hear any noise i…

In Episode 427, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about holiday cleaning and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. There is no such thing as a free agency: The market is moving...slowly 2. The Golden At-Bat: Yeah, we have to talk about it. Spoiler Alert: It's dumb 3. Rumor Has It: The Royals have plans and Juan Soto's plans are still undeterm…

In Episode 426, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig mention out some pielights and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. Fuck it, we're doing five blades: The Dodgers sign Blake Snell, because why not? 2. The Angels have two blades: The Angels sign Yusei Kikuchi, why? 3. A Good Trade Leaves Everyone Mad: The Royals and Reds swap players that are pro…

Before it's time to start breaking down some prospect lists, Nathan and Smith check in on whose been hot in the Arizona Fall League.بقلم Bret Sayre

Sometimes in the Arizona Fall League you see a desert mirage. No that's too cliche. AFL performance is as easy to grasp as a handful of sand. That's not much better. It's been a while, friends.بقلم Bret Sayre

In Episode 425, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about the benefits of a BP subscription and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. Say It Is Soto: Where we stand on the free agency of one Childish Bambino 2. Life is too Short to Spend the Rest of it Down Here in Tampa: Where we stand on the Rays stadium situation both now and in the future. …

In Episode 424, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig indulge in some (advent calendar) coffee chat and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. The Postman Only Rings Twice: Roki Sasaki is being posted, eventually. 2. There is No Such Thing as a Free Agency: 50 free agents, ranked 3. Television Man, I Know What You Are Trying to Be: Diamond Sports is st…

In Episode 423, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about sprinkler systems and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. We Dug Cole Together: Catching up on what actually happened with Gerrit Cole's opt out 2. To Catch a Rising Free Agent Star: What's a worse sign for Scott Boras, the Yankees calling his bluff or the quality of this year's one-li…

In Episode 422, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about Christmas lights and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. We Dug Cole together: A cannier podcast would wait until the Cole opt out was sorted to do a segment on it. This is not that podcast 2. For Whom the Bellinger Tolls: Like (spoiler alert) Gerrit Cole, Cody Bellinger will be stayin…

In Episodes 420 and 421, Patrick, Jeffrey, and (eventually) Craig discuss nine mostly baseball topics in between fighting with Tempe, AZ wifi. I was a Freeman in Paris, I felt unfettered and alive: The Dodgers strike first in Game 1, thanks to the first of several weird Yankees tactical moves. Helplessly hoping, her harlequin hovers nearby: Dodgers…

In Episode 419, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. The Judges of Normality are Present Everywhere: Before the preview, there's the discourse. 2. The World Series Preview: Well, who ya got? 3. Fernandomania: The Dodgers lost one of their franchise icons this week 4. Around the Horn: Some potential postings and some a…

In Episode 418, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about advent calendars (and the coffee that sometimes comes inside them) and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. Theeeeeeeee Yankees Win: Juan Soto is a tough out, and the Guardians made too many easy outs. 2. I am the Edman, coo-coo-cachoo: The Dodgers turn the Grimace Shake meme back on th…

In Episode 417, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. Unhappy Meal: The Dodgers take the Mets lunch at Citi Field. You might say they've been hamburgled. 2. Christmas Creep: The Guards and Yanks play an instant classic, as Cleveland hangs around thanks to some big bombs. 3. Here we are now, going to the South Side...no…

In Episode 416, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about weekend Fall excursions and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. Playing Catch Up: The league did not consult our pod schedule for their playoff schedule, so we have a bit of catching up to do. 2. Escape from LA: The Mets head back home with a split, but did we learn more about the Dodg…

In Episode 415, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about cold sweats and horror movies (not related) and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. Purple October: The Mets move on, and the Philles (well mostly their fans) are flailing a bit for an explanation 2. Royal Pains: The Garrett Hampson led KC offense could overcome the Yankees. We're as s…

In Episode 414, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig indulge in some more coffee chat and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. Split-Split-Split-Splitadelphia: The Mets/Phillies series is as chaotic as we (well two of us) could have hoped. 2. Stay Class...everyone involved: Meanwhile the Dodgers/Padres series is just a mess. 3. Central Planning: Tig…

In Episode 413, a very tired Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about the waning of the British Empire I guess and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. Ooh, baby, baby, it's a wild card: Recapping what we learned from the Wild Card Series and where the eliminated teams go from here. 2. ALDS Preview 3. NLDS Preview 4. Around the Horn: Some sur…

In part two of Episode 412, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig discuss five more mostly baseball topics. 1. Like Confetti how it falls, let ‘em leave with it all: Game 163 was really game 161 and 162, but even more chaotic than that sounds. 2. Pete Rose died. 3. Mets/Brewers Wild Card Preview 4. Braves/Padres Wild Card Preview 5. Some very brief Giants fr…

In part one of Episode 412, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about breakfast and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. The Last Day of School: Are the weird and wild stuff from the not-actually last day of the season. 2. Here We Are Now, Going to the Southside: Only the second most infuriating owner letter of the week. 3. Tigers/Astros Wild …

In Episode 411, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about playing video games with the kids and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. Here I Am, Rock You Like a Hurricane: We may not have a Game 163 anymore, but you get a bonus 161 and 162 on Monday. 2. The Tigers Have Spoken: Detroit is in the driver's seat for an AL Wild Card spot, somehow. 3…

In Episode 410, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about bedtime footwear and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. FRAUD WATCH: The entire AL Wild Card race is on fraud watch, except you Detroit, you're cool. For now. 2. Fifty is Nifty: Ohtani makes some history, again. 3. The cardinal rule is to keep them playing and to keep them coming back…

The minor league season may be coming to an end, but there is no stopping the Heat Check. Smith and Nathan once again drop in to check on some prospects finishing the season with a flourish.بقلم Bret Sayre

In Episode 409, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig settle all Brewers business and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. Natty BohNo: The Orioles remain in free fall, and Craig Kimbrel may have tumbled out of Hall of Fame consideration. 2. Ooh baby, baby, it's a wild card: The Twins are also in free fall and now have the Tigers in a dead heat for t…

In Episode 408, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about youth sports and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. Not Everybody Gets to Go To Space, and That's Okay: Not everybody gets to go the playoffs either, and some teams are struggling to get there more than others. 2. How to Get to Heaven from Fort Myers, FL: One of the weirder baseball t…

In Episode 407, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat NCAA conferences and proper use of idoms and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. Anger Management: Anthony Banda broke his hand punching a wall, this is maybe a more complicated story than first blush 2. Pax Romana: James Paxton hangs up the cleats. 3. Around the Horn: some very late-season …

In Episode 406, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. Wake Me Up When September Ends: Three teams staring out the window and waiting for the offseason. 2. St. Paul 'aints: The Twins are trying to make the AL Wild Card an actual playoff race. 3. Around the Horn: Six gets deep-sixed, a lot of pitchers are targeting a lat…

In Episode 405, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about extremly complicated coffee and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. Playoffs? PLAYOFFS?! I just hope we can win a game: The AL East race stays tight (due in large part to Wyatt Langford) while the NL Wild Card race tightens up. But mostly the Yankees just can't be normal. 2. This is ho…

With the minor league season wrapping up, Smith and Nathan are back to check up on the prospects making a strong last impression.بقلم Bret Sayre

In Episode 404, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. Wake Me Up When September Ends: We examine the state of play heading into the last month of the season. 2. Call Me (Call Me) On The Line: Chase Anderson (!) and others get the September call-up, plus, another Angels rant. 3. Around the Horn: We check in on some inju…

In Episode 403, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about dessert bread, baseball card shops, and robot toddlers and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. 22 Short Films about Springfield: So much can happen across one day of baseball. But the White Sox will probably lose, sometimes twice. 2. August and Everything After: Another pick'em but thi…

In Episode 402, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about Saberseminar and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. Judge, Jury, and Executioner of Middle-Middle Pitches: Aaron Judge had a good weekend, as did the very boring 2024 Yankees. Plus the inside scoop on his Paw Patrol spin-off appearance. 2. August and Everything After: After chiding Cr…

In Episode 401, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about a Quantrill/Corbin showdown and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. Hey, Joey-Joe-Joe: Joey Votto retires 2. House of Cards: St. Louis takes a weird approach to the last 30 games of the season. 3. Around the Horn: Pitchers on the move, and a new Mariners manager that Patrick has some t…

In Episode 400, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat Golden Triangle poety (again maybe?) and the outdoor life and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. Simply the Best: Somebody has to be the best team in baseball this year, but no one seems to want to be. Also the White Sox somehow come up in this segment. 2. The Sixth Inning Stretch: Since Pa…

In Episode 399, Jeffrey and Craig chat about coffee and Ritz crackers and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. No Home on the Range: I don't know if everything is actually bigger in Texas, but the podcast sure is when we talk about Texas. 2. The Guys Have It: What if we made a whole segment out of our guys 3. Around the Horn: Jeffrey is not…

In Episode 398 Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about the EFL Championship and shooting free throws and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. Merrill-y We Roll Along: Jackson Merrill is carrying the Padres to the top of the NL Wild Card picture, will that mean he's tops for NL Rookie of the Year as well? 2. Central Planning: The AL Central r…

In Episode 397, Patrick and Jeffrey have one false start, one Cotton-Eyed Joe conversation, and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. Natty B'OHNO: The Orioles have a pitching problem and also maybe a philosophical problem. 2. Do You Know How the West Was Won?: The Dodgers continue to be an annoying 95-win team instead of a 105-win team, and…

In Episode 396, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig all have banter to dispense with and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. Is it Always Sunny in Philadelphia: The Phillies are scuffling, obviously this is the worst thing ever to happen to Phillies fans ever. 2. Snell-O-Vision: Yeah, it's time for no-hitter chat again, but also what is next for t…

Prospects have been on the move for the last week, but the BP Prospect Team is still here to tell you who is hot as we head towards the end of the minor league season.بقلم Bret Sayre

In Episode 395, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about Minecraft: The Card Game and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. Now I Wish I Could Freeze Time at Seventeen: But the White Sox have to play another 50 games or so. 2. Hi Everyody! Hi Dr. Cash!: So what's up with Jack Flaherty's medicals anyway. 3. Around the Horn: The Orioles sort thr…

In Episode 394, Jeffrey, Patrick, and Craig discuss a very busy MLB trade deadline.بقلم Bret Sayre

In Episode 393, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about trade deadline time dilation and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. FRAUD WATCH: We had to bring it back after the Mariners got swept by the Angles (yes we recorded before the Randy Arozarena trade), but the Astros, Yankees, and Braves may not be beating the faud allegations either. 2…

In Episode 392, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about salad cream and lemon hockey and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. It's One Playoff Race Michael, What Can it Cost, Ten Games: We regret to inform you the Mariners are at it again. 2. What's Got Into That Cat: The Pirates a re frisky again, and this year that's enough to have some Wi…

Smith and Nathan are joined by members of the BP Prospect Team to discuss the Midseason 50 prospect list.بقلم Bret Sayre

In Episode 391, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about Elden Ring strategies and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. Here we are now, going to the South Side: I don't know how Martin Maldonado became a podcast cocnern, but theirs some concerning Martin Maldonado news. 2. Hey now, there was an All-Star Game: A recap of the goings on in Arli…

In Episode 390, Jeffrey fills Patrick and Craig in on his weekend and then they discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. Whoa-oh, we're halfway there: Discourse on whether this is actually the halfway point of the season aside, let's check in on the top teams and players of the first half, and attempt some mildly spicy takes on where we go from here…

In Episode 389, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about vacation outdoor walking tour escape rooms and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. Wake Me Up When September Ends (yes we know it's Mid-July): The Dodgers are really putting to the test how much one doesn't have to care about the regular season. 2. A Late Quartet: Four older players ha…

In Episode 388, Jeffrey and Craig bring back coffee chat in Patrick's absence and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. And is your star sign ever wrong: Yeah, it's time to talk All-Star Game selections. Also, Craig works in his annual Futures Game rant after saying he's not going to rant about it this year. 2. Sitting Here in Blue Jay Way: …