Baseball Isn’t Boring

As part of the lengthy conversation Bradfo had with Rich Hill recently, the subject of surprisingly landing in San Diego came up. Hill goes into great detail about how he found out his new home would be with the Padres and the thoughts he had on joining his 13th big league organization. To listen to the entire Rich Hill podcast, click here.

Every once in a while baseball has a bench-clearing brawl that separates itself from the others. That was the case with Roughned Odor punching Jose Bautista, and it surfaced again Saturday with Jose Ramirez's clocking of Tim Anderson. Longtime Cleveland radio man Tom Hamilton helped define the moment with an epic call of the melee, which is why we wanted to surface Hamilton's excellence while brea...

Want to know what life is really like after a Trade Deadline? Listen to former Marlin, Yankee and Red Sox Mike Lowell chop it up with Bradfo in this piece of Lowell's extended sit-down. This is must-listen material for all those wondering how impactful trades can be. To listen to the entire Lowell podcast, click here.

Rich Hill is now playing for his 13th organization after being dealt to the San Diego Padres at the Trade Deadline. Hill got his priorities straight as always - flying across the country to his new club and immediately jumping on the BIB podcast once at his hotel. Rich doesn't disappoint, joining Bradfo to reflect on how he found himself with the Padres, what life was like during the Deadline and...

When Jake Diekman and Kyle Snyder came on the podcast, both explained the secret behind the Rays bringing out the best in pitchers. Then Ryan Brasier popped on Baseball Isn't Boring to detail how the Dodgers' suggestion of integrating a cutter turned his fortunes around. Now we have Joe Kelly's return to Los Angeles. In his most recent appearance on the podcast, Kelly explains what the Dodgers hav...

Former Yankee, Marlin and Red Sox Mike Lowell knows a little something about big league clubhouses and teams before and after a Trade Deadline, having seen the impact of deals and non-deals during his 13-year career. Lowell joins Bradfo to discuss some of his experiences, including the 2003 acquisition of Paul Lo Duca, Eric Gagne going to the Red Sox in 2007 and the chaos that circulated the Red S...

When we hear a good interview with a head decision maker in MLB, we share it with you, the people... That is why we wanted to surface this BIB on the Go of Rangers GM Chris Young's appearance on Audacy's Dallas Fort Worth Radio Station 105.3 The Fan's show "Gbag Nation" to discuss the new look, post-trade deadline Texas Rangers roster

Plenty of players switched teams over the last week, but only one is the Godfather of the Baseball Isn't Boring movement - Joe Kelly. Kelly joins Bradfo to reflect on his last week, including the days leading up to the trade to the Dodgers, the actual day of the deal, what it has been like returning to Los Angeles and some surprises along the way. As always, Joe doesn't disappoint.

The Cubs started July looking like they were most certainly on the path to becoming sellers at the Trade Deadline. A few weeks later it seemingly was only getting worse. But by the time August rolled around Jed Hoyer and Co. found themselves in position to make an aggressive move in the trade market, while holding on to some players who would be coveted at the Deadline. Bradfo and our friends at 6...

After months of talk, speculation and podcasts, the Trade Deadline has finally come and gone. We felt it was only fitting some sort of punctuation was given to one of the most important days of the Major League Baseball season, which is why Bradfo, Sammy and Producer Evan got together to define who were the winners of the Deadline, and who came away perceived as the losers. It was a wild ride that...

Bradfo joins the Greg Hill Show to discuss what the Red Sox plans are as we move closer and closer to the 2023 MLB Trade Deadline!

This MLB Trade Deadline has already been wild and unpredictable, thanks in part to the wild and unpredictable nature of the MLB standings and teams. Bradfo sets the scene for one of the season's key moments - Deadline Day - looking back at lessons from last year and digesting what's what when it comes to this season's unpredictable nature.

The Weekly BIB Power Rankings with Producer Evan and Skiff are here! Notable teams on the outside looking in include the Angels, Yankees, Brewers, and Marlins, all of whom are buyers at the deadline and consider themselves contenders in 2023. Multiple teams have made substantial leaps due to their recent successes while others slide down the list due to rather weak performances in the past week......

There is the excitement of watching your team make bold Trade Deadline moves in an attempt for a postseason run, and then there is ... being linked to the sellers. Courtney Finnicum - the voice of the White Sox fans - jumps back in on the podcast to offer valuable perspective of what life is like for those fans having to hang their hats on minor-leaguers and thoughts of 2024. Let's just say this:...

You know all the names coming back to the contenders. Lucas Giolito. David Robertson. Lance Lynn. Aroldis Chapman. Max Scherzer. Jordan Hicks. But do you know the minor-leaguers who are being exchanged for these guys? Well, Sam Dykstra of MLB Pipeline is here to tell you who is who when it comes to the future of these franchises, and which teams got the best prospects in this flurry of trades.

As part of the recent podcast where Bradfo sits down with current Dodgers reliever Ryan Brasier, the pitcher goes into detail how he found his recent success after his new team simply said he needed to start throwing a pitch he had never thrown - a cutter. To listen to the entire podcast, click here.

Shohei Ohtani. Ronald Acuna Jr. Corbin Carroll. Gerrit Cole. They are all seemingly running away with their respective end-of-the-year awards. But one category that is very much up for grabs is the American League Rookie of the Year. It's made even more interesting by the sudden presence of Red Sox first baseman Triston Casas, who is coming on strong despite still living life at +3000. Bradfo sits...

There was Lucas Giolito. There was David Robertson. Now there is Max Scherzer. The big deals are coming fast and furious, and Bradfo is reacting. We dissect exactly what happened with Scherzer going from the Mets to the Rangers, what it means for both teams and what it says about the market. Sometimes - as last year's Deadline showed - the prospects coming back who you never heard of can be pretty...

There are plenty of examples of reclamation projects throughout baseball, with the Rays and Dodgers oftentimes being the teams finding the secret sauce to fix players - particularly pitchers. The latest example is former Red Sox and current Dodger Ryan Brasier, who has been absolutely dominant for Los Angeles after being released by Boston. How? Why? Well, Brasier joined Bradfo to explain exactly...

The player who helped launch the Baseball Isn't Boring campaign, Joe Kelly, has been traded to the Dodgers. It seemed only fitting that Bradfo would offer an instant reaction to the deal, including sound from another podcast he was taping with Dodgers reliever Ryan Brasier while both were finding out in real-time that the trade was going down.

It was one of the bigger moves of the 2022 Trade Deadline, with longtime Royal Whit Merrifield finally moving on from Kansas City in a trade that sent him to Toronto, where he has had an All-Star season in 2023. Bradfo catches up with Merrifield for a quick reflection on everything he learned goes into being part of a Deadline deal.

The Trade Deadline action kept churning along with the Mets dealing reliever David Robertson to the Marlins for two teenagers. Robertson just happened to be one of the picks in the Baseball Isn't Boring Trade Deadline Draft, with Bradfo, Producer Evan, Sammy, Gordo and Pat predicting where all these rumored players are going to end up. It's the best way to prepare for one of the baseball's season'...

The Newest Atlanta Brave acquired via trade from the Colorado Rockies, Relief Pitcher Pierce Johnson sits down with Bradfo to give a behind-the-scenes look at what it is like to be dealt at the Trade Deadline and the sudden switch from pitching for a team that has no chance at the postseason to pitching for a team that is right in the thick of playoff contention and of course, forgetting your toot...

There haven't been many bigger Trade Deadline deals in recent years than Justin Verlander going to Houston in 2017. It's why getting the perspective of someone who was in that clubhouse at that time is so fascinating. Fortunately, Bradfo can draw on the experiences of a player who was in the middle of the chaos - Braves reliever Collin McHugh - to talk about that deal, along with all the intrigue...

The Trade Deadline is officially in full swing, with the Angels defining their intention on keeping Shohei Ohtani and going for a postseason berth with the late-night trade for Lucas Giolito and Reynaldo Lopez. Bradfo not only picks through that huge deal, continues the Deadline conversation with four more Trade Deadline Confessions - Collin McHugh, Pierce Johnson, Kenley Jansen and Richard Bleier...