Baseball Isn’t Boring

Kevin Cash is not only the manager of the most successful team in Major League Baseball this season, but he is also the second-longest tenured skipper in all of baseball despite being just 45 years old. Cash sits down with Bradfo to reveal the details of exactly how he was hired by Tampa Bay in late 2014, with some juicy details along the way. It's a great way to educate yourself when it comes to...

Jonathan Papelbon is back and back big. The former All-Star closer, and current Baseball Isn't Boring regular, makes his return, this time going head-to-head with Producer Evan in offering up MLB Power Rankings. Pap, Bradfo and Evan break down the Top 10 in the majors right now, with a few huge surprises along the way. And just for good measure, Pap reveals a couple of quality bullpen stories.

It seems like a good time to talk to Torey Lovullo. So that's exactly what Bradfo did. With the Diamondbacks sitting in first-place, and their manager just agreeing to a contract extension, the two sit down to talk about exactly how Lovullo got Arizona to believe in itself. For those wondering how The D-Backs turned the corner, it's a good one to listen to.

One day after leaving his start against the Reds with a left shoulder problem, Chris Sale met with the media to offer an update on his condition while laying out what happened and what might happen going forward.

Red Sox Chief Baseball Officer Chaim Bloom started his professional existence as an intern with the Rays back in 2005, a stretch that continued all the way until he was hired away by the Red Sox in 2019 to run their organization. Now Bloom sits down with Bradfo to talk about what exactly makes the Rays the envy of the rest of Major League Baseball.

It's always a good time when Joey Votto and Chaim Bloom come on the podcast, which is exactly what happened with the future Hall-of-Famer and the Red Sox Chief Baseball Officer making their respective returns to Baseball Isn't Boring with Bradfo. As a bonus, Votto's appearance is led in by a major leaguer who idolized the Reds star, rookie Triston Casas. Votto talks his view of baseball. Bloom tal...

From 'The PBP: Voices of Baseball' ( subscribe here ): In Matt Spiegel's debut of The PBP: Voices of Baseball, he is joined by a voice familiar to any baseball fan. Before moving to ESPN's Monday Night Football, Joe Buck called 24 World Series as the preeminent national voice of baseball. His dad, Jack, is in the National Baseball Hall of Fame after many years of calling St. Louis Cardinals games...

In just his second week in the majors, Reds infielder Matt McLain took home Player of the Week honors. Considering this is a player who was drafted in 2021, that's something. McLain joins Bradfo to talk about his rapid ascension from being the No. 17 overall pick two years ago while reflecting on advice he might give those ready to be put in his shoes. It's the timeliest of Baseball Isn't Boring o...

Nothing supplies the jumper cables to a Major League Baseball fan base like the idea of a top prospect coming up to the big leagues for a jolt of excitement and production. It's why Bradfo sits down with MLB Pipleline's Sam Dykstra to dissect what has happened when it comes to prospect promotion and which future stars are the not-too-distant horizon. One of the names mentioned is Reds infielder Ma...

The voting for this year's MLB All-Star Game is officially underway, leading Bradfo to not only vote for the players he deems deserving of a trip to Seattle, but also explain his selections in an emergency Baseball Isn't Boring on the Go podcast.

Zac Gallen did it again. He dominated. And with his domination Tuesday night the Arizona starter continued to establish himself as one of the absolute best pitchers in baseball. Bradfo catches up with Gallen to talk about what it's like to be traded, the honor of Kevin Durant playing him in MLB The Show, how unusual Little League path formed his approach to his big league career and other items. H...

The voting for the Major League All-Star teams kicks off Wednesday at noon Eastern, which leads us to some good All-Star conversation. Bradfo sits down with both Red Sox outfielder Alex Verdugo and Arizona pitcher Zac Gallen to talk about what it would mean if they could call themselves All-Stars when the teams are selected for this year's event in Seattle. It's an open and honest Baseball Isn't B...

It has been a wild start to the new week. You have the former first overall pick Royce Lewis homering in the year anniversary of blowing out his knee. You have the return of Liam Hendricks, the White Sox closer who took the mound after his battle with cancer. And you have Producer Evan with perhaps the most controversial power rankings he has rolled out to date.

Only five teams in major professional sports have comeback from a 3-0 deficit in a best-of-seven series, four of them coming in the NHL and one in Major League Baseball. That one MLB occasion, of course, was the Red Sox' 2004 history-making team. Now the Celtics are on the brink of pulling it off, which led Red Sox manager Alex Cora to examine what it takes when coming back from such a series hole...

There are quite a few teams who have seemingly turned the corner into contention. The Orioles. The Pirates. The Marlins. And the Diamondbacks, who find themselves just 1 1/2 games behind the mighty Dodgers. Bradfo catches up with Arizona manager Torey Lovullo for a candid conversation regarding exactly how he has convinced his team that it can play with the big boy despite spending a fraction of t...

Just about an hour after Red Sox closer Kenley Jansen wrapped up his save against the Diamondbacks, the Celtics punctuated their Game 6 win the NBA Eastern Conference Finals with one of the most implausible finishes in recent sports history. Jansen, one of the biggest basketball fans in baseball, joined Bradfo to digest the hoop history.

Joe Ryan continues to dominate start in and start out this year for the Twins. He is currently Top 10 in the MLB in nearly every statistical category for pitchers and is climbing with every start he makes. Therefore, we felt as though it was important to sit down with the man himself and discuss the origins of his climb from an underrated piece of the puzzle to a Cy Young contender.

We have had plenty of talk about the good and bad of the new rule changes in Major League Baseball throughout the first few months of the 2023 season. But most can agree there need to be some adjustments. So what are they? Bradfo turns to agent Scott Boras for his thoughts on exactly what needs to be altered after digesting this new world of new rules. As you can imagine, it is some pointed and pa...

Less than two months after making an Opening Day start for the Red Sox, Corey Kluber is being sent to the bullpen. But what the podcast wanted to highlight was how Kluber handled the situation with the media and his teammate, presenting a masterclass within the situation. It's worth listening to Kluber on the day his baseball existence was turned inside-out.

It is a fascinating conversation with the author of a fascinating book: "The 1998 Yankees: The Inside Story of the Greatest Baseball Team Ever". Bradfo sits down with Jack Curry to discuss the ins and outs of the author's best-seller, chronicling the birth of the project, the previously-untold stories and the case for that Yankees team to be called better than any other. Curry and his book doesn't...

It would have been unthinkable just a week or so ago, but here it is: Our own Courtney Finnicum is declaring that the red-hot White Sox are making the postseason. At the time of Courtney's proclamation with Bradfo, the White Sox sit at nine games under .500 but only 5 1/2 games out of first-place, having won eight of their last 11 games. It's a bold take, but one that has some merit.

Tanner Houck has struck out Shohei Ohtani three times in five at-bats. He has whiffed Mike Trout half of the time he has faced him. But that doesn't mean the Red Sox pitcher doesn't pause every once in a while to appreciate the opportunity and the experience that comes with facing such Hall of Famers as those two. Houck sits down with Bradfo to talk about the importance of appreciating going throu...

Few on the planet know what it is like to be the first overall pick in the Major League Baseball Draft. But Mickey Moniak does, which is why Bradfo made a point of sitting down with the Angels outfielder to get his unique perspective on life as a top selection. The No. 1 guy in the 2016 Draft goes into great detail with Bradfo regarding the trials, tribulations and lessons that led him to this poi...

Colorado Rockies reliever Daniel Bard makes a return to the podcast, this time after going through a very unexpected roller coaster of a couple of months thanks to an uncomfortable appearance in the World Baseball Classic. Bard, who is one of the few athletes who has overcome the Yips, managed to fight back from the throwing issues one more time, offering another round of inspiration. Bard goes in...

Timing for a pitcher and hitter has never been more important thanks to the pitch timer. That's why pitching deliveries are getting funkier and funkier as the 2023 season unfolds. Bradfo sits down with two pitchers - Yu Darvish and Joe Kelly - who have seemingly mastered the art of mixing up their pre-pitch routine, leaving hitters all out of sorts when it comes to timing up the pitches. (To liste...