Rake Your Position

It’s finally time to put our never-wrong prediction hats back on and spoil the final results of the season before it even starts. One of us makes some bold calls, one of us mentions cold balls, and two of us have basically the same exact expectations of the season. Let us know why we’re idiots! Hit us up at rakeyourposition@gmail.com or @rakeurposition on X.  WE HAVE MERCH! Find us on Etsy at rake...

SHOUTOUT TO PITTSFIELD NATIVE NEIL FOR BEING A BEAST UNDER PRESSURE. Lots of love from the whole pod crew! Quick hitter today (or at least we tried)... Spring training has started and love is in the air. So the guys answer the age old question: why do we love this game? A lot of nostalgia and some getting mad at your parents. What are we looking forward to in this Spring Training? We give some hig...

The fellas are back at 75% this week!  We hit a few highlights on some meh signings and then discuss a couple key extensions.  One extension keeps a fan favorite (depending on who you ask) at home while the other is a small market club making a big market investment on their face of the franchise! We then re-visit some free agent predictions and see the return of everyone’s favorite Rake Segment! ...

Happy Birthday, Jackie! Jackie Robinson changed the game and the world forever when he broke the Major League Baseball color barrier. Our very well planned Episode 42 was recorded on his birthday and the guys pay tribute to this momentous occasion. The Orioles are being sold - do the kids start getting paid??? Finally, the guys discuss the best (or maybe their favorite) baseball video games of all...

Hall of Fame results for 2024 have been announced! Three guys made it, one missed by five votes. Everyone knows how good the three that made it are, so we wanted to highlight some guys we think should have made it, or at least should get more recognition than they are. We look ahead to the likely 2025 ballot with what looks like a few locks and a couple others that are very, very interesting. Base...

Hall of Fame voting will be announced on Tuesday! Who would we put in? We reveal our ballots prior to the reveal and will discuss much more in depth next week! In honor of some of the greats likely getting enshrined (and because we don’t have much else to talk about since the stove is ice cold), we do a fun little experiment to see who can draft the best 15 player team of all time. Which team woul...

We're a man down but still over an hours worth of episode. And we didn't think we had a lot of material. We run through all the small deals that have happened since you've talked to us last, the big deal that went down, and the pieces still left to fall. And we also talk quite a bit about baseball players gluteus muscles and appreciate the position packing the most heat. Hit us up at r...

THE MLB IS MARKETING THE GAME. I REPEAT, THE MLB IS MARKETING THE GAME. It a strange, and welcomed, twist baseball has introduced a fun, new event in Spring Training to hopefully bring some name recognition to their upcoming stars. Hopefully we can actually enjoy it. The Orioles might get sold? To a local billy-aire? And might pay some of their young stars? Yes, please! Who even cares about the st...

BREAKING NEW: Angels are still very confusing. Dodgers add an arm in Mr. Glas(now). Good deal for both teams? Great deal for the Rays? For the Dodgers? Time will tell! Happy Merry Holi-Christmas-days. We hope everyone out there has a few days to rest, relax, and ignore their family by listening to our podcast. As a special treat we send presents to a few teams. Tigers 2024 World Series Champs. Hit...

The fellas are back and have an important hot stove conversation this week. How do you like your bacon?  After the guys have this riveting discussion they share some thoughts on all the bacon that Shohei Ohtani is set to receive from the Dodgers.  Has the power of the NL landscape shifted to the west? In the AL the big news is Juan Soto head to the Bronx.  The fellas opinion is that the Yankees ar...

WINTER MEETINGS ARE HERE AND THE STOVE IS…..LUKEWARM. The premiere baseball offseason event has came and went and we still don’t know much at all. The Braves pull off another unbelievable trade. Soto to the Yankees? Orioles make some moves. Erick Fedde goes way west and comes back a much richer man.  The grounds keeper gives his very level headed thoughts (as always) on the MLB draft lottery.  And...

Extra extra, read all about it! A big star stays home while the Cardinals pitching staff sits on their front porch and yells at kids over the morning newspaper.  Other than geriatric news out of St. Louis not much else has happened.  Awards this year were pretty…expected. Nothing was very close besides manager of the year. I think we may have found the new leader of the Blake Snell fan club, thoug...

The moment we’ve all been waiting for…the BEST BASEBALL MOVIE SHOWDOWN. The guys each raked their starting 9 baseball movies. The lists were thrown into the mulcher and the bonafide, absolutely correct, never debated list of the best baseball movies was created. Except maybe for the one that got left off because Ahron “forgot” about one of his top 3 movies. Great work, buddy. Let us know your thou...

Someone needs to check the gas line because the stove is ICE COLD.  Not a lot happening in the last week of baseball. We had a couple internal promotions for the Astros and Brewers, all the QOs were declined, so with nothing else to talk about the fellas once again put on their predictor hats and talk about 5 big names possibly on the move via trade. Juan Soto to the MARINERS? Tyler Glasnow to the...

The guys take a look at this upcoming free agent class and put their expert prediction skills to use. We take a look at the Top 9 of MLB Trade Rumors free agent prediction tracker and add in a wild card to discuss where we think (read:know) some of the big names will end up. Do the Cardinals sign 8 of the top 9 guys? Do the Phillies only have left handed pitchers on their staff? Hit us up at rakey...

THIS SEASON IS OVAH. Congratulations to the 2023 World Series Champion Texas Rangers, a team we all expected to win the world series at the beginning of the season.  The Rangers seemingly had the series pretty well in hand the whole time and got it down in 5 relatively anticlimactic games. They hit, they pitched, they filled in injury holes, they did it all.  We take a look at some of the interest...

Well well well, FINALLY some high stakes games here. Both CS series go to game 7s and it was glorious.  The fellas give their thoughts on the Championship series, some surprises, some let downs, and some Buffalo Bills references. And we’re finally here, to the main event…LET’S GET IT ON. We look ahead to the World Series and talk about our expectations, who we expect to take over the series, some...

Well...the Division series are over and no game 5s. COME ON. The resident Braves fan is sad. What happened with that team? On the bright side, they won 1 more game than the Dodgers did. WOOF. The Twins made a valiant effort, but did they really ever have a chance? Where were the Orioles? Watch out for them next year. The Rangers are rolling, the Phillies are fun, the Astros are inevitable, and the...

We be back!!! The fellas stop by to discuss the happenings of the Wild Card round this week, drop in predictions for the Division Series, and discuss all the craziness that has happened so far this round!   What does 100 wins in the regular season really mean in the postseason? So far, NOTHING!  Sit back and enjoy the conversation as the team breaks down the good, the bad, and the ugly of the play...

PLAYOFFS?! Don’t talk about playoffs. You kidding me? PLAYOFFS!? Well, Jim Mora, we talk about the playoffs this week.  We run down final standings, as this last week was pretty wild with some moving and shaking within the playoff picture.  Each wild card series gets a look and we make our predictions (because we are very good at predicting things) on who is going to move on to the Divisional seri...

The final week of the season is upon us…and the rakings get a little strange as we near October. The AL awards for this year are, well, pretty much already decided. Great job everyone, but go ahead and pack it in. SPEAKING OF AWARDS WE GOT A SPICY MEATBALL HERE WITH THE HOST (yes, not Joe), with a rant this week. He’s probably not wrong, I don’t want to admit it though. We take a look at some of t...

Waino finally joins the 200 win club, and he somehow did it with an ERA over 7. Nothing but love from everyone on the pod for Waino as we take a walk down the boulevard of Cardinal dreams. We've somehow made it to episode 24 so we celebrate the only way that we know how - talking about The Kid with the sweet swing everyone knows and loves. In this edition of appreciate or reinstate we discuss....

THIS WEEK: Same teams are still good. We spend some time discussing the NL award races because our predictions were...no bueno. Should first basemen get more love? Probably! Is one going to win the MVP? I doubt it. Does the MVP award go to the most VALUABLE player? Or the best player? The Cy Young race very close with no real clear cut winner, there are 4 guys that are excelling in different areas...

The whole gang is back this week!  As the season winds down it seems like the rakings are becoming pretty stagnant, so we also take a look at what teams are still not performing up to their potential…and some that are still playing a little over their potential. Is the Braves lineup this year one of the greatest of all time? We take a look at some of the best lineups and teams to ever play. Murder...

Last minute changes leave the guys in flux but don’t worry, they are still here and with a super double secret probation surprise!   Not much has changed in the rankings but we do see our first ever tie putting 6 teams in the Top 5.  Thanks to the waiver dumpage, the guys talk give some thoughts on who should claim who and how big of a potential impact this might have on the playoff race. Sit back...