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In Episode 79, Bradford, Emma, and Craig chat about MLB's forgotten testing promises and then discuss five mostly baseball awards topics. 1. Playoffs? Playoffs?!: We are down to the final weekend. The AL teams are locked. The NL teams are still a mess. 2. Hardware Vol. 1: The MVP awards get discussed, with more consensus in the NL than AL. 3. Hardware Vol. 2. Shane Bieber is going to win the AL Cy...

Cliff Corcoran returns to try to figure out who deserves which awards out of this crazy attenuated season in a disaster of a year, plus tales of players and people neglected in their post-career years and a requiem for the lost pennant races of the future. TABLE OF CONTENTS The Man in the Green Uniform*Ron Gardenhire*1980 in the AL East*Cliff Corcoran: Negro Leagues Caps*Inconclusion, the Negro Le...

With the season drawing to a close, is it too soon to look at 2021? Of course not. Mike, Jon, and Samuel spend some time talking through how they think the 2020 bubble plan for the playoffs will go(spoiler alert not great). They then transition to discussing pop up cases both good and bad in the shortened season, pondering how these season will change draft rankings for next season. It's a great d...

In Episode 79, Jeffrey and Craig chat about being Coffee Dads and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. Who Doesn't Want It Least: The NL playoff race is a mess, y'all 2. Around the Horn: A wide catcher has a good game, a Yankees lawyer is on the case, a Mets GM returns to Queens, and we say good bye to Cole Hamels and Ron Gardenhire (and the Tigers rebuild?) 3. Jeff Has Been Very Disrespec...

In Episode 241 of For All You Kids Out There, Jeffrey and Jarrett preview the 2020Jets season, lay the 2020 Mets to rest again, and review new PTBNL and old prospect lists. In the second half of the show, David Roth of Defector Media sums up 20 years of the Wilpon Mets in one Simpsons reference, and Jarrett goes deep into the annals of Mets ownership history. In the third half of the show we answe...

After a week away, JP returns to discuss some recent call ups, including his love for Alejandro Kirk, and his status as the 2nd best podcast host in the TINO League. The guys also chat about some 2020 breakouts and their value heading into 2021. Email: tinopodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @tinopodcast / @hoodieandtie / @GhostRunneron2B Patreon: patreon.com/TINOPodcast Music from https://filmmusic.io “Di...

In Episode 78, Emma and Craig chat about Fernando Tatis jr, and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. There's a lot to commend it: Why don't they just build the whole season out of the expanded playoffs? 2. Doing a disservice: Actually, it's about ethics in Nick Pivetta's service time 3. AQWhy are we playing baseball: playing baseball doesn't matter, the planet is dying. 4. Injury Roundup:...

Jesse Spector returns to debate which players are overrated and remember Tom Seaver, plus Big Ed Walsh fails to parent and Ed Whitson is betrayed by Yankees fans. TABLE OF CONTENTS Big Ed’s Kids*Failing Ed Whitson*Jesse Spector: Tom Seaver: The Yankees Years*The Serious Seaver*Aroldis Chapman vs. the Rays*Twitter Homerism*“J. Guerra”*Mike Clevinger: Persona Non Grata*Most Overrated Players*“Jeter...

In Episode 240 of For All You Kids Out There, Jeffrey and Jarrett have a nice short first half of the show planned out that gets derailed by a half hour on bullpen construction thoughts. We also have some more Mets Kremlinology, some breaking ownership news, and another Michael Conforto extension question to answer.

In Episode 77, Jeffrey and Bradford discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. Moving Day: The Yankees leave the Orioles in their wake, and the Marlins and Mariners are making moves towards the playoffs. 2. Meet the Mets: The Mets may finally have a new owner, but we ask the important question, what does this mean for A-Rod? 3. Around the Horn: A no-hitter, an unnecessary protest, and a proper musica...

Mike, Jon, and Samuel return for a more abstract episode of the podcast this week. Jon has some interesting fantasy performers that were all either super sleepers or undrafted that Mike and Samuel try to guess. One does better than the other, you can probably figure out which is which there. Then the lads take a couple listener questions involving Gavin Lux, Bobby Dalbec, and Mr. Show. It's a whim...

Mark is joined by Baseball Prospectus Lead Prospect Writer Jeffrey Paternostro to go over just some of the 40+ prospects from the 2020 Top 101 that have played in the majors this season. Whose performances are they buying and whose are they selling? And how did Mark forget about Triston McKenzie? Email: tinopodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @tinopodcast / @hoodieandtie / @GhostRunneron2B Patreon: patreon...

In Episode 76, Jeffrey and Craig have frankly a too long conversation about Kyle Wright and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. Minor Threat: The PBA is about to expire and MLB seems about ready to take over the minors. 2. Big Scores Are Back: 19-0? Psshaw. 3. Around the Horn: An ump show, a second base glove, a steal go home, and some NL Central action on and off the field. 4. Thanks I h...

In Episode 75, Bradford, Jeffrey and Craig discuss grilling and then engage in five rounds of buy or sell for 2021. 1. Are you buying the White Sox as a top 3 team in the AL? 2. Are you buying the Phillies as the second best team in the NL East? 3. Are the Yankees always going to have a dozen injured players? 4. Are the Athletics the best team in the AL West? 5. Are the Diamondbacks really this ba...

In Episode 239 of For All You Kids Out There, Jeffrey and Jarrett get bogged down in a Todd Frazier discussion off the hop, shocking. We then get into where the Mets stand with 20 games to go and our retired lawyer has some thoughts on A-Rod suing the Wilpons. In the second half of the show we spend some time considering late Mets great Tom Seaver, before wrapping up with another Dom Smith questio...

Ginny Searle (Baseball Prospectus) discusses the aftermath of the Thom Brenneman slur and gives a scholar’s insight into Shakespeare. Plus racially-motivated violence in the Negro Leagues and the PCL, with a voyage into one of the great nicknames. TABLE OF CONTENTS The Consequences of Being Boojum Wilson*A Fight in Oakland: “Here’s My Chance”*Ginny Searle: What Can Be Done to Make Baseball a More...

Mark and J.P. are back with for an omnibus trade deadline edition of TINO. Mark and J.P. debate the value of Cleveland's return for Mike Clevinger and try to figure out if they've ever developed a left-handed pitcher. Plus more Marlins talk and J.P. tries and fails to bait Mark into a Monte Harrison discussion due to a meddling producer. Email: tinopodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @tinopodcast / @hoodie...

The gang's all here! Mike, Jon, and Samuel reconvene for a big episode on the 2020 trade deadline. They dive into a fair amount of discussion on the lesser known deals with fantasy implications. Not unlike the trade deadline itself, there's a lot of action without direction in this episode but it ends up being exciting. See how we did that? Got a content idea for the show? Shoot us an email at fla...

In Episode 74, Emma and Craig discuss six mostly baseball topics. 1. Rob Manfred get a forehead tattoo challenge: Rob Manfred likes baseball. No, there will be no follow up questions. 2. Rule 1: Leave the memes to the professionals, not the professional baseball teams. 3. My New Dads: The trade deadline was 90% Padres deals 4. Remembering Tom Seaver: The Franchise was more than just the best Mets...

In Episode 73, Bradford is joined by Shakeia Taylor and Cory Frontin to discuss a week of strikes in baseball, whether or not Rob Manfred cares about the sport or Black people, and Jackie Robinson Day. Five and Dive is listener-supported, you can join our Patreon at patreon.com/fiveanddive. If you want to get in contact with the show, the e-mail address is fiveanddive@baseballprospectus.com . Our...

In Episode 237 of For All You Kids Out There, Jeffrey and Jarrett discuss the weirdest Mets Kremlinology yet, Steve Cohen closing in on ownership of the team, potential deadline moves, the current state of the Mets rotation, and well a whole lot of other stuff we've already forgotten after watching two dire Mets losses from record to post.

Paul Dickson returns to discuss The Rise of the GI Army, an increasingly hard-to-imagine moment when the country overcame resistance and demagoguery to pull together. Plus a tale of two terrible first basemen going to war and a reply to Thom Brennaman. TABLE OF CONTENTS Mahan, Sturm, and the Lost Players of 2040*Thom Brennaman: “Bye Bye Blackbird”*Paul Dickson: A Timely Recollection (An Army in Ya...

In Episode 72, Jeffrey and Craig discuss Bo Bichette and five other mostly baseball topics. 1. Call Up SZN: There's been oh so many debuting top prospects. Here are several of them. 2. Team Entropy: The AL playoff picture seems fairly settled at the halfway point, the NL one? Not so much 3. August and Everything After: What is the trade deadline going to look like this year? 4. Who ya got: There's...

In Episode 236 of For All You Kids Out There, Jeffrey and (mostly) Jarrett chat about the Mets Covid issues, the latest in ownership rumors, the current state of the Mets rotation as we approach the trade deadline, and Jeffrey makes the classic mistake of bringing up Sixto Sánchez, turning what he thought would be like a 75-minute podcast into a...longer one.

Mark and J.P. are back with for an omnibus call-up edition of TINO. Mark has a new favorite Marlins pitcher to talk about. J.P. like Joey Bart's power. They chat about the debuting Tigers starters and answer a few questions from the listeners as well. Email: tinopodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @tinopodcast / @hoodieandtie / @GhostRunneron2B Patreon: patreon.com/TINOPodcast Music from https://filmmusic....