Five and Dive

In Episode 128, Bradford and Craig discuss five mostly baseball topics.

1. Wild Wild West: The Dodgers and Padres threw down for three great games that felt at least like late September baseball.

2. Thaaaaaaaaaaaa Yankees lose: The Bronx Bombers are not hitting bombs, will it continue? Bradford investigates.

3. Protocol Me Maybe: The Twins and Phillies are both dealing with the Covid IL. Does MLB have a standard for when to cancel games? Bradford investigates.

4. Around the Horn: Craig has a rant about position players pitching, and we round up some injuries, and players returning from injury.

5. What to Watch: Are these pitchers hot starts real? Tune in to find out.

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In Episode 127, Emma and Craig chat about Brickyard Kennedy and then discuss five mostly baseball topics.

1. The Mets have once again shown an inability to deal with sexual harassment within the organization.

2. No-dón: Carlos Rodón throws the second no-hitter in a week.

3. Meet me 61 feet, six inches away: The Atlantic League is going to continue to house MLB’s experiments.

4. Around the Horn: Two weeks into the season seems about the right time to crown the Red Sox and victory lap our step forward picks.

5. What to Watch: The two best teams in baseball (?) square off, plus a cool pitching matchup and a sad pitching matchup.

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In Episode 126, Bradford and Craig discuss five mostly baseball topics.

1. Musgrove Love: Joe Musgrove throws the first no-hitter in Padres history. No one could have seen this coming, certainly no co-host of this show.

2. Around the Horn: Dexter Fowler is hurt, Akil Baddoo is still mashing, and Kyle Higashioka and Shohei Ohtani are hitting tanks.

3. Who ya got II: We revisit Tatis vs. Acuña vs. Soto

4. Extra Sinning: Craig hates the extra innings rule.

5. What to Watch: Craig also needs to stop picking games that happen the day we record.

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In Episode 125, Bradford and Craig chat more about the All-Star game and then discuss five mostly baseball topics.

1. Because We’re a Mets Podcast: The Mets had a walkout win Thursday, you might have heard about it.

2. Sticky Icky: MLB has started investigating doctored balls, and the guy selling the “Legalize Pine Tar” shirts has somehow come under scrutiny.

3. Around the Horn: The Athletics might be bad. The Reds might be good. PECOTA might be right about the Braves.

4. The Lies of Texas: A survey of Opening Day at a full stadium.

5. What to Watch: Young pitchers galore.

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In Episode 124, Jeffrey and Craig chat about the quad box and then discuss five mostly baseball topics.

1. Not Going to Georgia: MLB has moved the All-Star Game from Atlanta (well, Cobb County) to Denver.

2. Oh no, Fernando: Fernando Tatis jr. dislocated his shoulder on a swing. That’s bad.

3. Trade Deadline Creep: A couple of bench infielders are on the move.

4. Around the Horn: Akil Baddoo might be really good. The Mets are still really the Mets, and some other stories from the first week of the season

5. What to Watch: Jeffrey may have finally convinced Craig that Pablo Lopez is really good.

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In Episode 123, Jeffrey and Craig discuss five mostly baseball topics.

1. We’re still a Mets podcast, even though they didn’t play: Francisco Lindor signed a 341 million dollar extension with the Mets…barely.

2. Protocol Me Maybe: But you will have to wait for a bit to see him play for the Mets, as their opening weekend opponents, the Nationals, have a Covid outbreak.

3. Around the Horn: Some other contract extensions, and some actual Major League Baseball action.

4. Thanks I Hate It: There’s a new score bug. We hate it.

5. What to Watch: Eventually the Mets, but there’s some intriguing pitching matchups this weekend too.

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In Episode 122, Emma and Jeffrey chat about the NCAA tournaments and then tackle the five teams in the NL West as we wrap up our 2021 MLB preview.

1. The Dodgers can’t win more than 104 games, right?

2. The Padres are good and fun in a different way than the Dodgers (and probably not quite as good)

3. The Diamondbacks are boring

4. The Giants are…well, they aren’t exciting, but they might be interesting. Eh, maybe not.

5. The Rockies apparently offer a good, if pricey, margarita. You’ll need it.

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In Episode 121, Bradford and Jeffrey have not been enjoying the nice weather and instead tackle the five teams in the AL West as we continue our 2021 MLB preview.

1. In a slight upset Bradford might prefer the pro wrestling heel Astros more than Jeffrey. Neither of us think they are winning 90 games though.

2. The Angels might actually have managed a “stars and average players” roster this year, which would be an improvement.

3. The Athletics have really nice uniforms and you can’t take that away from them.

4. The Mariners might be good at some point this year after all relevant service time signposts have been passed.

5. The Rangers will not be good at any point, but do have good food options at the park.

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In Episode 120, Jeffrey and Craig go live on Twitch to tackle the five teams in the NL East as we continue our 2021 MLB preview.

1. PECOTA really, really, really likes the Brewers. Jeffrey is more neutral.

2. What if you built the entire Cubs pitching staff our of pitchers like Kyle Hendricks but not quite as good. Also, what if Jake Arrieta was there again?

3. The Cardinals might be the best team in this division, but they might not.

4. The Reds defense is appointment TV, but perhaps not in a good way.

5. The Pirates are not appointment TV.

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In Episode 119, the award-winning Bradford and Craig chat about Bradford’s SABR award and then tackle the five teams in the NL East as we continue our 2021 MLB preview.

1. PECOTA says the Mets are the best team in the division Craig, who else did you think it would be?

2. The Nets have filled some obvious holes but is it enough to get them back in playoff contention?

3. The Phillies are running it back, but hopefully with an improved bullpen.

4. Yes, the Braves are fourth here, we have some thoughts.

5. The Marlins are young and fun, but might not be good.

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In Episode 118, Emma and Craig chat about Robin Williams movies and fast food rankings and then tackle the five teams in the AL East as we continue our 2021 MLB preview.

1. The Yankees aren’t the most exciting team in the world, but their lineup is super effective.

2. No one remembers what Craig said about the Rays last year, even Craig.

3. The Blue Jays are fun, even if their new digs aren’t as nice as the ones in Clearwater.

4. The Red Sox have half of a really good lineup and also Nick Pivetta.

5. The Orioles remain the Orioles.

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In Episode 117, Jeffrey and Craig tackle the five teams in the AL Central as we kick off our 2021 MLB preview.

1. The Twins are probably going to win the division again, even if they might be a little bit worse

2. Cleveland finally has one (1) interesting outfielder, but a lot of interesting pitching.

3. The White Sox are probably better than Cleveland, but there are issues here.

4. The Royals are trying sort of

5. The Tigers are not.

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In Episode 116, Emma and Craig chat about the Space Jam cinematic universe and then discuss five mostly baseball topics.

1. JBJ in MIL: I don’t think we predicted this landing spot.

2. Filmyering You In: Was this actually the biggest free agent move of the week? We debate, you decide.

3. We’re a can opener podcast now: The listeners were hungry for a Spencer Torkelson follow up segment.

4. Around the Horn: A round up of this week’s spring training stories

5. Buca di Mehppo: Look it says mostly baseball topics.

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In Episode 115, R.J. and Craig discuss five mostly baseball topics.

1. Analyze This: Gerrit Cole and Francisco Lindor had some things to say last week about analytics in a broader labor and baseball context.

2. This kind of luxe just ain’t for us: The Royals extend Hunter Dozier in their continued attempt to try and actually win baseball games.

3. Rocky Mountain Why: The Rockies will not be extending Trevor Story in their continued attempt to be the weird ass Rockies.

4. I need a can opener, ’cause I got some beans to spill: We try to put Spencer Torkelson’s can opener injury into a broader context, also consider some new nicknames for him.

5. Around the Horn: A round up of early spring training stories.

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In Episode 114, Bradford and Craig discuss five mostly depressing baseball topics.

1. Creepless in Seattle: The Mariners now former president Kevin Mather said what a lot of teams are thinking, but it’s depressing that they are even thinking it.

2. This is gonna be a depressing episode: Aaron Boone and Zack Britton both had comments on Domingo German’s return to the Yankees.

3. Cleveland has licensed a very bad t-shirt.

4. It all goes down on the gram: Albert Pujols might be retiring?

5. Around the Horn: Thoughts on Jackie Bradley jr. maybe going to Milwaukee, and Shin-soo Choo’s upcoming rookie season in Korea.

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