Postgame Show: The Pitch Clock (feat. Kyle Sielaff)

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Welcome to the pitch clock.

Here's the pitch, a two-part baseball segment combining a nostalgic baseball trivia game and an interview with an expert.

This is the pitch clock.

Interesting how you knew Reggie Jackson.

That one.

Okay, so let's get this straight.

You think that I...

However, buddy.

Are we talking about last week?

Yeah, last week's show.

You think that...

Well, there was a controversy.

If he didn't join us last week, Jeremy walked into it.

Everybody joins us every week.

Jeremy walked into a room holding a paper like

and I was just like that guy clearly looked at you have to understand that even I could have looked directly at that paper you should know what the category walk in normally like just like all right I'm holding this paper I haven't looked at it but like the extended arm is I didn't want to see it yeah but it's just the extended arm implies that you cheated right before that all right well this is the pitch clock and Chris is just upset because he broke his win streak of four I won last week however buddy I know Taylor already did it but there it is people wait for me to do it.

So, Taylor, tell us what our game is for today.

Go ahead.

It's darts 501.

So the objective of this darts game is for each individual to work their way down from 501.

So like if it's RBIs in a single season, whatever your number is, we're subtracting that from 501.

You're trying to get as close to zero as possible.

The only difference between this and normal darts is that

you guys have to go past zero.

So you have to be able to get the best.

And

know darts i don't know to have i don't know darts i'm with you i kind of like when he first said darts 501 i was like what the hell is he talking about but there is a game where in darts you start at 501 and everything you hit if you hit a 24 you get 24 off the score okay the goal is the first team to whittle down to zero okay

so

we can go past zero is what you're saying

yes but it once you go past zero it's whoever's the closest to zero okay gotcha it's gonna be best best of three the first round is rbis in a single season.

All right.

So, Chris, all right.

I'm going to go.

You go ahead and go first.

Paul Canerco.

Paul Canerco's career high or

single season high was 117.

All right, now.

So, Chris,

you're at 384.

I was hoping he got to like 131 here, but go ahead.

I mean, so

Barry Bonds.

Barry Bonds single season high

is 137.

So, Jeremy, you're at 364 you're at 384 Chris Cody such a fun game yeah I just want to think of like random names like who's the guy there's just these guys that could just like try

you could go as many rounds I'm gonna go with

damn it I'll just go Albert Pulos it's a good one Albert Puolos's career or single season high 137 uh Chris Cody you're at 247 Miguel Cabrera it's confusing I know he like led the league in RBIs.

I just don't know at the time how many that was.

Triple crown.

Right.

Miguel Cabrera's career high in a single season

was 139.

Oh.

So Jeremy, you're down to 225.

I am going to go

with.

I'll go A-Rod.

Alex Rodriguez's career high in a single season, 156 RBIs.

No way.

Chris Cody, you're down to 91.

Uh-oh.

All right.

Babe Ruth.

Different time.

Babe Ruth's career high in a single season, 168 RBIs.

Jeremy, you're down to 57.

Uh-oh.

Told you it was a different time.

I'm not happy about that.

You guys, a reminder, you guys have to go past zero.

I'll go, I need to go, I think, I'll go Hanley Ramirez.

That's a really good one.

And mine.

I feel like his high is ready to be like 103 or something.

Mine is from the exact same era of Marlin's.

So we'll get to it in just a second once Taylor lets me know where you're at.

He's probably had a 110 season.

He has had a 110 season.

His single season high was 111 RBIs.

So Chris Cody, your final score for this first game is minus 20.

So that means Cody Ross.

Damn it.

Cody Ross's career high in a single season.

79.

90 RBIs.

That puts him at minus 33.

Oh, and that's going to be

one point to Chris Cody.

Let's go.

That was with the Giants, wasn't it?

It was with the Marlins, 2009.

Dude,

nice season.

And now we get to our 2025 Major League Baseball expert, the former radio voice, current TV voice, and his first year on the television broadcast.

It's Kyle Seeloff, who you guys might remember from some old clips on the Lebatard show playing around with Chris Cody and Billy Gill during spring training.

Kyle, welcome to the show.

Love the teal Marlins hat, and thank you for joining me today.

I know, this is the best, isn't it?

I was pumped when they wore them over the Hall of Fame weekend, so I had to grab one.

But yeah, dude, it's great to be with you.

It's bizarre.

You and I are doing this when we're usually doing it on the broadcast together.

That's right.

That's right.

And I'm normally upsetting you with all sorts of weird pop culture references.

But today we're doing baseball and baseball only.

So you're here as the voice of the Marlins, and it's time to start with the Marlins.

I've tried to avoid them as much as possible on this show, but now there's a real reason to discuss the Miami Marlins.

And for the people who have not been paying attention, the Marlins just now snapped a streak of six straight series wins as the Astros take this series from them this week.

They went from 16 games under on June 13th to 500 by August 3rd with a sweep of the New York Yankees.

They're the youngest team in baseball.

Kyle, how have they done it?

Yeah, it's a loaded question, but I think it's a good one.

Look, on the surface, I think you point to the pitching.

That's obviously been much better up until recently in the last couple of days.

I think the coaching staff fits perfectly because, in addition to having the youngest team in baseball, they have the youngest coaching staff.

I think when you start to put all that stuff together and you do have to start in the front office, and hey, I'll say this too, and I've said it on the broadcast.

It's the most unsexy thing in the world, but ownership has invested tens of millions in dollars to the infrastructure of the organization.

I promise you, prior to them spending this kind of money, they had no chance because they weren't going to keep up with the rest of the league.

It required tens of millions of dollars just to be competitive, just to stay with the industry standard.

Whether that's literal human bodies or technology and computers and all this stuff to give them a fighting chance, that to me is really where it starts.

Without that stuff, I don't think they're any good.

Again, you start to put all that stuff that I just said together, you can start to understand why they're starting having

they're having success.

So, again, I know that's a lot, but it's way beneath the surface of just, well, they're pitching really well.

It's going so much deeper than that to give them a chance to win here.

And so, now I do want to give you an opportunity to highlight a player here.

So, I'm going to pick three.

You know, we talked about the pitching.

I'm going to bring it to the starting lineup at the moment.

You got Kyle Stowers, who you and I both have been advocating to at least get some MVP votes and consideration considering what he's done for this team and booing them in the early parts of the season before they got hot.

There's Agustin Ramirez, who leads nearly every single offensive category amongst rookies, certainly in the National League.

And then there is Jacob Marcy, who basically has lit the world on fire in his first five, six games here, you know, had a historic opening weekend, has shown a lot of patience at the plate, ability to drive the ball, and has made some pretty spectacular spectacular plays in center field.

So, Kyle, I know it's tough to pick one, but between Stowers, Ramirez, and Marcy, let's focus on one of them and give these folks an opportunity to hear some more.

Yeah, I think it's Kyle Stowers.

Last season, Kyle Stowers had an OPS plus Jeremy of 54.

He was 46% worse than league average.

If you told me at the end of last season, And the Marlins made the decision to designate Kyle Stowers for assignment, I think there's a chance that that 29 other teams pass on him.

He clears waivers.

He ends up off the 40 man, and he's a 4-A player in Jacksonville.

His OPS plus, and you and I are chatting at 10.15 in the morning on August 6th, prior to game three against the Astros, is 155.

He is literally 101%

better year over year.

To me, just to look at that one number, to literally be, per the data and the analytics, 101%

better version of yourself year over year in less than a year's time in the major leagues doing something that i personally think is the hardest to do than any other professional sport

so now we've got a new category career wins for a pitcher oh good lord

who the hell is all-time leader wins

i'm just just because i can't think right now and i need a second i'll go randy johnson first randy johnson had 303.

Wow, just got it.

So Chris Cody, you're going to be at 198.

This is going to be a short one.

Yeah, and it's going to be so short because I know that I'm about to go over.

If I'm going to guess in my brain, it's 514

and it's Cy Young.

Cy Young had 511 wins.

Why would Jeremy's going to pitchers wins if it was going to be able to get just one name and the game's over?

Okay.

I didn't think he was going to guess Cy Young.

Well, what else was I gonna do?

My boy Cy Young that I know is over 500 wins.

The guy that's the pitching award is named after.

He also has the most losses.

Chris, let me guess.

You could still...

Jeff Heisman.

Chris, you could still win this.

I know.

Yeah, easily.

Tell me the number I need.

What do I need here?

You need 198, but you have as many rounds to get it.

Like, just you could name...

You could name pitchers that you think could start chipping away at 198.

Don't back weeks.

Yes.

Back-to-back weeks.

Don't just guess a whole lot.

Interesting.

Interesting bias that's happening.

Sandy Alcantra.

I'm going to trick you.

You got to really chip away.

God.

At the time of the recording, Sandy Alcantra, 46 wins.

So, Chris Cody, you're at 152.

You know what?

Let me just, I'll take a big chunk out here.

Shohei Otani.

It's not that big of a chunk.

I'm saying.

It's a chunk, though.

I was going to say Trevor Rogers, so just be happy I said.

at the time of the recording, Shohei Otani, 38 wins.

So Chris Cody, you're down to 114.

So funny.

Keep chipping away, babe.

So funny.

Trying to think of someone who's been in the league for like three years, but it's been damn good for like three years.

I'm going to go,

well, this is not three years.

I'll go Paul Skeens next.

I never got.

At the time of this recording, Paul Skeens has 16 wins.

I'll tell you right now, the way Chris is playing, a win is within range.

It totally is.

I got a good one that I think will will help take a chunk out of this.

Max Freed.

At the time of this recording, Max Freed has 84 wins, so Chris Cody's down to 14.

This sucks.

All right.

I almost just said Trevor Rogers, but that might be too much.

Hold on, that's not my guess.

Yuri Perez.

Did he get more than 10 last year?

Oh, no.

How long has he been around for?

At the time of this recording, Yuri Perez has eight wins.

So Chris Cody is down to six.

Oh, Oh, that's even hard.

Damn it.

This is hard.

I know the name that's at the top of my head that I would go with just for fun.

But I think it would make it even more difficult on him.

Scrooble.

At the time of this recording, 51 times Chris Cody's at minus 45.

Can I tell you?

Can I tell you?

I would have gone.

16 wins already.

I was going to go.

First of all, I think if you would guess Trevor Rogers, you would have beat me.

Trevor Rogers?

He had 18 wins.

Yep, I knew it.

I can't believe that you

literally from your second guess were teasing.

Trevor Rodgers, Trevor Rodgers, Trevor Rogers.

Incredible.

Let's talk about the Toronto Blue Jays, huh?

They've stormed back from being a pretty mediocre team, you know,

by the end of May, a team that was just two games over 500 entering June, now sitting around 20 games over 500.

Kyle, what's changed for them?

And what makes this team so good as a bit of a surprise in the American League?

yeah I mean I

think they they pitch pretty well again I think you if you don't get good pitching and you're constantly behind every night it's it's it's hard to win but go look at Nathan Lucas and Addison Barger and Alejandro Kirk Ernie Clement Joey Loperfito some of these guys that you've probably never heard of before are having great seasons and they're huge complimentary pieces to a team that's pitching well.

The other thing too is I watch the Blue Jays a little bit when I get an opportunity to do so.

They do every little thing right.

Generally, mistake-free baseball.

They don't bash their way to a win every night, but they just do every little thing right.

And when they get on base, they'll put pressure on you.

That leads to extra base hits or a base hit with two out to score a run.

So

that's a real team.

I don't think that's a fluke.

Let's take a look at the AL wild card race now that the Blue Jays have jumped into that first place spot in the American League East.

And we can maybe pick a team to focus on here because there's a couple of AL East teams that we'll talk about.

Red Sox, they've been surging, playing really good ball as well.

Obviously, they had that Roffit Devers trade earlier in the year and they've only played better since.

Have some guys who were really standing out and young players who were standing out.

There's the Seattle Mariners who were really aggressive at the deadline.

They acquired Johan Yosuarez.

They acquired Josh Naylor, who's like stealing bases at a record rate since he's been acquired.

Pretty funny.

And then there's the Yankees, who have been falling apart at the seams.

You watched it happen in Miami as the Marlins swept them.

Which of those teams stands out to you that you want to highlight here, Kyle?

Well, Seattle and Texas.

I think the American League West is going to get really interesting Jeremy down the stretch here.

I think Seattle had the best trade deadline above anybody.

Obviously, everybody knows how good their starting pitching is.

But to go out and get Suarez and Nailer and put those guys around, Julio Rodriguez and Cal Raleigh, that's a real team.

I think if they get in,

I honestly think the Seattle Mariners could win the World Series.

I really do think that's how good they are.

Nathan Avaldi with the Rangers is an unbelievable story.

Like, that guy's made like a million bucks, and he's been doing this for 15 years, and he's aging like a fine wine with Jacob deGram, who's overcome his injuries.

But if I took a dark horse to win the World Series right now, I think it's the Seattle Mariners.

Kyle, I'm springing one thing on you real quick.

I'm just going to look for a quick note.

We normally do what we refer to as a golden era of baseball star of the week on this show.

Just a quick note on Kyle Schwarber.

We've talked to Kyle Seeloff.

We've talked about Kyle Stours.

Kyle Schwarber has been ridiculous.

Anything that you got on Schwarber?

I think he's the front runner to win the National League MVP.

Every time they're down on their luck, they've lost a couple games.

They need a big hit to extend a winning streak.

That dude comes up, and it's generally not a single.

It's like 35 rows deep somewhere.

Yeah, exactly.

As long as he, I think he is in such a good position to win the National League MVP, if he remains very steady, doesn't need to be elite in the left final two months, I think he's going to win the National League MVP.

We have

Kyle Schwarber winning the National League MVP, Kyle Stowers, certainly the Marlins MVP and probably top five.

Kyle Seeloff, our MVP today.

Thank you, Kyle.

And now it's time for us to get back to our game with Chris Cody.

This round to settle it,

it's going to be I just wanted a game three.

Yeah, okay.

Most strikeouts in a single season for a pitcher.

Okay.

Nolan Ryan.

Nolan Ryan's career high in a single season, 383 strikeouts.

Jeremy, you're down to 118.

Verlander.

That's a good one.

In 2019, Justin Verlander had 300 strikeouts.

So that brings Chris Cody down to 201.

Perfect.

Yeah, you know, low career high.

That's weird.

I've got one.

Eric Gagne.

I like the strategy.

I get what you're doing.

Eric Gagne's career high in a single season, 137.

Jeremy is going to go over, but he's at minus 19.

I overshot it.

Which means I got to be under 220.

Correct here?

I'm at 201.

Yeah, you got to be under 21.

You just have to be closer between 201 and minus 19.

Between 201 and 220.

Minus 19 is not bad.

I'm going to go with a guy that I don't think ever had like

he was great in the playoffs, but I don't think of this guy as ever having like a dominant season where he would have had like 250 and 260.

And it's a Marlin.

Oh.

And I just picture his career high being somewhere in this range.

Yeah.

I'm going to go Josh Beckett.

Yeah, it's a good one, I think.

I wonder if he ever got to 200.

Chris Cody, you're at 201.

Josh Beckett's career high in a single season was 2009 with the red sox 199 you're down to 200

no that's terrible

oh my god yeah that's not good this guy i'm about to say my this buddy of mine that like he's not a buddy of mine i just know who he is

he probably has like 47 career strikeouts like you know what i mean it's one of those where it's like damn man but whatever the pitch clock's running out on me whatever i'm just gonna guess i don't have a better guess i'm trying to think of like catastrophic injuries after like three starts

i don't have nothing tyler kinley oh tyler kinley i bet oh god he's with the rockies he's with the marlins like he's played he's probably played in five seasons but like he he's like a i don't know it's not a reliever that gets used i don't know i don't know i can tell i don't know you were at two he had 72 strikeouts chris cody finishes at minus seven wow i win

what a back-to-back yep back to back i ruined this wow i i had a chance at that.

Look, man, you know what's most important?

That you start playing your best ball in August and September.

And that's what's happening here.

All right.

End July on the right note at the trade deadline.

Start things off right in August.

I'm feeling good.

Pitch clock.

Way to go, Taylor.

That was fun.

We'll be back next week.

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