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Mat Germain, Tampa Bay Rays & Orioles and the MLB Postseason, Living the Dream
Manage episode 377466916 series 2790783
- MLB Rundown
- Long stretch of games for O’s – facing Astros, Red Sox, Nationals & Guardians
- AL West strength who will prevail into Wild Card spot – Astros, Mariners & Rangers
- NL East – Atlanta Braves rule across entire AL
- Compare Braves & Brewers pretty evenly matched in starting pitching
- BaseballBiz visit to Camden Yards – Avid & loud fans with a Sold Out crowd of 43,000 plus fans
- Mat’s visit to Camden Yards, sat in the vanishing left field seats w/Blue Jays fans
- Finding moments & milestones with Yandy Diaz
- Select a Rays jersey with player longevity with the Rays - Isaac Paredes
- Yandy & Isaak quietly build a great body of baseball work
- Game 2 – Zach Eflin was on fire against the Orioles Eflin, the most important & steady confident player of the Rays. Cy Young award talk
- Game 3 with Orioles – Tyler’s pitching was off and Rays lost
- Grayson Rodriguez - pitched a career-high 8 scoreless innings on 7 strikeouts & 5 hits (O's Game Notes) ‘he fanned Curtis Mead on a 100.1 mph fastball in the 2nd inning, the 2nd fastest strikeout pitch by an O’s starter in the Statcast era …His 117 strikeouts this season are the 10th-most by an O’s rookie at 23 years old
- No Yankees & Red Sox this postseason
- Grayson Rodriguez & Shane McClanahan comparisons on style and health
- Brandon Lowe – (O's Game Notes) slugged his 21st home run of the season in the first inning; marked the 105th homer of his career, surpassing Carl Crawford for sole possession of 6thplace on the Rays all-time home run list…Also marked his 202nd career extra-base hit, tying him w/Fred McGriff for eighth-most in team history
- Game 4 – 11 inning loss for the Rays
- Why did Kevin Cash use Pete Fairbanks for 2 innings
- Rays face Angels next
- Shohei Ohtani
- Ray Bourque & the Boston Bruins path could that be the same for Mike Trout
- Angels need an Alex Anthopoulos style GM to rebuild their organization – perhaps Chaim Bloom
- Pirates could be a model for a new Angels path
- Will Rays keep a .600 record for the remaining season?
- Teams with a Bye may go cold with time off at the beginning of postseason
- The Stadium of the Future – Virtual Ballpark – with live - on-field avatars
- AppleTV & MLB – a camera shot from the seats with the Canadian broadcast
- Rays’ Tristan Gray (O's Game Notes) Gray made his 1st MLB start, 1st career hit, and launched his first career home run in the 8th inning
Thanks to Mat Germain. Mat can be found on Twitter @Mat_Germain_ Mark can be found on Twitter @TheBaseballBiz
BaseballBiz can be found on iheartradio, Stitcher, Apple,Spotify & Google podcasts & @TheBaseballBiz on Twitter & https://www.baseballbizondeck.com
Please like, follow and comment. Let us know your thoughts about the show. DM Mark on Twitter X @TheBaseballBiz
Special thanks to XTaKeRuX for the music "Rocking Forward"
246 episodes
Manage episode 377466916 series 2790783
- MLB Rundown
- Long stretch of games for O’s – facing Astros, Red Sox, Nationals & Guardians
- AL West strength who will prevail into Wild Card spot – Astros, Mariners & Rangers
- NL East – Atlanta Braves rule across entire AL
- Compare Braves & Brewers pretty evenly matched in starting pitching
- BaseballBiz visit to Camden Yards – Avid & loud fans with a Sold Out crowd of 43,000 plus fans
- Mat’s visit to Camden Yards, sat in the vanishing left field seats w/Blue Jays fans
- Finding moments & milestones with Yandy Diaz
- Select a Rays jersey with player longevity with the Rays - Isaac Paredes
- Yandy & Isaak quietly build a great body of baseball work
- Game 2 – Zach Eflin was on fire against the Orioles Eflin, the most important & steady confident player of the Rays. Cy Young award talk
- Game 3 with Orioles – Tyler’s pitching was off and Rays lost
- Grayson Rodriguez - pitched a career-high 8 scoreless innings on 7 strikeouts & 5 hits (O's Game Notes) ‘he fanned Curtis Mead on a 100.1 mph fastball in the 2nd inning, the 2nd fastest strikeout pitch by an O’s starter in the Statcast era …His 117 strikeouts this season are the 10th-most by an O’s rookie at 23 years old
- No Yankees & Red Sox this postseason
- Grayson Rodriguez & Shane McClanahan comparisons on style and health
- Brandon Lowe – (O's Game Notes) slugged his 21st home run of the season in the first inning; marked the 105th homer of his career, surpassing Carl Crawford for sole possession of 6thplace on the Rays all-time home run list…Also marked his 202nd career extra-base hit, tying him w/Fred McGriff for eighth-most in team history
- Game 4 – 11 inning loss for the Rays
- Why did Kevin Cash use Pete Fairbanks for 2 innings
- Rays face Angels next
- Shohei Ohtani
- Ray Bourque & the Boston Bruins path could that be the same for Mike Trout
- Angels need an Alex Anthopoulos style GM to rebuild their organization – perhaps Chaim Bloom
- Pirates could be a model for a new Angels path
- Will Rays keep a .600 record for the remaining season?
- Teams with a Bye may go cold with time off at the beginning of postseason
- The Stadium of the Future – Virtual Ballpark – with live - on-field avatars
- AppleTV & MLB – a camera shot from the seats with the Canadian broadcast
- Rays’ Tristan Gray (O's Game Notes) Gray made his 1st MLB start, 1st career hit, and launched his first career home run in the 8th inning
Thanks to Mat Germain. Mat can be found on Twitter @Mat_Germain_ Mark can be found on Twitter @TheBaseballBiz
BaseballBiz can be found on iheartradio, Stitcher, Apple,Spotify & Google podcasts & @TheBaseballBiz on Twitter & https://www.baseballbizondeck.com
Please like, follow and comment. Let us know your thoughts about the show. DM Mark on Twitter X @TheBaseballBiz
Special thanks to XTaKeRuX for the music "Rocking Forward"
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