165 | How Many Players Might Sit Out?

Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast)

Jomboy Media

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Mike Leake, Ryan Zimmerman, Joe Ross, and Ian Desmond became the first group of guys to decide to sit out the 2020 season this week for a wide variety of reasons. How big could that list get? Does Shohei Ohtani have the clearest path to the MVP in a shortened 2020? Which NL teams just got the best DHs? How much does Trevor Plouffe hate the Yankees? Talkin' Baseball is BACK baby. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Talking Baseball. Baseball is underway. We got 60 man rosters. We got summer camps.
0:08.4	We got players opting out and we got NL, DHS. Let's do it.
0:12.4	What's going on everybody? Welcome back to Talking Baseball. Did I say talking yanks at the beginning back to it?
0:31.2	I think so. I feel like we would have said something.
0:34.7	Okay, I didn't mess up the intro and everything has been going smoothly since the start of the show.
0:41.4	My name is Jimmy. This is Jake Trev's over there in California and producer BBD is with us.
0:47.8	We got baseball. We got some deep baseball conversations to be had Trev. You excited about this, Jake?
0:53.1	And I've been talking all nonstop every day. How offended are you by the term summer camp?
1:00.0	Trevor. I don't care. Okay. Right answer. Good answer. I'm excited to be talking about actual baseball too.
1:06.2	And players and strategy and all that good stuff. Did you hear that John Heyman said summer camp was offensive?
1:15.2	Why? Yeah. Yeah. No one really knows. He died on the hill. He said like it should be called something more serious
1:21.8	because there's a pandemic involved. What? It's like summer camp you think of fun and memories.
1:30.1	He said even spring training too is a bit too flippant. What does he want us to be called?
1:36.8	Dude, I don't know. It's Jake told this to me live on top of the street.
1:43.3	And I had the exact reaction that you're having. Like what?
1:47.6	Yeah. No, like some people just got to say stuff no matter what it is. Just say something.
1:54.9	Say something. How was your weekend? It's been great. How did great weekend?
2:02.0	Can't complain man. California summers. They're great. I wish we weren't in a global pandemic. I wish that there was
2:09.3	some different things going on in our world. But all in all, I mean, I had a pretty good weekend.
2:13.9	Nice, Jake. How are you? Wasn't a wasn't your old band name California summers?
2:19.2	I know that was California hummers. And there was nothing but them driving around and hummers blowing
2:26.1	each other. You don't see too many hummers around anymore, huh? No, I think they kind of came down hard on
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