Barnes, hit him high, hits a deep, it is out of here!

Here comes the hook.

Down there! 20 strikeouts!

He ties the Major League record.

Breeze hits it in the air to center.

We will see you tomorrow. What are we going to talk about? What are we going to talk about?

This is the first time in what, three weeks that we're not recapping the postseason games that just happened or previewing the postseason games that are about to happen?

What do you want to do? Do you just want to sit here and stare into each other's souls for 45 minutes?

Well, we can do that off camera. But I feel like we should use this opportunity to talk about defense.

That's so stupid. The Just Baseball. The Just Baseball Gold Glove Awards, brought to you by Jack McCollin and Peter Apple.

I'd like to preface this episode with, I hate doing this.

I hate evaluating defense because you could go through all the numbers, right?

Defensive runs saved, outs above average, UZR, defensive war.

I think it's all a bunch of baloney i don't think any of these numbers

actually make any sense to me like i could give you the definition and some of the numbers are

right but was jonathan scope the best defender in major league baseball history probably not maybe

but by the numbers he looks like it i've watched

enough tigers games i didn't see jonathan scope look jump off the page and think to myself wow

what an amazing defender i didn't but he's probably going to win the gold glove and he deserves

it and we're going to talk about it but like i don't believe in any of the numbers so historically speaking the gold glove and he deserves it and we're going to talk about it but like i don't believe in any of the

numbers so historically speaking the gold glove has been the crappiest barometer of good play

and we've noted that on this podcast several times i mean i know arum brought up raphael palmero

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