Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball. It's the midweek episode and we've got some important stuff to discuss. Jake is gonna walk us through some game-changing season-changing things.

Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball. My name is Jimmy. Next to me is Jake Trevor. Joining us from California as always and BBD in the corner producing his butt away. This episode brought to you by Draft Kings and some other special people maybe.

We got a good one here. We did this. We can't remember if we did it last year during the short and season or if we did it in 2019 first year of the show.

But there's some players out there who have a big chance to win the season individually. We're gonna get into it. Trevor, you excited?

I'm so excited. Our friend, Talking Jake here, put together this beautiful list that he shared with us. There's some fun names to talk about. I like the topic. I've been part of two week differences. I've seen people have great seasons because of the last two weeks and also go the other way.

Although it's going to be a small sample size, it plays a big part in your end of season results and those things matter. I'm excited to talk about some really interesting cases here. You did a good job, Jake.

How you doing, man?

I'm, I trev James, BBD, everyone live. I just accidentally touched BBD's weener a little bit. Crossing through doorways, everything got congested. It got crazy.

But we're good. Talk to HR about it. Yeah, Trevor. I got to think it's 2019 because 2020 was such a short season. That was kind of the discussion of the season.

But for me, it's always been the, you know, a player, my generic example is a player has a 775 OPS and the people that listen to Talking Baseball know what that means.

You have a hot two weeks. You finish with an 800 OPS and it's like, I got a real good ball player. You have a bad couple weeks and you landed a 740 OPS.

You know, people are like, yeah, he's okay. He's kind of average and anyone in baseball can have a good three weeks or have a bad three weeks. So yeah, I got an interesting list of dudes here doing generally well. I mentioned the BBD thing.

Trevor, do you do you have any examples like do you have any guys you're playing with that maybe they were chasing 300 batting average or something like that or 30 home runs on the season or any of those kind of milestones that don't mean a ton, but they also could mean the world to a player.

Yeah, I mean, personally, I'm going through my my game logs right now and interesting the enough I remember Chris Herman, herm the worm September. I think it was 2011.

I had a good end of the year and I he said this exact words me like you saved your season. I didn't really think much about the time because I was still plugging away, but this is kind of exactly what you're talking about here like getting hot.

Not only like makes you feel good going into the off season, but you can raise those numbers where like they they go from.

So like, okay, like you did it. It's the body of work and this is this is just going to add to the body of work. For instance, like we're talking we're going to talk about our guy Ian have been doing it lately, right teaser teaser.

No, haps a great haps a great example and I think people, you know, sometimes we we hype all the job boy made yourself obviously it's the company in half what he's doing is nut job right now.

And yeah, we'll we'll just tie it into, you know, what that means for him kind of going forward or going into next season.

Man, his he is the best butter knife in baseball right now. Yeah, the way you can chop up his stats are electric. Trev, 2013. Oh boy, you had a hot last six games.

You in those six, that's what he was talking in those six games. You had a 831 OPS. You had a 391 batting average for 40 on base. Now it's not crazy difference, but the changes you made in those six games.

Mentally do play a little difference cognitively like your batting average was below 250 that week you ended your season batting average above 250 mentally that's like a check mark.

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