Episode 10: Twins vs. Rays (with Jason Collette)

Gleeman and The Geek

John Bonnes

News, Sports, Sports News, Baseball

4.8 • 808 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2011

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Aaron and John are joined by a special guest, Jason Collette from Baseball Prospectus and DRaysBay, and talk about the original Delmon Young trade, how the Rays and Twins compare on and off the field, why a team's division shapes the way their success is perceived, television ratings and attendance numbers, the end of the Matt Tolbert era, payroll limitations saving teams from bad long-term contracts, and what it's like to blog about an organization that's fluent in sabermetrics.

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0:00.0	Gleeman and the geek.
0:04.0	Gleeman and the geek.
0:07.0	And welcome to the Gleeman and the Geek podcast.
0:14.0	We're coming to you live, not live, recorded.
0:17.0	Live on tape.
0:18.0	We're going to live on tape.
0:19.0	In front of a live studio audience from
0:21.3	Joe censors in Bloomington where we are not watching game seven of the world of the
0:26.1	National League Championship series or any baseball whatsoever because kind of an
0:32.9	anticlimactic championship series in my mind and I'm here with Aaron Gleman.
0:38.9	Hey, how are you, John?
0:40.1	I'm good. How are you doing?
0:41.1	I'm good. We're watching hockey instead.
0:42.9	Monday Night Football is about to start and we have our first out-of-town guest that we flew in.
0:46.8	I mean, obviously we have a huge budget so we did first class all the way.
0:50.2	We got him in a four-star hotel.
0:51.7	I did fly first class.
0:53.0	And is it a four-star hotel. I did fly first class, so it works. And is it a four-star hotel? Yeah, no. No. It's a four-by-four hotel. That's Jason Collette from DeRays Bay, baseball prospectus. Rotowire. What else? Game Day Program and Scorecard. Do that. What's the radio station down there that you're on? I'm no longer with the radio station. I'm a free agent. All right. Free agent, radio man. Good, good, good. I had to open up my opportunities. Yes. Delman Young Fad Club member. Yeah, number one fan club right there. Let's see what else. That's probably enough plugs, I guess. But yeah, so we brought him in. I figure we're going to spend about half the podcast talking about Delman. And we'll talk about Jason Bartlett for the next 20 minutes after that. And then Eduardo Marlin will wrap that up with about 15, 20 minutes on him. Rob Delaney. Yeah, Rob Delaney, we could talk about. We get there to Rob Delaney. We love Big Sweaty. There's probably a lot of, although he's a free agent, right? He is. Actually, I want to start with Rob Delaney, actually, because we've got some actual Twins news, right? There were some 40-man roster decisions made. One of them was dropping Anthony Slamma from the 40-man roster. I think it's the only one that you could really say was at all a little, you know,
2:04.5	where there was any upside whatsoever associated with the player?
2:07.5	Anthony Slamma put up basically video game numbers in high A and maybe even double A ball.
2:13.1	Even triple A.
2:13.8	He was pretty good at triple A, too.
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