Episode 550: Free Agent Starting Pitcher Tiers
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2021
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Aaron and John break down the free agent starting pitcher market into four tiers, discuss the Twins hiring 31-year-old David Popkins as their new hitting coach, welcome Parker Hageman for a cameo about Joe Ryan, and talk about the McDonald's dollar menu for some reason.
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| 0:00.0 | Green Man and the Geek |
| 0:11.5 | Green Man and the Geek |
| 0:14.0 | Green Man and the Geek |
| 0:18.0 | Talking baseball every week And the geek And welcome |
| 0:21.2 | And the geek |
| 0:21.4 | Talking baseball |
| 0:21.6 | Every week |
| 0:24.4 | Because they're cleaning |
| 0:27.5 | And the geek |
| 0:30.7 | And the geek |
| 0:30.8 | And welcome to |
| 0:32.2 | Cleaming the geek |
| 0:33.5 | I guess it's the free age of starting pitching edition |
| 0:36.3 | Yeah |
| 0:36.7 | This is a We're starting the off, even before the offseason is starting. I've been wondering something. Who are you? I am John Bonas of Twinsdaily.com. Oh, my. And with me, Aaron Gleeman of the Athletics. Yeah. Does it get annoying that I do that? And we've got, sort of a special guest coming out today. Parker Hageman of Twins Bailey.com, sure. |
| 0:58.4 | In the PBR podcast, not PAP's Blue Ribbon. John said to me, hey, Parker's doing something with PBR. And I thought, that makes sense. Parker loves, you know, I don't want to say low-end beer, but |
| 1:12.1 | inexpensive beers. And I thought, yeah, that sounds like a perfect fit. It turns out it's |
| 1:16.6 | the prep baseball report. Also a perfect fit, but just less obvious of one. We had Parker, |
| 1:24.1 | who is my favorite, no offense to you, twins writer, analyst, whatever, and has been for a long time. |
| 1:31.1 | We had him on the Patreon podcast for like an hour and a half of just pure nerd out, mechanics and coaching. |
| 1:39.2 | Kepler's swing and Joe Ryan's fastball. |
| 1:42.0 | And so we thought this was really good. |
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