It is Monday, February 5th, 2026. This is another offseason edition of baseball today.

That is my man, Trevor Ploup. I am Chris Rose, producer Dan, along for the ride as well,

as we have arrived safely at the first baseball playing month of the year. Are you ready?

No, not at all. Every time spring training is here, I'm like, oh my gosh, what happened? What happened to the off season? Oh, I see. I'm excited about it. Yeah, you should be. I mean, I guess you're not ready because you were too busy hanging out and the beautiful beaches in Cabo with all of your chummy buddies. Look, you're making, is Matthew Stafford jealous that you're hanging out with his linebacker, Nate Landman? He might have taken that picture right there. We were just so happy, man. That's a Wahoo. And we got to eat that fish later in the day, which is awesome, man. Shout out Nate Landman. What a guy. Oh, come on. Is that you and Claussen going here? It's me and J.C. right there. Yeah, on nine at El Dorado. I think we, we were playing best ball. I might have birded that one. We were happy. Can we clean it up and maybe put a collared shirt on? That's not what you do, not in Cabo. All right. Chris, act like you've been there before I have been there but

with this sort of dad bod and it's only getting worse I saw your little segment you and you and

story Ali taking shots at me wishing me a happy 55th birthday and then saying gosh what the hell

happened to him well we dude not, Chris, the picture from 2021 or whatever that we sent out, it looks like all of us are 10 years younger. That the camera was amazing. Yeah, it's good lighting. Let's be honest. It was good lighting. You can check out that addition to talk with baseball. if you want to know what we're getting at.

All right, we got a ton to get to.

There's some signings.

There's some stuff going on in the world baseball classic.

Let's start with a tip of the cap to Livy Dunn.

You know, anytime in a relationship, the thing that makes it grow is you want to make each other better.

So she decided to stand in there and face a pitch from her boyfriend

and reigning Syung Award winner in the National League Paul Skeens. Now, granted, she is backed up to

about Mississippi from the plate. I don't know if I would have the you know what's to stand in there,

but she did. With a guy like paul you would because these

guys i mean they're so pinpoint with that ball in their hands so like you'd be all right if it was

a guy that doesn't typically throw yeah get out of the way but i am a little scared for livy right

there yeah as i'm not too i'm not too sure if one did slip i'm not too sure she would know

to like turn in no a lot of people turn this way. Yeah, most people don't know which way to turn. John Kruk always taught me that. He said, you know, I only got hit by two pitches in my career. I think that's what he said. He said, because they used to teach us how to get hit by pitches. He goes, they don't do that anymore. So kudos to Livy for doing her thing. They're a fun couple, man. They are fun. They had a great offseason, did a lot of traveling, did some cool sports stuff. So we can't wait to see him in spring training with his Pittsburgh pirates and see where that young staff and a few signings take them. We thought maybe the guy we're going to lead the show off with was going to be a Pittsburgh

Pirate. Instead, he is returning home to the place where he spent seven seasons.

Eugenio Suarez inked a one-year deal, $15 million with a mutual option for 2027.

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