Pitchers Free Agency Preview & Predictions

Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast)

Jomboy Media

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to talking baseball. We did the hitters. It's time to do the pitchers.
0:07.2	They get money. They get paid. They get laid. Let's talk ball.
0:15.0	Zach Lattel. I can't have secondary lead.
0:23.3	That's tough.
0:24.3	I watched Jimmy's breakdown.
0:27.2	Hello and welcome to talking baseball,
0:29.5	present you by Seat Geek.
0:31.5	I am Jake Storelli.
0:32.7	That is Trevor Plouffe.
0:34.0	We got Max on the ones and twos today.
0:37.1	I think Rob's being dad of the year
0:39.7	today. So we're proud of him. And I mean, we are hitters, sure, but that means we have to know
0:47.5	the pitchers, even better than our fellow hitter brother. And Trevor Plouf, how are you doing?
0:54.0	Jakey boy, I'm doing doing well I'm excited to talk about
0:56.3	these pitchers again like the hitters group I think there's you know there's there's a lot of guys
1:01.5	here that can help teams probably more again than I realized we're free agents there's one huge
1:07.8	talking point up there in Toronto that I can't wait to pick your brain on.
1:12.5	We kind of hit on it before the show a little bit, but I want to get your thoughts on it.
1:16.6	But yeah, this is, it's always an interesting time because, again, as we go through these lists,
1:22.0	every team would like to add some starting pitching.
1:25.6	Now, the caveat is, where do these guys end up? Where do they
1:30.5	fit the best? Where's the guy like Framber, who's a ground ball pitcher? Where does he fit best?
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