Starting 9 Episode #59 - Whit Merrifield

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Barstool Sports

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2018

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Barstool Sports presents the Starting 9, featuring Jared Carrabis and Dallas Braden - the baseball podcast everyone wants but no one else will give you. This week's episode features an interview with the breakout star of the Kansas City Royals, Whit Merrifield, who discusses his unique path to the big leagues, his first memories of when he knew he had truly arrived, the lost art of the stolen base and much more. Dallas and Jared also get into the returns of Chris Sale and Josh Donaldson, Sean Manaea's season-ending surgery and Marcus Stroman's lost season to kick things off, before touching on each and every American League team - all 15 - in a new segment called the Hut Seat, where Dallas and Jared answer questions like “will the bullpen prevent the Red Sox from winning the World Series this season?” and “will Alex Bregman end up having the best career of any current Astros position player?” and many more. Dallas and Jared also answer Twitter questions from the #groundscrew!

You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/starting9

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0:00.0	Hey, starting nine listeners, you can find every episode on Apple podcasts, Spotify or YouTube.
0:05.4	Prime members can listen ad free on Amazon music.
0:08.1	Welcome back to starting nine episode 59.
0:13.6	I can smell it. I can smell it in the air, Dallas. I can smell it, J. Hey.
0:19.0	Hmm. I can smell October. Oh. October quest.
0:24.7	I can smell October from here. We are now somewhat in mid September, which means that post season
0:34.9	baseball is just around the corner. And I think I don't know. Maybe it's maybe it's just
0:41.8	a recent sea bias, but doesn't this year feel like there's a lot of teams that are just just waiting
0:48.6	or have been waiting for quite some time for playoff baseball. Just kind of sitting around.
0:52.1	I'm just waiting. I like close. You know what? I'll, I'm going to do it, Jared.
0:58.5	I'm going to do it just so you don't get the satisfaction of doing what you want.
1:03.6	I want to be the first to congratulate the Boston Red Sox on their clinching of a playoff spot.
1:12.1	It is a nod to what has been the best team.
1:16.6	Statistically speaking, record showing in baseball up into this point.
1:22.2	And I want to acknowledge that, Jared, for a dear friend of mine, a good buddy of mine,
1:30.1	who I do. I keep very near and dear to my heart. Alex Cora. Great guy.
1:36.8	Yes. Yes. That's that's that's been on both pods now. That's why it's the it's the section 510
1:43.9	and the starting nine rub. Yep. It's he's he's a quality human. And he had actually he had
1:51.0	comments made about him. I forget I forget who said this. But oh, you know, actually this is
1:56.6	who said it Bobby Valentine said this about Alex Cora. He said he's seen him make some mature decisions
2:04.8	very early on in his campaign. Yeah. And he said he's also heard him make some mature comments.
2:11.1	And one of the most mature comments he heard him make was a lot of its luck. And we asked him,
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