Baseball Isn’t Boring

With teams and fans starting to zero in on the Major League Baseball trade deadline, it was a good time to resurface a couple of quick conversations Bradfo had with Chaim Bloom and Zac Gallen. The Red Sox Chief Baseball Officer gives us an idea of what decision-makers are thinking when it comes to wheeling and dealing this time of year, while the Arizona ace simply explains what it is like to be dealt.

Appearing on the Baseball Isn't Boring podcast, Rangers hitting coach Tim Hyers talked with Bradfo and the impact Nathan Eovaldi has made with the red-hot Rangers, looking back at their time together in Boston in the process. Hyers also throws out his favorite pinch-hitter when talking about the art of pinch-hitting: Brock Holt.

With the biggest series of the young season coming up - the Texas Rangers vs. the Tampa Bay Rays - it was a good time to take a deep dive into why the Rangers have become one of the elite teams in Major League Baseball. Bradfo sits down with Texas hitting coach Tim Hyers to get his perspective on his team's excellence so far this season, including some unique insight into the impact manager Bruce Bochy has had on the group. Listen and learn heading into the showdown at Tropicana Field.

There is a lot of buzz in baseball right now, with the new rules and regulations being one of the constant sources of conversation. But one group of voices we haven't heard a whole lot of during this year of turning baseball inside-out have been then umpires. That's why you should listen to longtime umpire Jim Joyce offer a very unique perspective when it comes to what all of these out-of-nowhere changes mean for those trying to enforce them. Add in an electric Elly De La Cruz home run call and you've got quite a podcast.

How does it feel for Clint Frazier to walk back into Yankee Stadium as an opposing player? Well, there's nobody better to talk about that than the man himself, White Sox outfielder Clint Frazier. The Former Top Prospect sits down with Bradfo to reveal exactly why he feels better now than he has felt in years, with a large focus on his recovery from lingering concussion symptoms.

Both Michael Kopech and Clint Frazier were first-rounders, Kopech being selected with the 33rd overall pick in 2014, and Frazier representing the No. 5 selection the year before. Both have landed with the White Sox after experiencing more than their fair share of bumps in the road. Bradfo sits down with Kopech for a revealing discussion on his path to this point, which has the righty pitching perhaps better than ever. We then here from Frazier, who was making his return to Yankee Stadium, a place he was supposed to be New York's next big star. On a day where Jacob deGrom got the news he would be needing another Tommy John surgery, it only felt right this podcast tackled the reality of adversity that hits in all kinds of ways for big leaguers.

How do the Rays do it when it comes to making pitchers the best versions of themselves? Well, there's nobody better to talk about the process with than veteran reliever Jake Diekman. The lefty sits down with Bradfo to reveal exactly how things are done in what is Diekman's seventh organization, and how it is different from the rest of Major League Baseball.

Shawn Spradling is back with another episode of 'WBC Central' and he has a big guest joining him to answer your questions, MLB dot com's Michael Clair! What questions did they answer? What stories did they tell? Tune in to find out!

One of the great mysteries of Major League Baseball is unlocking how the Tampa Bay Rays continuously take pitchers and find a way to make them into a better version of themselves. Bradfo sits down with Rays pitching coach Kyle Snyder and newly-acquired veteran Jake Diekman to uncover the mystery of how Tampa Bay does things. If you want to get to the botto of how the best team in the majors got there, this is your podcast.

Kevin Cash is not only the manager of the most successful team in Major League Baseball this season, but he is also the second-longest tenured skipper in all of baseball despite being just 45 years old. Cash sits down with Bradfo to reveal the details of exactly how he was hired by Tampa Bay in late 2014, with some juicy details along the way. It's a great way to educate yourself when it comes to the origins of this current Rays run.