Five and Dive

In Episode 342, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig discuss five mostly baseball topics, plus intermittently the Michael Busch trade.
1. Jerry's World: Jerry Dipoto didn't really take the holidays off but also now he is back with a vengence against Transaction Analysis writers
2. Rumor Has It: NYC pitching rumors and more than you ever wanted to know about Red Sox fanfest and the Reality TV career of Chad Johnson
3. Around the Horn: Pitchers finding new homes and the Rays making a very Rays trade
4. Extremely We Bought a Zoo voice: We wrote a book: We will now plug that book.
5. Craig and Patrick test their knowledge of the 2023 Baseball Prospectus Annual

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In Episode 341, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig dchat about book fatigue and Christmas music in January before discussing five mostly baseball topics.

1. Shipping Up to and Out of Boston: The Red Sox swap pitchers, Atlanta adds an occasionally healthy ace, and the Braves Foundation gets some more funding.
2. Moving to and then Immediately Leaving Las Vegas: So what exactly is going on with the A's Vegas stadium? Five and Dive investigates and is just more confused.
3. Around the Horn: The Padres fill out their bullpen, the Mets add an outfielder, and we discuss the reporting around Wander Franco's arrest.
4. Thanks I Love It: A Pop Tart Bowl follow up
5. Jeffrey puts his film degree to good use in this week's game

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In Episode 340, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig discuss five mostly baseball topics.

1. We Signed Yamamoto: Well, the Dodgders did, because of course they did.
2. Merry Mitchmas: The Mariners have now replaced one of the bats from their 2023 team
3. Rumor Has It: Mostly Blue Jays talk
4. Around the Horn: Mostly Martin Maldonado talk
5. We acquit ourselves well at the nickname game, although Craig complains about his wifi speed again

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In Episode 339, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig have no banter, but Craig has a plug. Then they discuss five mostly baseball topics.

1.There Is No Such Thing as a Free Agency: The Royals are making moves, but to what end? Plus a roundup of the other signings from the last week
2. Rumor Has It: Mosty Yoshinobu Yamamoto rumors
3. Natty Boh'kay?: The Orioles renew their lease for Camden Yards. For real this time. Mostly.
4. Thanks We Hate It: Ben Verlander is coming for every legend of baseball.
5. Jeffrey demonstrates the Denyi Reyes difference in this episode's game

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In Episode 338, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig have no energy for banter, so just discuss five mostly baseball topics.

1. That's What The Money is For!: Hope you like more contract talk
2. Everybody sell high on Arozarena: The Rays might not be trading Randy, but are probably trading Tyler Glasnow
3. Rumor Has It: All the Yamamoto rumors
4. Around the Horn: Some actual free agent signings and a couple offseason injuries
5. A hastily thrown together game

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In Episode 337, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig discuss five mostly Shohei Ohtani (and Nabil Crismatt) topics.

1. Los Angeles, I'm Yours (Or if you prefer, LA Confidential): Shohei Ohtani is a Dodger for...well, a lot of money
2. Does Anyone Here Know How To Land This Plane: Before that happened though, Friday sure was a day on baseball twitter.
3. The Big Picture: What does this mean on the field and for future major free agents?
4. Around the Horn: Finally we get to the Nabil Crismatt news
5. And we have a very brief Nabil Crismatt game

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In Episode 336, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig fire off some hot honey takes (That's hot "honey takes," not "hot honey" takes) and then discuss five mostly baseball topics.

1. Finally Something Good Happens to the Yankees: They got Juan Soto, eventually
2. Must Not Be Talking to an Angel: Good evening, Shoehi Ohtani was a 24 month sociological study conducted by Harvard University. We are now complete with our study.
3. Rumor Has It: Several of these rumors turned into actual news after Jeffrey started the agenda
4. Around the Horn: Another Yankees trade and a handful of free agent signings
5. An Ohtani-related game

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In Episode 335, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about spicy chicken and large hotels and then discuss five mostly baseball topics.

1. Must Be Talking to an Angel: Teams are talking to Ohtani, he's listening, we're hearing nothing.
2. There's no such thing as a free agency: Credit to all the agents out there, getting their clients major league deals somehow.
3. Rumor Has It: Juan Soto is getting trade again, for what and to who, well that's to be determined. Plus all the other trade rumors out there since nothing is actually happening.
4. Around the Horn: Patrick gets sad about a Mariners move, we celebrate Jim Leyland's, uh, Rockies tenure.
5. We reach a new frontier in Craig getting mad about the game.

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In Episode 334, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about roguelike deckbuilders and coffee and then discuss five mostly baseball topics.

1. Batting .540: The Mariners continue to get slightly cheaper and slightly worse
2. And I don't know why you'd want to play here: The Angels add a couple 2024 roster pieces.
3. Around the Horn: More transactions to round-up, although not that many
4. Thanks I Hate It: An edible mascot
5. Craig shares some of Jeffrey's prospect list season pain in the form of a game.

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In Episode 333, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about Xander Bogaerts' season and then discuss five mostly baseball topics.

1. Nola, no va: Aaron Nola is sticking around in Philadelphia, at least until the end of the decade. What does this mean for the rest of the pitching market and the balance of the Phillies offseason?
2. Fisher and Loathing in Las Vegas: The A's are officially headed to Las Vegas (eventually). Exactly two people are happy about this and neither of them are on the show.
3. Rumor Has It: Some rumored pitching trades, rumored pitching interest, and rumor has it there's Chris Morel chat as well
4. Around the Horn: Two other pitchers of note inked deals with new teams, plus a non-tender and DFA trade wrap-up
5. For once everyone likes the game and it has a dramatic (sort of) finish.

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