Five and Dive

In Episode 61 Emma and Craig tackle the five teams in the NL Central as we continue our 2020 MLB preview.

1. PECOTA likes the Reds a little bit more than our hosts.

2. PECOTA has a completely reasonable Cubs projection this year. Cubs Twitter might disagree mind you.

3. PECOTA likes the Cardinals a little bit less than our hosts.

4. Does Craig need to update his Billy Beane/Max Scherzer tweet to be about the Brewers?

5. The Pirates: Chris Stratton chatin'

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In Episode 60 Emma and Craig tackle the five teams in the AL Central as we continue our 2020 MLB preview.

1. The Twins are more good than fun, but they are pretty good. And pretty fun assuming you like dingers.

2. Cleveland hasn't changed the team name to the Lindors yet, but maybe they should.

3. The White Sox are more fun than good. They are plenty fun though.

4. The Tigers have exciting young pitchers like Casey Manning, Matt Mize, and Spencer Turnbrurl (sp?)

5. The Royals aren't particularly fun or good.

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In Episode 59 (don't listen to Craig), Jeffrey and Craig tackle the five teams in the AL West as we resume our 2020 MLB preview.

1. What a weird year this is going to be for the Astros. They are probably still very good, but maybe not third-best-team-in-baseball good

2. The Athletics have very good uniforms, but the rest of the aesthetics aren't so good.

3. The Los Angeles Adells of Anaheim, IMO

4. As usual we like the Rangers more than we should, and Craig definitely thinks Mike Minor is
for real.

5. The Mariners: Sorry, Meg

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In Episode 58 (don't listen to Craig), Jeffrey and Craig tackle the five teams in the NL East as we resume our 2020 MLB preview.

1. The Washington Nationals are kind of boring as World Series champs go

2. The Mets are never boring, but might have a dearth of starting pitching for a change (this was even before Jacob deGrom tweaked his back).

3. The Braves are probably better than this (this was even before they signed Yasiel Puig).

4. The Phillies bullpen doesn't look so hot, but Spencer Howard is one to watch,

5. The Marlins are projected to win 27 games. This is apparently the worst thing to ever happen.

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In Episode 57, Emma and Craig tackle five more (mostly) baseball topics.

1. My Mind Is Telling Me No...: Ambivalence still reigns over the 2020 season, but there is baseball on TV now, sort of.

2. Situation Normal: All Fucked Up: And here's a bunch of reasons for our ambivalence.

3. There's Always Next Year: Another group of players have opted out of the 2020 season, and they seem to have something in common.

4. Put It On Your Calendar: Also on TV, a primetime schedule announcement show

5. Nashville Hot: There's still talk of two taxi squads in Music City, but perhaps a major-league team is on the horizon too.

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In Episode 56, Bradford, Emma and Craig tackle five more (mostly) baseball topics.

1. Pool Party: A discussion of the 60-player pools and some trends we noticed about them.

2. F You, F You, F You, You’re Cool, and F You, I’m Out: Players opting out

3. Ian Desmond's IG Post: Walking through the issues he brought up in his InstaGram Post.

4. Everything’s Bigger In Texas, Including COVID Spikes: Health roundup, but focus on the Rangers bringing employees back to their offices

5. Thanks I Hate It: Summer Camp terminology and Sponsorship

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In Episode 55, Bradford and Craig tackle five more (mostly) baseball topics.

1. So we beat on, boys against the current, borne ceaselessly back into the town: Baseball is officially back, although it's probably a bad idea and they made the process as messy as possible.

2. Bad Medicine: About it being a bad idea...

3. Let's play, too: The Grand Ole Opry will have a Grand Ole Taxi Squad.

4. Haha, This Sucks, Man: Should baseball be coming back at all?

5. Your Facebook Uncles are Fighting: Normally we'd invoke Rule 1 here, but...

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In Episode 54, Bradford, Emma, and Craig tackle five more (mostly) baseball topics.

1. MLB’s Response to George Floyd’s Death: You will be surprised to learn the League still hasn't gotten back to Bradford.

2. An Offer You Literally Can’t Refuse: This is the stupidest day in MLB history, a record that will be broken by every subsequent day in MLB history. Also, Craig should check Twitter less.

3. Bad Medicine: Even if baseball figures out the economics of a restart, there is the pesky matter of the ongoing global pandemic.

4. How Much Can One Playoff Round Cost, Michael? $10?: It's actually, uh, about forty million times that,

5. Thoughts on the MLB Draft: And we wrap things up with some thoughts on the MLB Draft that Craig couldn't think of a pithy title for.

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In Episode 53, Jeffrey and Craig tackle four more (mostly) baseball topics.

1. go ahead. keep screaming "Shut The Fuck Up" at me. it only makes my offers Worse: The negotiations between the League and PA aren't going great, and Rob Manfred will never log off.

2. Draft Resister: We have some takes about the first round of the MLB draft

3. Rule 1: Speaking of draft takes...

4. Removed from that list: Chris Archer has Thoracic Outlet Syndrome and the Pirates are making adjustments to their human capital stock.

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In Episode 52, Craig, Bradford, and Emma tackle five more (mostly) baseball topics.

1. An offer you can refuse: "Max Scherzer throws some high heat to the League's latest economic proposal." - Craig Goldstein

2. Minor Threat: Some teams are furloughing minor leaguers, some teams are cutting them, and a scant few are going to keep paying them, imagine that.

3. What we need right now are athletes: Pro athletes have been deemed essential, what does that even mean?

4. Bad Max: Max Kepler's excuse for his recent instagram posts doesn't really seem all that plausible.

5. The Duality of Franchise History: You know we had to talk about it.

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