Rain Delay Radio: A Baseball Podcast

In the 10th episode of RBaseball Weekly Louis and Martin chat about the Tatis extension, Tim Tebow's retirement, and the other various signings from around the league. Then, Andy and Jimmy return with Silly Baseball Storytime with the Minor Leaguer and the Potato. To close the episode, Mazz and Deej interview Fangraphs Senior Writer, ESPN Contributor, and ZiPS creator Dan Szymborski to talk about the ZiPS projection system, its history, and its outlook on the 2021 season.

23:00 The Minor Leaguer and the Potato

49:40 Interview with Dan Szymborski

In a President's Day edition of RBaseball Weekly, Andy and Louis break down the changes to the rules (and the baseball) for the 2021 season as well as the shift in the minor leagues, as well as breaking down the long list of transactions from last week. Then Louis interviews Twins Front Office Analyst Ethan Moore about getting an analytics job with an MLB team and the future of pitching development.

36:40 - Interview with Ethan Moore

In this week's episode of RBaseball Weekly, Louis and Andy break down all the heavy news and the lighter Trevor Bauer trolling news from the week as well as a wrap up of signings. Then Mazz sits down with user BleaklyPositive and discusses how the Rockies have been one of the most moral front offices in baseball as well as looking at some other ethical hypotheticals. Finally, Bizz and Jimmy sit down with former MLB pitcher and Hall of Fame candidate Billy Wagner to talk about his wrong-handed throwing, college career, and some highlights from his time in the Big Leagues (and his alpacas).

Thanks to users bobichetteismydaddy, Nolan-, futhatsy, CaptainSolo96, and atoms12123 for their question suggestions for Billy Wagner!

24:20 - Rocky Morality 

49:20 - Interview with Billy Wagner

In the latest episode of the podcast from the baseball subreddit, Louis and Deej look at all the signings and trades from the last week, especially from the Central divisions, before handing things to Andrew and user Skraxx to talk about the Rockies fans' perspective on the Arenado trade and the Colorado Front Office. Finally, Mazz and Martin interview Bailey, better known as Foolish Baseball on YouTube and Twitter, about creating and maintaining a YouTube channel centered around baseball.

New theme music this week from Chuck Leiss.

26:05 - Andrew and Skraxx talk Rockies Front Office

44:35 - Interview with Foolish Baseball

In Episode 6, Louis and Deej remember Don Sutton and Hank Aaron before diving into Ken Rosenthal's terrible twitter week, along with looking at the Springer and Brantley deals. Then Andrew brings back Andy and Jeremy for another story-filled round of baseball trivia on the pitchers who gave up famous homers. Finally, Mazz joins Louis in interviewing Fangraphs Senior Writer and JAWS inventor Jay Jaffe on his Hall of Fame voting process, the character clause and Schilling, and his thoughts on the Hall of Fame voting system. Thanks to r/baseball users voitss, E70M, liljakeyplzandthnx, and kingfiasco for their questions for Jay Jaffe that were used in some form.

22:30 - Trivia Segment TBNL

39:40 - Interview with Jay Jaffe

In this week's RBaseball Weekly episode, Louis and Mazz look at the big moves from around MLB from the last week, chat about the massive price of a Mickey Mantle card, and look at MLB's rule changes for the next year. Then, Andrew harkens back to his trivia podcast days with a round of baseball trivia with trivia masters Andy and Jeremy. Finally, Jimmy and Martin sit down with Sporting News writer Ryan Fagan about his Hall of Fame voting process, and his love of baseball cards.

19:22 - Trivia Segment TBNL

35:30 - Interview with Ryan Fagan

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In this week's episode of RBaseball Weekly, Louis and Mazz briefly discuss the late great Tommy Lasorda, Pine Tar on pitchers, and the Mariners playoff drought. Then Andy, Deej, and Martin talk about what could Mike Trout possibly do to not be a Hall of Famer, before Martin, Mazz, and Deej take an in depth look at the Mets-Indians trade from this past week.

14:40 - Can Mike Trout play his way out of the Hall of Fame?

24:22 - Met/Indians trade discussion

In the third episode of RBaseball Weekly - Louis and Martin welcome the new year looking at baseball examples of if things could get worse, as well as review the subreddit's Hall of Fame Ballot. Then Martin, Andy, and Deej break down the moves from the Padres from earlier last week. Finally, Bizz and Louis interview Pirates play-by-play announcer Joe Block about the game calling process, how Covid affected it, the Pirates future, and some great stories from his days in the minors and with Bob Uecker. 

14:20 - Padres moves discussion.

29:30 - Interview with Joe Block

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In the second episode of RBaseball Weekly - Louis, Rob, and Andy talk about the late great Phil Niekro, CC Sabathia's new documentary, and the BIGGEST TRADE of the offseason (from before we finished recording less than an hour before the Snell trade - more on that next week).  Andy and Mazz then air out some 2020 grievances in true Festivus fashion, before we turn things over to Bizz and Jimmy who have an enthralling interview with sports graphic design guru Todd Radom. Todd's work includes creating the graphics for the Washington Nationals and Los Angeles Angels as well as the official logos for Super Bowl XXXVIII and the 2009 NBA All Star Game, among many others.

Skip ahead to 25:37 for Festivus, and 41:37 for our interview with Todd Radom.

Episode Reddit Thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/klrlg9/episode_2_of_rbaseball_weekly_is_live_cc_doc_talk/

Todd Radom's Shop: https://www.toddradom.com/shop

In the first episode of RBaseball Weekly we discuss some of the latest MLB news, most notably the Mets new ownership with Louis, Martin and Mazz. Then we hear about a heist of ridiculous proportions (relative to baseball) from Andy and Jimmy, before Louis and Jimmy interview the President of the Negro League Museum, Bob Kendrick, days after MLB declares the Negro Leagues from 1920-1948 to be Major Leagues.

18:07 - Albert Belle's Corked Bat Story

49:26 - Interview with Bob Kendrick