Twelve teams left, playoff baseball has arrived.

The bracket is set, so we start where the whole thing starts: four Wild Card series, 2 PM to past midnight on Tuesday and Wednesday. Six of these twelve playoff teams bottomed out at some point. The Phillies were 9-19. The White Sox were 11-17. The Astros were 19-30 and won a division at 81-81, the worst full-season division winner in the history of baseball, taking the title off the 2005 Padres after 21 years. The Padres themselves were 50-53 on July 24 and went 41-18 the rest of the way.

Red Sox and Yankees for the second October in a row, Schlittler on the mound with a 1.95 ERA and two earned runs in his career against Boston, and Aaron Judge having played seven games since May. Do we see Judge take the field in the Wild Card round? Plus all four series broken down with the pitching matchups and head-to-heads, our Wild Card predictions, and an end-of-season nugget run with Verlander's goodbye, Colson Montgomery's 225 strikeouts, Gabriel Moreno's batting title, Mickey Gasper outhomering Vlad Jr., and the Angels finally losing 100.

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CHAPTERS
(00:00) Intro & The Bracket is Set!
(08:50) Red Sox at Yankees Preview
(20:53) White Sox at Astros Preview
(33:33) Phillies at Braves Preview
(42:27) Cubs at Padres Preview
(52:45) Wild Card Predictions
(54:22) End of Season Stat Nuggets
(01:01:16) Statpad

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One win in the Bronx and the Rays are AL East champs, and Cam Schlittler just finished the best road season by an American League pitcher since Walter Johnson.

We open with an apology. We've been dragging River Ryan since the Skubal trade as the guy who wasn't enough, and then he throws three scoreless in his Tigers debut with a sinker-changeup combination that broke the group chat at midnight.

Schlittler finished with a 1.16 road ERA across 17 road starts, 24 starts allowing one earned run or none, and 7.1 bWAR that leads every player in the American League. Aaron Judge is back on the IL with a calf strain and the Yankees are 48-41 without him. Walbert Ureña has 16 starts allowing one run or none at age 22, the most since Dwight Gooden in 1985. Ronald Acuña Jr. hit a go-ahead grand slam in Houston for his third career 20-20 season, and Fernando Tatis Jr. is hitting .286 with a .931 OPS and 20 home runs since July 1 after hitting one homer in his first 245 plate appearances.

Then the part that actually decides the season. Six games left, six spots open, and almost every race comes down to a tiebreaker nobody's talking about. Cleveland has to finish with a better record than Chicago in every race they're in, because a tie does them no good anywhere. Houston owns the tiebreaker on Texas in a division that might produce the worst division winner in history. Who's actually getting in?

Plus the new Rays road grays, Brody Hopkins posting the best single-game reliever proStuff+ in baseball twice in four days, Miguel Vargas, Oneil Cruz going 20-28 in 93 games, the Angels trying to avoid the first 100-loss season in franchise history, and a Dominant Starts trivia game before Statpad.

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CHAPTERS
(00:00) Intro & River Ryan Tigers Debut
(04:50) Rays New Uniforms
(08:39) Brody Hopkins GOAT?
(12:03) Cam Schlittler Final Road Numbers
(18:44) Walbert Ureña Flowers
(24:11) Acuña's Monster September
(28:35) Oneil Cruz Great Year
(33:30) Fernando Tatis Jr. Enormous 2nd Half
(36:32) Playoff Scenarios Around the League
(50:09) Dominant Starts Trivia
(58:59) Statpad

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Two weeks left and four teams in the AL East are playing like monsters. We get into all of it.

We start in 2001. The Hall of Fame posted the standings board from September 11 of that year, and the Mariners were 104-40 while the A's sat 30 games over .500 and 17 games out. Today a 75-75 team is leading the AL West. From there into the current picture: the Yankees and Dodgers both clinched Monday night, the White Sox took Game 1 in Cleveland to lock the tiebreaker, and the Rays have the only lineup in baseball with five guys at an .800 OPS or better.

Then the argument we actually wanted to have. Cam Schlittler has a better ERA+ than Clayton Kershaw's 2014 MVP season and he's done it in four more starts. He's third in all of baseball in bWAR. Is there a world where a pitcher gets MVP votes again?

Plus Aaron Judge's first home run since May 24, Joey Votto arguing Yankee Stadium has cost Judge multiple 70-homer seasons, PCA three steals from 40/40, Chris Sale passing deGrom for the best strikeout-to-walk ratio in the history of the sport, the Rays turning Freddy Peralta back into an ace in four weeks, Josue De Paula's 85 mph bat speed, and Farm Animals.

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CHAPTERS
(00:00) Intro & AI Mitch Voit
(03:39) 2001 Standings vs. Current Day
(05:34) AL & NL Playoff Picture
(12:27) Rays Powerhouse
(14:22) Concerned about Judge?
(17:48) Cam Schlittler for MVP?
(25:03) PCA 40/40 Check In
(25:54) NL Wild Card Race & Chris Sale
(30:41) Rays Elite Pitching Lab
(34:10) Josue De Paula is Up and Mashing
(37:24) Farm Animals
(45:00) Statpad

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Shohei Ohtani told reporters Monday night that he's done pitching this season. About two hours later, Pete Crow-Armstrong hit his 41st home run in Milwaukee. We start there. Then: Aaron Judge is back after 100 days on the shelf, Cam Schlittler's road ERA is doing something no pitcher in American League history has ever done, Yordan Alvarez is holding all three Triple Crown categories (for now), Rafael Devers is chasing a number no Giant has ever put up, the White Sox are somehow in first place two years after losing 121 games, a 32-year-old journeyman threw a perfect game in Triple-A, and we've got three Farm Animals of the Week including a 20-year-old undrafted kid with 37 homers.

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CHAPTERS
(00:00) Intro & Ohtani
(03:04) PCA All Time Season
(09:32) Aaron Judge Is Back
(13:27) Cam Schlittler Is Your AL Cy Young
(20:34) Huge Postseason Performances from Young Guys
(23:18) Yordan Triple Crown Watch
(25:02) Will Devers Hit 600 Homers?
(30:07) White Sox 2 Year Turnaround
(37:17) Pannone Perfect Game
(39:30) Farm Animals of the Week
(48:09) StatPad

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Arte Moreno sold the Angels to Stan Kroenke, Tarik Skubal stole the Tigers' espresso machine and blamed his wife, and Cal Raleigh might hit 30 homers in the worst season of his life. Plus, Trent Grisham is somehow unplayable on both sides of the ball, Paul Goldschmidt is still crushing lefties at 38, and Mickey Gasper's historic August. We got a stacked wave of September call-ups as Ethan Salas, Lázaro Montes and YoYo Morales make it to the show. And we hit our Farm Animals of the Week, plus a home run trivia game.

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CHAPTERS
(00:00) Intro & Skubal Espresso Machine
(04:34) Ketel Marte's Hat
(07:41) Kroenke Buys the Angels
(11:27) Angels 100-Loss Record
(15:18) Cal Raleigh 30 HR Season?
(19:48) Trent Grisham is Unplayable
(28:10) Paul Goldschmidt vs. Lefties
(30:35) Mickey Gasper's GOAT August
(32:45) Big September Call-Ups
(39:20) Farm Animals of the Week
(48:17) Guess the Home Run Hitter
(57:54) Statpad

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Squidward tombstone cards are outselling real rookie cards, the Astros parted ways with GM Dana Brown with a month left in a division race, and the best pitching prospect in baseball made his debut. Plus, the wide-open NL Rookie of the Year race (why no Carson Benge love?), Nolan McLean joining absurd company, our four biggest September call-up candidates, Farm Animals of the Week, and Giancarlo Stanton somehow injuring his OTHER calf.

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CHAPTERS
(00:00) Intro & Spongebob Card Mania
(06:21) Astros Part Ways with GM Dana Brown
(09:56) Ohtani Pitching Timeline
(14:08) Kade Anderson Finally Debuts for Mariners
(19:31) Carson Benge for NL ROY?
(25:15) Nolan McLean is the Real Deal
(29:12) Biggest Impact September Call Ups
(37:23) Farm Animals of the Week
(44:45) Giancarlo The Baby Deer
(47:28) Statpad

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Joshua Báez became the first player in MLB history to homer in his first three career at-bats — and that's just the cold open. Boots, Karl, and Dello break down the wildest week in baseball: George Lombard Jr.'s Yankees call-up, CJ Abrams getting moved off shortstop, a five-team AL Wild Card scuffle, why Seattle needs to free Kade Anderson, and the two-horse NL MVP race between Pete Crow-Armstrong and Shohei Ohtani.

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CHAPTERS
(00:00) Intro: Joshua Báez Has Arrived
(06:30) George Lombard Jr. Gets the Call
(12:05) CJ Abrams Moves to Second Base
(15:15) Injury Report: Swanson, Arenado, Yankees
(19:38) Steroid Era Callback
(23:26) AL Wild Card Chaos
(36:42) Free Kade Anderson
(41:03) Surprising Seasons
(45:49) Historic NL MVP Race: PCA vs. Ohtani
(48:42) Farm Animals of the Week
(52:50) StatPad

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The 2026 MLB trade deadline came and went like a tornado, and we're here to sort through the wreckage. The Dodgers went out and grabbed Tarik Skubal to build the scariest rotation in baseball, the Red Sox landed Adley Rutschman, the Phillies added Luis Arraez, and a dozen contenders reshaped the pennant races overnight. We break down every move that mattered, the ones that didn't, and who actually won the weekend.

Deals we get into: Skubal to LA, Rutschman to Boston, Arraez to Philly, Jose Soriano to Toronto, Luke Weaver to Pittsburgh, Gausman & Holmes to the Cubs, Peralta to the Rays, Dustin May to Milwaukee — plus the Guardians, Astros, and Braves, whether front offices folded after the Skubal bomb went off, and whether Ohtani's done pitching this year.

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⏱️ CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
5:17 Brewers: Deadline's Biggest Losers?
6:46 Cubs Load Up
8:10 Friends of the Pod Get Dealt
10:16 Guardians Make Their Move
12:26 Yankees Stand Pat
15:12 Red Sox & Rays Bolster for a Run
21:49 Luke Weaver on the Move
24:52 AJ Preller at It Again
26:21 Jose Soriano Dealt
28:55 Luis Arraez to the Phillies
30:42 Mariners Clearing Room for Kade Anderson?
34:00 Astros Are on Fire
35:26 Did the Braves Do Enough?
37:18 Did Front Offices Fold After Skubal?
40:44 Is Ohtani Done Pitching This Year?
43:56 Final Deadline Thoughts
46:32 StatPad

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The trade deadline is bearing down and the boys have OPINIONS. Dello goes off on what the Yankees HAVE to do — and the catch-22 that's got them completely stuck. We figure out where Tarik Skubal and Mason Miller actually land, and talk about which stars are getting moved before deadline. Plus, are the Twins going to be sellers? The boys discuss the Cubs and Pete Crow-Armstrong, Farm Animals of the Week, some well-earned Yordan Alvarez love, and two games to send you home.

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⏱️ CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
4:44 Yankees Trade Deadline Rant
18:20 Where Does Tarik Skubal Land?
22:09 Where Does Mason Miller Land?
25:27 Lindor, Arraez & Ketel Marte — Who's Getting Moved?
30:34 Are the Twins Sellers?
31:41 Cubs & Pete Crow-Armstrong aka PCA
35:22 Farm Animals of the Week
43:01 Yordan Alvarez Love
44:28 Career Earnings Game
49:52 StatPad Game

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The second half of the MLB season is here. Dello, Boots, and Karl put their division winner, wild card, and player award picks on record. The guys discuss what's wrong with Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Kyle Tucker. Luis Arraez and Chase Burns get their flowers. Are Matt Williams and Esmerlyn Valdez the early front-runners for Favorite Player of the Show?
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CHAPTERS 
 0:00 Intro
 1:34 First Ballot Hall of Famer or Just Richie Sexson?
 3:41 Comparing 5-Year Stretches
 8:32 Division Winners & Wild Card Picks
 44:54 Individual Award Picks
 56:28 Luis Arraez Respect
 58:27 What's Wrong With Vladimir Guerrero Jr. & Kyle Tucker
 1:03:00 Farm Animals of the Week
 1:11:42 StatPad
 
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