Barstool Sports presents the Starting 9, featuring Jared Carrabis and Dallas Braden, the baseball podcast everyone wants but no one else will give you. This week's first episode features the guys reacting to the Javier Baez/thumbs down/booing the fans controversy; the most recent developments after the weekend in the AL and NL Wild Card races; Shohei Ohtani reaching the 40-HR/20-SB marks; Wander Franco's red-hot run; Salvador Perez's great season; big series starting this week; and the San Diego Padres edition of the Mount Rushmore series.

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