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The Athletic's flagship baseball podcast features some of the best writers and thinkers in the game. With rumors, analytics, trivia, prospects, rankings and big name interviews, we've got you covered from Spring Training through the World Series. MONDAY: Starkville with Jayson Stark & Doug Glanville | WEDNESDAY: The Roundtable with Grant Brisbee, Andy McCullough and Marc Carig | FRIDAY: Nesbitt and Friends
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After fast start, can the Royals contend this season?
Starkville | The Royals are off to a good start led by Bobby Witt Jr. and a young core. Club broadcaster Rex Hudler is back to discuss the team's chances to contend and share some of the fun tales from his playing days.
Strange But True: Orioles outfielder Colton Cowser found the fountains in Kansas City twice this week. Once with a home run and once when he tossed the final our of a Craig Kimbrel milestone save into the water. That was a problem!
Trivia from Bill Flannagan: Stephen Strasburg retired with a 113-62 record and a winning percentage of .6457. Since divisional play (1969) only 3 HOF pitchers have finished their careers with a higher winning percentage. Who are they?
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MLB Draft prospect rankings + news with Keith Law
Welcome to The Show to Be Named Later with Stephen Nesbitt and Chad Jennings. This week, Keith Law joins the show discuss the Paul Skenes situation in Pittsburgh and Keith’s MLB Draft top prospects rankings.
Keith’s prospect rankings
https://theathletic.com/5421487/2024/04/18/mlb-draft-2024-prospect-rankings-top-50-keith-law/
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-Follow Chad on X/Twitter: @ChadJennings22
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Behind the curtain of the MLB Power Rankings with Tim Britton
Welcome to The Roundtable! Each week, we will yammer about the biggest topics/stories in MLB. The Athletic's Mets writer Tim Britton is sitting in with Grant and Andy this week. They talk about the process of the MLB Power Rankings, why is Snell struggling, what is going on with the Mets & how Dwight Gooden was a pretty good pitcher
-Follow Grant on X/Twitter: @GrantBrisbee
-Follow Andy on X/Twitter: @ByMcCullough
-Follow Marc on X/Twitter: @MarcCarig
-Follow Tim on X/Twitter: @TimBritton
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Jon Miller on 50 years of broadcasting baseball
Starkville | Jon Miller is celebrating 50 years of broadcaster baseball games this summer. He stopped by Starkville to share some of his favorite stories from a half century behind the microphone.
Strange But True: Tigers third baseman Zach McKinstry had a 3-run error and then gave up a 3-run home run in the same inning last week. When was the last time that happened?
Trivia from Mark Snyderman: This week is the 50th anniversary of Henry Aaron’s 715th home run. He is also baseball’s all-time leader in total bases, with 6,856. Only three other players finished their careers with more than 6,000 total bases. Name them.
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Jackson Holliday's debut + Jock Taxes
Welcome to The Show to Be Named Later with Stephen Nesbitt. This week, Cody Stavenhagen joins the show discuss the latest in the Ippei Mizuhara saga and react to Jackson Holliday’s promotion to the Majors. Then, former major leaguer Jacob Turner joins the show for this week’s “The Cutting Room Floor” to explain the complicated nature of taxes for athletes.
Read Stephen’s story on Jackson Holliday’s debut
https://theathletic.com/5407409/2024/04/11/jackson-holliday-orioles-mlb-debut-matt/
https://theathletic.com/5408717/2024/04/11/ohtani-ippei-mizuhara-fraud-charges/
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The Roundtable | Why are pitcher injuries on the rise, Cardinals adjusting to modern baseball & the A's moving to Sacramento
Welcome to The Roundtable! Each week, we will yammer about the biggest topics/stories in MLB. The Athletic's Cardinals writer Katie Woo is sitting in with Grant and Andy this week. They talk about why the amount of pitcher injuries is on the rise, the Cardinals trying to adjust to modern times and the A's moving from Oakland to Sacramento.
-Follow Grant on X/Twitter: @GrantBrisbee
-Follow Andy on X/Twitter: @ByMcCullough
-Follow Marc on X/Twitter: @MarcCarig
-Follow Katie on X/Twitter: @katiejwoo
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Customer Reviews
The roundtable
Quoting from the most recent episode: “I’m not making a great point here” should be the podcast slogan.
I still like Grant, but this is just dreck. Yikes.
good stuff
look forward to the round table every week. hilarious stuff.
2 good shows, others are sub par at best
3- Show and On deck are good. The other 3 are bad.