The Windup: A show about Baseball

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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

15 HR. AGO

The Roundtable | Who actually has a shot to sign Juan Soto?

Welcome to The Roundtable! Sam Miller is in this week with Andy and Grant. They talk about if the MLB awards week is actually exciting or not, what are the Giants doing, what's the latest on Juan Soto and what to make of the Rays being interested in Soto, supposedly. -Follow Grant on X/Twitter: @GrantBrisbee -Follow Andy on X/Twitter: @ByMcCullough -Follow Sam on X/Twitter: @SamMillerBB Hosts: Grant Brisbee, Andy McCullough & Sam Miller Executive Producer: Brian Smith Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

54 min
2 DAYS AGO

The Walkoff | Early Offseason & Award Season Thoughts

Welcome to The Walkoff with Stephen Nesbitt and Chad Jennings. The guys break down some of the big stories of the early offseason. It is award season, so the guys give their thoughts on who might win some of the big awards. They also talk about the new Hall of Fame candidates and talk about some of the other big stories of the past few weeks. -Follow Stephen on X/Twitter: @stephenjnesbitt -Follow Chad on X/Twitter: @ChadJennings22 Hosts: Stephen Nesbitt & Chad Jennings Executive Producer: Brian Smith Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

57 min
NOV 11

Starkville | Athletic Beat Writer Offseason Preview & Predictions

Starkville | The Athletic's Dodger beat writer Fabian Ardaya, Phillies beat writer Matt Gelb & Yankees beat writer Brendan Kuty join Starkville this week to preview the upcoming offseason and give some predictions on where some of the big names will go, who will surprise and who will spend the most. Trivia question from Natan Tamari- In the seasons 2021-2024, there were 6 pitchers to throw 720+ innings (180 per season), and have a total ERA below 4.00. Can you name them? Follow Jayson on Twitter: @jaysonst Follow Doug on Twitter: @DougGlanville Hosts: Jayson Stark & Doug Glanville Producer: Brian Smith Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1h 11m
NOV 8

The Roundtable | Final thoughts on the Dodgers winning the World Series & some offseason talk

Welcome to The Roundtable! The Athletic's Dodgers writer Fabian Ardaya is in this week with Andy and Grant. They talk the Dodgers winning the World Series and if was really that surprising. Also, they talk about where some of the big name free agents might land this offseason and what is the Giants plan with Buster Posey leading the front office. -Follow Grant on X/Twitter: @GrantBrisbee -Follow Andy on X/Twitter: @ByMcCullough -Follow Fabian on X/Twitter: @FabianArdaya Hosts: Grant Brisbee, Andy McCullough & Fabian Ardaya Executive Producer: Brian Smith Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

54 min
NOV 7

The Walkoff | Breaking down the MLB Top 40 Free Agent Big Board

Welcome to The Walkoff with Stephen Nesbitt and Chad Jennings. The guys break down The Athletic's MLB Top 40 Free Agent Big Board article that just came out today. They talk about some of the big names in the Top 10 and where they could go and they look for some possible sleeper players that could really help out some teams. Here is the the Top 40 Free Agent Big Board article- https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5891633/2024/11/07/2024-25-mlb-top-40-free-agmlb-top-40-free-agents-2024-big-boardent-big-board-welcome-to-the-juan-soto-sweepstakes/ -Follow Stephen on X/Twitter: @stephenjnesbitt -Follow Chad on X/Twitter: @ChadJennings22 Hosts: Stephen Nesbitt & Chad Jennings Executive Producer: Brian Smith Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

52 min
NOV 1

The Walkoff | Dodgers win the World Series

Welcome to The Walkoff with Stephen Nesbitt and Chad Jennings. The guys talk about the Dodgers winning the World Series in 5 games vs the Yankees. They talk about all the stars who did their thing and the role players who stepped up. They talk about the amazing story of Freddie Freeman's season that ends with the World Series MVP trophy. Also, they talk about what is next for the Yankees and Dodgers this offseason. -Follow Stephen on X/Twitter: @stephenjnesbitt -Follow Chad on X/Twitter: @ChadJennings22 Hosts: Stephen Nesbitt & Chad Jennings Executive Producer: Brian Smith Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

58 min
OCT 30

The Roundtable | Yankees stay alive, but for how long

Welcome to The Roundtable! Sam Miller is in this week with Andy and Grant. They talk the Yankees big Game 4 win to stay alive in the series, why is Judge struggling and what have we really learned so far from the first 4 games. Also, they try to explain the crazy fan interaction with Mookie Betts in Game 4 when a fan tried to steal Mookie's glove. -Follow Grant on X/Twitter: @GrantBrisbee -Follow Andy on X/Twitter: @ByMcCullough -Follow Sam on X/Twitter: @SamMillerBB Hosts: Grant Brisbee, Andy McCullough & Sam Miller Executive Producer: Brian Smith Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

55 min
OCT 28

Starkville | Ned Colletti & Sean Casey review the 1st 2 games of the World Series

Starkville | Ned Colletti & Sean Casey join Starkville this week to talk about where things stand after 2 game of the World Series between the Dodgers and Yankees. They talk about the struggles of Aaron Judge, Ohtani's injury, if the Dodgers pitching is a concern for the rest of the series, how much they think Soto will make this offseason and where he might end up. Strange But True- Freddie Freeman hits an insane walk-off grand slam to win Game 1 of the World Series for the Dodgers. Lot's of strange, but true tidbits came out of it. Trivia will return after the MLB Postseason Follow Jayson on Twitter: @jaysonst Follow Doug on Twitter: @DougGlanville Hosts: Jayson Stark & Doug Glanville Producer: Brian Smith Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

54 min

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Welcome to The Athletic Baseball Show

Coming soon, The Athletic Baseball Show brings you the best of The Athletic on one podcast feed. Ken Rosenthal, Jayson Stark, Doug Glanville, Hunter Pence, Keith Law, Grant Brisbee, Derek VanRiper and more come together four days per week to guide you through the Major League Baseball season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

03/11/2021

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4 min

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427 Ratings

Any chance of getting a Daily Baseball Briefing in 2025?

Oct 8

JPC-Rangers-2023

Any chance of getting a 10 minute ‘Daily Baseball Briefing’? Athletic listeners who are soccer (football) fans get treated to a 10 minute ‘Daily Football Briefing’ every day during the season. It’d be great to have a similar thing for baseball! I do love the shows baseball shows that are here already, especially The Roundtable. Keep it up!
Mostly good pods

Oct 17

Kwbuzz23wk

Starkville is unlistenable but otherwise these are good, well rounded podcasts. Although not understanding the Monty Hall problem is a concern on a podcasts that likes to discuss game theory…
Roundtable x Sam Miller

Oct 16

jabes01

Frickin rips man. So good.
Quality show

Oct 12

Dog Money

The addition of Sam Miller makes a good show even better!!

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