Baseballholics Anonymous Ep 81: Joe Morgan is a Freaking Idiot

Groundskeeping

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NPA Coaches Training Weekend

1^st Base (~4:15)

• News:

• Dee Gordon to M's, playing CF
• Braves get busted
• The Giancarlo Sweepstakes
• Oh-tani
  • (Note: This was recorded the night of 12/7; 12 hrs later, Ohtani was an Angel)

2^nd Base (~26:30)

• Extract: Shohei Ohtani
• Sammy: As a Hitter
• Doug: As a Pitcher (~37:15)

3^rd Base (~48:30)

Connect 4

Sammy visiting, Doug home 

Home (~1:05:30) 

• The Hall

Music by The Ghost Notes:

Intro – Hold On

Outro – Never Seems Right

Break Music by PBR Streetgang

Baseballholics Anonymous Ep 80: Now the Record Matters

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First Pitch Arizona, 2017

1^st Base (~6:45)

• News:

• Qualifying Offers
• A's trade Healy for Pagan/Campos

2^nd Base (~30:00)

• Awards!
• RotY
• CY
• MVP

3^rd Base (~52:30)

Read Between the Lies

(Awards edition)

Doug visiting, Sammy home 

Home (~1:12:15) 

• Roy Halladay

Music by The Ghost Notes:

Intro – Hold On

Outro – Never Seems Right

Break Music by PBR Streetgang

Baseballholics Anonymous Ep 79: Springer Gets to Name it Now

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1^st Base (~0:45)

• News:

• We recap Game 7 and the rest of the 2017 World Series

2^nd Base (~29:15)

• Pivotal Decisions from the World Series
• Starting Yu over Kersh
• Morrow every game
• A. Wood TTO
• R. Hill TTO

3^rd Base (~50:30)

The Wonder Years

(World Series edition)

Doug visiting, Sammy home 

Home (~1:09:30) 

• The Pros and Cons of True Outcome Baseball

Music by The Ghost Notes:

Intro – Hold On

Outro – Never Seems Right

Break Music by PBR Streetgang

Baseballholics Anonymous Ep 78:

Dusty Baker Might be a Double-Agent

with special guest Vlad Sedler

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1^st Base (~2:10)

• Season Recap

• LDS Recap

2^nd Base (~32:45)

• Fantasy Extract w/ Vlad
  • How to dominate NFBC

3^rd Base (~56:00)

Whose Line Is It Anyway?

(modified 3-player version) 

Home (~1:17:45) 

• Season Awards
• Playoff Predictions

Music by The Ghost Notes:

Intro – Hold On

Outro – Never Seems Right

Break Music by PBR Streetgang

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1^st Base (~4:30)

• News:

• Waiver Deadline
  • Astros and Angels buy
  • Tigers sell sell sell
• Indians and Diamondbacks go streaking, Dodgers go slumping

2^nd Base (~24:00)

• Extract
• Sammy: Rhys Hoskins
• Doug: Zack Godley (~31:00)

3^rd Base (~41:15)

New Game!

Connect 4

Sammy visiting, Doug home 

Home (~57:30) 

• Hi-tech sign stealing
  • Slimy or savvy?
  • Where's the line?

Walk-off (~1:14:45)

First Pitch Arizona, Nov 2-5 

Music by The Ghost Notes:

Intro – Hold On

Outro – Never Seems Right

Break Music by PBR Streetgang

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1^st Base (~3:00)

• News since last pod:

• Kershaw injury
• Harper hurt
• Darvish dealt
• Giancarlo's HR bender
• Sluggers taking over the infield

2^nd Base (~27:30)

• Extract
• Doug: Aaron Nola
• Sam: Charlie Blackmon (~41:00)

3^rd Base (~53:30)

Game: Read Between the Lies

Doug visiting, Sammy home 

Home (~1:14:00) 

• RotoGrinders buys Fantasy Insiders
• Doug and Sammy just miss being coworkers
• What does it mean for FI?

Music by The Ghost Notes:

Intro – Hold On

Outro – Never Seems Right

Break Music by PBR Streetgang

Baseballholics Anonymous Ep 75:

Recording a Podcast in a Shed

w/ Special Guest Yancy Eaton

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1^st Base (~4:15)

• News

• Rays!

2^nd Base (~23:45)

• Extract
• Yancy: C-DICK
• Doug: McCullers
• Sam: Judge (revisited)
  • Judge 2016 
  • Judge 2017 

3^rd Base (~59:45)

Game: Pop Goes Your Baseball

 We rank our favorite baseball movies of all-time

Home (~1:29:00) 

• Juice-ball!
• Lindbergh article
• Arthur article

Music by The Ghost Notes:

Intro – Hold On

Outro – Never Seems Right

Break Music by PBR Streetgang

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1^st Base (~3:15)

• News

• Urias injury
• Bellinger takes the NL by storm
• Judge rules court over the AL
• HR Derby

2^nd Base (~23:30)

• Extract
• Doug: Luis Severino
  • Doug's 2015 article on Severino
• Sam: Justin Bour

3^rd Base (~50:00)

Game: Tie Breakout

Doug visiting, Sammy home 

Home (~1:02:30) 

• Baseball Prospectus gets Deadspun

Music by The Ghost Notes:

Intro – Hold On

Outro – Never Seems Right

Break Music by PBR Streetgang

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1^st Base (~2:45)

• News

• Pujols hits no. 600
• Volquez goes no-no
• Trout - Fish out of water
• Chagrin in Chicago, the tale of a .500 team

2^nd Base (~30:00)

• Extract
• Doug: Craig Kimbrel
• Sam: Dellin Betances

3^rd Base (~50:15)

Game: Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Sammy visiting, Doug home 

Home (~1:10:30) 

• Charging the mound

Music by The Ghost Notes:

Intro – Hold On

Outro – Never Seems Right

Break Music by PBR Streetgang

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• The Unthinkable Happened

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1^st Base (~2:15)

• News

• Rangers
• Astros
• Freeman
• Rooks: Bellinger, Happ, Berrios and Urias'

2^nd Base (~30:45)

• Extract
• Sam: Alex Wood
  • Wood in 2015
  • Wood in 2017
• Doug: Charlie Morton

3^rd Base (~51:15)

Game: The Wonder Years

Doug visiting, Sammy home 

Home (~1:01:45) 

• Doug's back at the National Pitching Association
• Why the NPA of 8 years ago was better than anything else that is out there now
• Why the NPA of now is light years ahead of where they were 8 years ago
• Looking Forward

Music by The Ghost Notes:

Intro – Hold On

Outro – Never Seems Right

Break Music by PBR Streetgang

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1^st Base (~2:15)

• News - Teams and Injuries

• Thor, Cespedes and the Mets
• Bumgarner and the Giants
• Hamels, Adrian and the Rangers
• The Nats Run Machine
• Kluber
• Haniger

2^nd Base (~19:30)

• Extract
• Sam: Eric Thames
• Doug: Aaron Judge (~29:00)

3^rd Base (~40:15)

Game: Read Between the Lies

Sammy visiting, Doug home 

Home (~53:30) 

• Streaks and Slumps, Bats and Arms, what's for real?
• Zimmerman, Sano
• Paxton, Keuchel
• Owings, J.Ramirez, Conforto, Bruce
• Cahill, Nova, Big Erv, Bundy
• CarGo, Odor, Polanco, Schwarber
• Arrieta, Hendricks, Gausman, Velasquez

Music by The Ghost Notes:

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Outro – Never Seems Right

Break Music by PBR Streetgang

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1^st Base (~4:15)

• News

• J. Gray
• Blisters
• JD
• Closer gigs

2^nd Base (~31:00)

• Extract
• Doug: Dylan Bundy
  • GIF: Bundy's filth
• Sammy: Rougned Odor

3^rd Base (~53:15)

Game: Who Done It?

Doug visiting, Sammy home 

Home (~1:11:00) 

• The Problems with Evaluating Pitch Command

Music by The Ghost Notes:

Intro – Hold On

Outro – Never Seems Right

Break Music by PBR Streetgang

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The Season Preview Episode

1^st Base (~6:15)

• Predicting the Playoffs

2^nd Base (~29:30)

• Predicting the Awards
  • RotY
  • CY
  • MVP

 3^rd Base (~1:06:30)

Game: Occam's Razor

Home (~1:22:15) 

• BAn Listener Auction review, Trials and Tribulations

Music by The Ghost Notes:

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Outro – Never Seems Right

Break Music by PBR Streetgang

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The All-Fantasy Episode

1^st Base (~10:30)

• Fantasy Draft Strategies, Approaches and Preparation

2^nd Base (~36:00)

• Individual Player Predictions:
  • Breakouts
  • Bargains
  • Busts

 3^rd Base (~1:27:15)

Game: Fantasy Over/Under

Home (~1:47:45) 

• Keeper and Dynasty Leagues

Music by The Ghost Notes:

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Outro – Never Seems Right

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1^st Base (~2:45)

• News

• David Price Injury

• The Price Rule

• The Capps Rule

• Simpler Stras

2^nd Base (~28:30)

• Division Previews: NL East

 3^rd Base (~55:30)

Game: Tie Breakout

Sammy visiting, Doug home 

Home (~1:09:00) 

• Division Previews: AL East

Music by The Ghost Notes:

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Outro – Never Seems Right

Break Music by PBR Streetgang

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1^st Base (~4:30)

• Division Previews: NL West

2^nd Base (~37:15)

• BARF League draft recap
• 12 team roto, OBP/HR/RBI/R/SB QS/ERA/WHIP/K/Sv
• 2 C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, CI, MI, 5 OF, UT, 9 P, 5 bench
• Here's the draft results

 3^rd Base (~1:04:30)

Game: Who Done It?

Doug visiting, Sammy home 

Home (~1:19:30) 

• Division Previews: AL West

Music by The Ghost Notes:

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Outro – Never Seems Right

Break Music by PBR Streetgang

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1^st Base (~6:15)

• Division Previews: NL Central

2^nd Base (~38:30)

• Extract
• Sam: Jonathan Villar
• Doug: Carlos Rodon  (47:00)

 3^rd Base (~56:15)

Game: Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Sammy visiting, Doug home 

Home (~1:12:15) 

• Division Previews: AL Central

Music by The Ghost Notes:

Intro – Hold On

Outro – Never Seems Right

Break Music by PBR Streetgang

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1^st Base (~3:30)

• News

• Yordano V, A.Marte
• Trumbo
• Bautista
• Mr. Anderson
• Forsythe for De Leon
• G. Holland

2^nd Base (~32:00)

• Extract
• Sam: Justin Turner
• Doug: James Paxton  (44:30)
  • 2015 delivery
  • 2016 delivery

 3^rd Base (~53:00)

Game: The Wonder Years

Doug visiting, Sammy home 

Home (~1:07:45) 

• Free Labor in Baseball

Music by The Ghost Notes:

Intro – Hold On

Outro – Never Seems Right

Break Music by PBR Streetgang

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• (This Ep was recorded on 1/15/17, but technical difficulties delayed posting until now. Yes, we're aware that Bautista and Trumbo are no longer free agents!)

1^st Base (~5:00)

• Busy Mariners

• A's go dumpster-diving
• Myers extension
• Cincy bullpen

2^nd Base (~21:15)

• Extract
• Sam: Jose Bautista
• Doug: Carlos Martinez

 3^rd Base (~41:45)

Game: Read Between the Lies

Home (~1:00:00) 

• Ask a Pitching Guy
• NPA background
• Pick an 80 tool
• Stopwatches

Music by The Ghost Notes:

Intro – Hold On

Outro – Never Seems Right

Break Music by PBR Streetgang

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1^st Base (~4:30)

• Warming by the hot stove, offseason trades

2^nd Base (~31:45)

• Warming by the hot stove, offseason signings

3^rd Base (~1:14:15)

Game: Round Robin

1. Whose Line Is It Anyway?

2. Read Between the Lies

3. Who Done It?

4. The Wonder Years

5. Tie Breakout

Home (~1:41:15) 

• The new Collective Bargaining Agreement

Music by The Ghost Notes:

Intro – Hold On

Outro – Never Seems Right

Break Music by PBR Streetgang