Five and Dive

In Episode 379, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about celebrity lookalikes and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 

1. I’m shocked! Shocked to find that gambling is going on in here: MLB hands down five suspensions for betting on baseball. Let’s discourse about the discourse.
2. Sorry We Missed You: The Good Place: Some great early season performances we’ve overlooked, and one we definitely haven’t.
3. Around the Horn: Wilyer sprains his ankle, two Astros pitchers go under the knife, and the Athletics are planning a vacation before their new house is even built
4. What to Watch: London Baseball and NL West basbeall
5. The games are like Outback now, no rules, just right. (Craig’s still wrong).

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In Episode 378, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about Patrick’s latest baseball cad haul and then discuss five mostly baseball topics.

1. Sunday Afternoon is Also Alright for Fighting: The Brewers don’t need much prodding to get into an on-field kerfluffle, but Tommy Pham is here to help anyway.
2. Tork Wrench: Former first overall pick Spencer Torkelson has been optioned to Triple-A. Is there a way back? Also the irony-posioned older millenial hosts badly explain a twitter meme.
3. Around the Horn: Mostly injuries, there’s so many injuries
4. What to Watch: An intercity sickos series and other, less sickos AL Central matchups. 
5. Calorie counts and patio cleaning feature in this episode’s game

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In Episode 377, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig discuss five mostly baseball topics. 

1. Because we are a Mets podcast: Well one of us already has a Mets podcast, but everyone has to suffer this week.
2. Life is too short to spend the rest of it down here in Tampa: The Rays are under .500, not hitting, and probably will just keep being the Rays.
3. Around the Horn: Thoughts on MLB’s absorption of Negor League statistics, the usual injury roundup, and an unusual issue with the new A’s stadium.
4. What to Watch: It’s mostly sickos stuff
5. Craig and Patrick test their knowledge of WAR

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In Episode 376, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about taking children to minor league games, clean up some housekeeping, and then discuss five mostly baseball topics.

1. Where Angels fear to tread: Angel Hernandez retires abruptly, and he’s a famous enough baseball figure to get his own segment.
2. Acuña Cortada: Ronald Acuña tears his other ACL and we are all worse off for it.
3. Around the Horn: Farewell to some outfielders, hello to a pitcher (and then good bye to that pitcher shortly after we recorded) and yet another uninspiring City Series jersey.
4. What to Watch: A lot of central division games yet again
5. WAR escalator, by request

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In Episode 375, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig discuss upcoming lunches and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 

1. You might catch me in Atlanta, looking like a boss: Atlanta isn’t bossing the NL East this year as their lineup has been pretty dang average.
2. And we’ll never be Royals: The Royals on the other hand…
3. Around the Horn: The Cardinals sweep the Orioles, Nabil finds a new home, and the Yanks and Jays have some upcoming roster decisions.
4. What to Watch: A pretty mediocre slate of games, but it’s all Mets, all Sickos this week.
5. Jeffrey lost track of episode numbers at some point so this game should have been played Monday.

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In Episode 374, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig catch up on Wings of Desire and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 

1. The Games are Inside the Computer?: This was supposed to be about the Roku Sunday baseball deal, is mostly about Garfield. 
2. I’m shocked, shocked  to finding gambling going on in here: David Fletcher is linked to the ongoing California illegal book investigation, is this just the tip of the iceberg for MLB? 
3. Around the Horn: Future All-Stars, current A’s trade rumors, and we learn about city flags. 
4. What to Watch: The Mariners again. The Astros for perhaps the first time.
5. Remembering some free agent contracts

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In Episode 373, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about middle-aged dreams, thank you notes from small children, and then discuss five mostly baseball topics.

1. Always an Angel, Never a God: Not a good week in Anaheim 
2. Sorry We Missed You: Arizona Diamondbacks: We check in on the defending NL champs who are off to a scuffling start. 
3. Around the Horn: The Rockies are hot, Nabil Crismatt is in limbo, and there’s too many fake Ronel Blanco accounts.
4. What to Watch: Jeffrey doesn’t know what day Christian Scott picks, but you should watch it anyway, Craig has a homer pick, and Patrick goes for an AL Central shodown.
5. The 700 Club, by request

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In Episode 372, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig discuss five mostly baseball topics. 

1. Not the Quarter Pole: Who’s in first, who’s gonna be in first, and Ryan O’Hearn is the best hitter in baseball, just like we all thought.
2. Not in the Cards: The Cardinals are not in first, not likely to make the playoffs, so what comes next?
3. Around the Horn: Debuts for Paul Skenes, a bat speed metric, and more City Connects
4. What to Watch: Patrick watches some Prestige TV, while Jeffrey watches Mets/Phillies
5. A double fake out on the game
 
Five and Dive is listener-supported, you can join our Patreon at patreon.com/fiveanddive. If you want to get in contact with the show, the e-mail address is fiveanddive@baseballprospectus.com.

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In Episode 371, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about recent battign practice playlists and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 

1. The Gang Has the Best Record in Baseball: Okay, it’s time to talk about the Phillies
2. The Kids Aren’t All Right: Fanatics and Perfect Game team up to sell you some high schoolers autographs.
3. Around the Horn: Paul Skenes debuts, Wilson Conteras hits the shelf, and the Mr. and Mrs. Met have the same twitter account now
4. What to Watch: Not a great week for the non-sickos
5. Better know a co-host, but as a game.

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In Episode 370, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about their weekend and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 

1. Sink, Florida, Sink: Miami ships their best hitter off to San Diego, a couple months earlier and for a lesser return than you might expect. 
2. The masculine urge to say “we’re back” 20 minutes after saying “it’s over”: What’s up with a some .500ish teams, and also what’s up with the White Sox (you know what’s up).
3. Around the Horn: Prospect promotions, more City Connects, more pitcher injuries
4. What to Watch: The Best of the NL, the rest of the NL, and a Twins series without a Pablo Lopez start. 
5. Everyone’s mad at the game again.

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In Episode 369, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about what is annoying Craig this week and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 

1. Always an Angel, Never a God: Mike Trout tore his meniscus which means it’s time to reflect on what baseball greatness is once again.
2. It says bee and there’s a picture of a bee on it: The content market never sleeps, even if Craig goes to sleep before the game starts.
3. Around the Horn: A donnybrook between the Rays and Brewers, and pitchers coming back from injury for a change, 
4. What to Watch: A matchup of young stars in Cinci, a matchup of the two best NL teams, and some disagreement over the most sickos matchup of the weekend
5. More nicknames to guess in this episode’s game

Five and Dive is listener-supported, you can join our Patreon at patreon.com/fiveanddive. If you want to get in contact with the show, the e-mail address is fiveanddive@baseballprospectus.com.

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In Episode 368, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig discuss five mostly baseball topics. 

1. Central Planning: The White Sox (?!) and Twins are hot, and the AL Central might be the most interesting division in baseball
2. I wsn’t talking about the hot dog: MLB and restaurant delivery apps, they go together like relish and honey mustard.
3. Around the Horn: Uniform chat, pitcher inury chat. 
4. What to Watch: An AL East showdown, a match up that should never happen, and the Tigers are back where they belong (Wednesday afternoon)
5. Nobody looks at leaderboards apparently.

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In Episode 367, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about DVD players and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 

1. Can’t you Snell that Snell: Blake Snell is hurt and no learning will occur.
2. The masculine urge to say “we’re back” 20 minutes after saying “it’s over”: Checking in on some early-season lines for both good and ill.
3. Around the Horn: All you Chase Anderson and injury news
4. What to Watch: The Rockies and Padres at even higher elevation
5. A game that goes more or less fine. 

Five and Dive is listener-supported, you can join our Patreon at patreon.com/fiveanddive. If you want to get in contact with the show, the e-mail address is fiveanddive@baseballprospectus.com.

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In Episode 366, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about Bluey (again) and then discuss five mostly baseball topics.
 
1. Here we are now going to the South Side: Things have gotten quite bad for the pale hose, and we recorded this segment before they were shut out again.
2. Fraud Watch: Some teams that miught be playing some fradulent baseball in the early goings.
3. Around the Horn: Your weekly check-in on Rockies weirdness, and the usual injury round up.
4. What to Watch: A weird week made even weirder by Tigers…night games?
5. We try the WAR game again with marginally better results.

Five and Dive is listener-supported, you can join our Patreon at patreon.com/fiveanddive. If you want to get in contact with the show, the e-mail address is fiveanddive@baseballprospectus.com.

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In Episode 365, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about Bluey and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 

1. Ascent into Madness: A podcasts segment that will also be a column but also needed to be a podcast segment and doesn’t even include the FAA investigation.
2. What’s got into that cat?: Have the Mets stolen the Pirates friskiness, and who else is looking frisky.
3. Around the Horn: The Cardinals want some money please, plus more pitcher injuries and one pitcher returnign from injury
4. What to Watch: Royals/Orioles again, and some Western division teams looking to turn it around
5. Well, it’s a shorter game this time at least.

Five and Dive is listener-supported, you can join our Patreon at patreon.com/fiveanddive. If you want to get in contact with the show, the e-mail address is fiveanddive@baseballprospectus.com.

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