In Episode 454, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about another respiratory illness for Craig and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. Because We Are a Mets Podcast: And the Mets have the best record in bassball 2. The masculine urge to say “we’re back” 20 minutes after saying "it's over": Corbin Carroll. the Cubs, and consideration of the O…

Smith and Nathan are back to check in who is off to a hot start in the early days of the minor league season, and who is scuffling out of ther gate. Plus Grant Schiller drops by with some thoughts on Sebastian Walcott's 2025 campaign.By Bret Sayre

In Episode 453, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about Portland's Waterworld AI Stadium and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. Sunday Funday: A whip around a busy day on the baseball sched. 2. Just Peachy: The Braves are tweeting through their rough start. 3. Around the Horn: The Rockies continue to Rocky. Plus a bunch of major-league deb…

In Episode 521 of For All You Kids Out There, Jeffrey and Jarrett are not worried about Juan Soto, have in-depth information on how to get to Citi Field this year, and spend forty minutes on vague pitching dev stuff that may or may not answer the first email we got.By Bret Sayre

In Episode 452, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about the new Subaru Outback and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. Sir, this is a website: We look over what's been on BP for the past week, including MLB celebartting Jackie Robinson for [redacted], what's going on with the Pirates and Angels, and Mike Elias's thoughts on building a rotat…

In Episode 520 of For All You Kids Out There, Jeffrey and Jarrett record live during the Monday nightTwins game, but don't even get through half of it, because there just isn't much to talk about with the Mets (complimentary).By Bret Sayre

In Episode 451, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about Patrick's vacation and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. The Guys Have It: How are our guys doing? Pretty well honestly. 2. I've always liked it slow, I've never liked it fast: We check in on some slow-starting stars to see what the issues might be. 3. Around the Horn: An important C…

In Episode 450, Jeffrey, and Craig have a lot of banter and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. What's got into that cat?: It's our first frisky watch of 2025, checking in on the Tigers, Nats and Angels (?!) 2. What me worry: Conversely some teams that haven't been so frisky so far. 3. Around the Horn: A tragedy in the Domincan Republic, s…

In Episode 449, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about the Craig's endless cough and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. The Good: The Giants, the Mets bullpen, and Wilyer Abreu are off to very strong starts. 2. The Vlad: Vladimir Guerrero, jr signs a mega-extension with the Jays. Patrick isn't here, but ther est of us are ambivalent. 3. The Ugly: …

In Episode 519 of For All You Kids Out There, Jeffrey and Jarrett, don't have a ton to say about the 2025 Mets yet, because...well, look at the title. Max Kranick sure looks good though, and we do have some correspondence to get through.By Bret Sayre

In Episode 448, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig have more banter than usual and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. National Jump to Conclusions Week: We consider making some hot takes about the NL West, the AL Central, and Jake Mangum. 2. 100 Million Reasons to Stay: We have a lot of extensions to discuss. Patrick does a crossword or somethin…

I feel like I just had a quarter-life crisis. I can't be having a midlife crisis already. At least Scandanavian synthesizers are cheaper than Alfa Romeos, although not by as much as you might think. Soundtrack "deep sea leaks" by Google Earth, James Riotto, and John Vanderslice, Street View (2024) "White Plains" bu John Vanderslice, Cellar Door (20…

In Episode 447, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. Three for three: Nine takeways from three podcast hosts about the first threeish games of baseball. 2. Weights and Measures: The extra thick bats can't hurt you, they aren't real. Well unless you are the Brewers pitching staff. 3. Around the Horn: Eating tape on the…

In Episode 518 of For All You Kids Out There, Jeffrey and Jarrett realize there is Mets baseball to talk about and we do, covering Clay Holmes pitch mix and Mendy's mid-game management. But Jeffrey makes the mistake of bringing up Kristian Campbell, so we once again fail to get through all your correspondence.…

In Episode 446, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about dental routines and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. Last-Minute Shopping: Most of the moves both major and minor we missed over the last few weeks. 2. Everyboduy hurts, spring time: And of course there's a lot of injuries to cover 3. Roster Resourceful: Some Opening Day debuts, and…

In Episode 445, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about the Tokyo Series and then preview the American League West. 1. None of us know what to do about the 2025 Texas Rangers. 2. PECOTA knows exactly what to do with the 2025 Seattle Mariners. 3. The Houston Astros are worse and more interesting 4. The Los Angeles Angels are exactly as good and exact…

In Episode 517 of For All You Kids Out There," Jeffrey and Jarrett chat with David Roth about Bosch: Legacy, streaming TV schedules, and eventually the Mets bullpen.By Bret Sayre

Instead of a granular, detailed look at the starting pitching tiers, we take a 50,000-foot view of the landscape, identifying three large "chunks" of the draft: the early rounds (1-6), the middle rounds (7-18), and the late rounds (19-end). We tackle some strategic questions, based on the latest ADP data from NFBC Main Event drafts (though what we …

In Episode 444, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about the free coffee, local gas stations, and free baseball(s), and then preview the American League Central. 1. The Twins are projected to win the division. People don't love this, but imagine having an opinion onthe Twins. 2. The Royals are going to need another great Bobby Witt season. 3. The Gua…

In Episode 516 of For All You Kids Out There, Jeffrey and Jarrett are joined by Thomas Henderson to preview the Mets starting pitching. As you can probably tell by the run time, there's other stuff too.By Bret Sayre

In Episode 443, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig preview the American League East 1. Yeah, the Orioles are projected for first place now. They probably should still be better than this 2. The Toronto Blue Jays should see a bounce back, per PECOTA, less so per us. 3. Okay this Yankees preview is gonna take a while now. 4. The Rays might have a new owner …

In Episode 442, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about free coffee and then preview the National League East. 1. Atlanta suddenly has a lot of roster questions, but might be the best team in the division 2. The Mets suddenly have a lot of injuries, but may be the best team in the division 3. The Phillies are suddenly a bit old, but may be the best …

In Episode 515 of For All You Kids Out There, Jeffrey and Jarrett are joined by Grace Carbone to review every third catcher in baseball as a possible Mets fit, and then chat about the rest of the (mostly healthy) 2025 Mets infield.By Bret Sayre

In Episode 441, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig preview the teams in the National League Central. 1. The Cubs are the fancy dog Blue Jays? 2. The Brewers can't keep getting away with this, but will probably get away with this in 2025. 3. The Cardinals are fine. 4. The Pirates will be frisky, but probably not good. 5. The Reds have been out in the sun f…

In Episode 514 of For All You Kids Out There, Jeffrey and Jarrett are theoretically previewing the 2025 Mets Outfield with Allison McCague, but well, you know how these go sometimes.By Bret Sayre

This podcast is shifting to a new podcast feed! This short message is going out to the old feed only. The podcast will now be hosted on my Substack, ejfagan.substack.com (RSS feed link below). If you see this message, you are still subscribed to the old feed. You will need to either search for the Bronx Beat podcast in your player (Overcast, Pocket…

Mike and Jon talk about two recent drafts they were in: Mike in the LABR Mixed Draft, and Jon in the WERF draft (one of the leagues in the overal EARTH competition). We make some observations about starters, relievers, and drafting speed. Then we get to the second half of our outfield preview, containing a lot of flawed but interesting bats. Flags …

In Episode 440, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig kick off their 2025 divisional previews. 1. We aren't tired of the Dodgers yet, but you probably don't need to tune in before October. 2. The Diamondbacks and Padres are very close by PECOTA, but Arizona feels much lower variance. 3. We have no idea what the 2025 San Diego Padres will be. 4. The Giants ar…

"Kafuku settled back in the leather seat, closed his eyes, and tried to focus hismind on the sound of the engine when Misaki shifted gears. But he couldn’t catch the precise moment. It was all too smooth, too mysterious. He could only make out a slight gradation in the engine’s hum. It was like the wings of a flying insect, now drawing closer, now …

In Episode 513 of For All You Kids Out There, Jeffrey and Jarrett talk about Ace Holmes, Frankie Montas's injury (but not Madrigal or Manaea's), the BP Top 101 (but mostly the Top 10) and answer your correspondence.By Bret Sayre

EJ and Tim discuss the first three Spring Training games, the end of The No Beard Policy and Aaron Boone's three year contract extension.By Bret Sayre

In Episode 439, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about the Tigers coffee temperature debate and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. Tinker, Devers Askance: Rafael Devers is a third baseman, just ask him. Also, if anyone has a hot tip on what was served at Alex Cora's team dinner, inquiring minds want to know. 2. Temporarily Embarassed Bill…

EJ, John and Pat discuss Giancarlo Stanton's injury and the state of the Yankee farm system.By Bret Sayre

In Episode 512 of For All You Kids Out There, Jeffrey and Jarrett clean out a very crowded inbox as another Mets baseball season peaks up among the crocuses.By Bret Sayre

In Episode 438, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about why they are doing a second show this week, and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. Alex and Everything After: Mostly it's because Alex Bregman finally signed somewhere. Where he is goign to play there? A more open-ended question. 2. Los Angeles, I'm Yours: Clayton Kershaw returns home…

We get through the top 2.5 tiers of Mike's outfield rankings, spending a bit of time on the Ronald Acuña Dilemma. Elsewhere, we weigh in on the robust group of promising young outfielders in the five- and four-star tiers (Chourio! Duran! Merrill! Langford! Wood! Butler!), are back in again on Corbin Carroll, hopeful for a J-Rod bounceback, and rema…

In Episode 437, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about The Big Game and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. Pete's Dragged On: Pete Alonso is a Met again. That sure took a while. 2. There is no such thing as a free agency: A lot of bench outfielders are signing now 3. A Stadium Rendering is worth 1,000 Words: As first reported by Five and …

EJ and Pat discuss the Tim Hill signing, the backup catcher spot and Brian Cashman's recent comments about Gleyber Torres.By Bret Sayre

In Episode 511 of For All You Kids Out There, Jarrett gets the Italian wifi working because he won't take a vacation from Pete Alonso chat either.By Bret Sayre