Shohei Ohtani (大谷翔平)'s MVP chances, Astros vs Yankees rivalry, Paul Skenes & more 

Do the New York Yankees own the Houston Astros?

Ohtani can be the first injured pitcher to win MVP

Shohei is the most athletic and skilled player in baseball history. Shalom

三冠王と盗塁王でDH初のMVP受賞 大谷がまた歴史を塗り替えるのかワクワクだね

Alex, it was me that paid for your Netflix. Quan from Texas :) Go Shohei!

Shohei has 2.5 WARs in 39 games, so he is on pace for 10.0+ WAR. If he gets there, he has a pretty good shot at MVP…but only if Mookie cools off..

50-40 will be difficult ... hope he does break his own 46 HR record. No need to chase that 40 SB. I rather see him hitting doubles, which seems not that difficult for him. I think if he hits more than 46 HR and leads NL in HR (with OPS above last years number), he will win MVP ...

yall funny af with the astro conversations😂

Ben and Alex, I like your enthusiasm but I'm a pessimist/realist. As much as I would love to see Shohei continue to put up these numbers throughout the season, I just don't think it's going to happen. The numbers he's putting up right now are just freaking crazy and to continue doing it for the entire season would be insane. As special as Shohei is, I just don't think it's going to happen. I would love to be proven wrong. Great episode!

I remember Teoscar Hernandez as a young Fresno Grizzlies OF. He seemed like a genuinely good kid, playing a game he loved in a foreign country. Besides working hard to get to "The Show", he was, also, taking a class to learn the language. He did the interview with the local news station without an interpreter. I'm a lifelong Giants fan, but, will, always, wish for the best for Teoscar, regardless of the uniform he wears.

Ben was gonna cry when you mentioned the trashstros 🤣🤣

At this point it wouldn't be surprising to say the only thing he wants is the ring. The rest doubt he cares

Maybe after he rests his back, he can win the MVP.

Spicy!! Hope you all enjoyed this episode!

If shohei doesn't get bonus points to his mvp eligibility for playing as an elite pitcher, then he shouldn't be penalized for playing strictly as a DH due to injury.

“If Shohei won the triple crown it would help his case for MVP.” Captain Obvious

The name of this show should be changed to "Flippin bats for Ohtani"

10 years paying someone else's netflix is a little creepy. Especially if they were tracking what you were watching. Excited to see how Skenes does in his first big league start. That Contreras injury is nasty and I definitely don't want to see it again. I watch a lot of MMA and I've seen people break their own legs while kicking and I always hate seeing those too. Dylan Cease is absolutely killing it for my home team. Can't get enough of him. Pads won a series vs the Dodgers earlier in the year, hope we can try and do that again but its definitely daunting. I think it's really amusing that the LA and SD teams always have fun, ultra competitive and/or entertaining games with each other while the fans fight each other and call each other names on twitter.

I hate those betting jokes under every ohtani post on social media, how they choose to ignore the facts and insist on believing what they want to believe. Even when the truth came out, they never admit they were wrong and go even further to attack the truth instead...

The batter was standing so far back though. If you see his stance, his back foot is outside the batting box. It was a combination of both. I think this should be an incentive for the mlb to make it clear where the batters and catchers should stand.

I do, however, like what Ben said about the Astros still owning the Yankees in the postseason. That's what I'd still like to see. All we still have to find out is whether or not these Astros still have it in themselves to get it done.

anyone who actually believes ippei was the fall guy in this case has no context on the matter...the dude blatantly lied on his CV from past education & work history

And mookie playing well also helps shohei's stats (more rbi, less walks) insane situation 😂

The fact that Ben isn’t really worried about the Astros right now is shocking to me. The Astros are currently 13-24 on May 10th, last year the Astros 24th loss came on June 4th and that team finished 90-72. So the fact that you can say your not worried about the Astros right now because of previous seasons, when last season was the worst record they’ve had since 2016 and they are a MONTH BEHIND that pace should worry you

Ben d riding the Astros hard as always

Ben, I just hope that my Astros GET to October.

Doesn’t matter what happens in the regular season all the matters is what happens in the post season. Let me know how the Asterix do in the post season this year 😂

I agree until the playoffs… astros own us cheating or no cheating they keep sending us home!! I want them in the playoffs this year!! We have Soto now

The Astros are 8 games back in DEAD LAST PLACE and only the White Sox have lost more games in the AL. They are so done it’s ridiculous. How can you at this point STILL think they have a prayer!

Doesn't the very fact that a pitcher is recording a negative FIP indicate that such analytical scales are just invalid? Besides, you can never take out the contributive influences a catcher has on a pitcher, so FIP is crippled anyway in the first place, isn't it? If general managers and scouts are using it as a reference, it can be helpful. I guess, but from a baseball fan perspective, it's plain absurd. We as humans see, watch and enjoy things through their totality not the analytical bits of them. The other thing is that relief pitchers, by definition, are the most dependent on other players and pitchers to win a game, existence-wise. So, saying that the stat means he can win a game even if his team didn't score a single run when talking about a closer is not just impossible or impractical, but even metaphorically, downright ridiculous. I personally have always thought that even ERAs should be applied to starting pitchers only (and to some extent middle relievers), and even if it were so, they should always be referred to in relevance and compensation with winning percentage. As for relief pitchers, the number of holds or saves are better indicators of their performance. Analytics are basically for the front management, and some analytical stats can serve the managers and coaches well, but for the fans, what we can see and practically understand is what we appreciate. People say traditional metrics are inaccurate and out of fashion, but I see no new metrics that actually has no such inaccuracies. Of course, this doesn't diminish the fact that Miller is pitching fantastically.

She’s kidding right? A team doesn’t own a team because of the regular season success and even to argue right now you can’t say that because HOU has two more rings than the Yankees in the last 10 years and I hate the astros

If Cardinals and Contreras were basically trying to deceive the umpires and make them call low balls strikes, and if that’s what led to this injury, would this be another reason for bringing robot umpire to major league?

Alex hates The Astros so much, its WILD!!!!!! If The Padres or Diamindbacks beat the Dodgers in 9 straight, do they now own The Dodgers?

I think the DH penalty is too harsh to overcome for MVP and Ohtani would need to hit 60 homers and win the triple crown to pass Mookie if Mookie also keeps up his pace since he's playing shortstop.

I love this show. I’ve watched it for years. But….. Ben, you’re right. I’m so sorry, you CANNOT be serious. What in the hell were you even trying to say Alex? Have you not watched a single game of baseball in the last 10 years??? By all means, hit me back. I cannot believe what I just heard :/

Ben “the postseason is the only thing that matters”. Shohei has never been to the postseason…

Victor Martinez 2014 was 2nd on al mvp voting

James Franco

ben being so disrespectful to alex about the astros is a crazy look. dude the astros are ass right now, if you’re holding out hope for the astros then that’s crazy copium

The idea that only a few games in a certain month count more than 162 games is wild. You need to do well in the 162 games to even get to October. All the while everyone claiming 'the 2020 season title doesn't count because it wasn't AS MANY GAMES AS NORMAL' Which is it folks? A large pool of games counts for nothing or it does count for something? The Yankees own the trashtros 40-18pts. The Astros winning in October is a statistical fluke NOT an actual statistic.

日本語の翻訳ほしい

Known dodger lover tries to get rise out of Astros lover. New title 😂 she’s speaking from up top her pedestal, let’s table this til the playoffs

He is not gonna get 30 years and yeah people have taken a life sentence as a fall guy before you are wrong the speed of it amps up the suspicion

Miller will be an Oriole soon.

Ben has such rose tinted glasses on for the Astros. He's looking at them like they're the same team that won the WS in '22 or made the ALCS 7 straight years. They are not though, they are 8 years older than what he thinks they are, their way of thinking of how to build a team has gone backwards mainly due to interference from their owner, their bullpen is terrible, the offense is above average but not elite, and the starting pitching is okay but banged up. The fact he's just hand waving away everything Alex has said to him about the Astros is obnoxious and frankly the fact he said he didnt hear anything she had said is just rude and annoying. Anyone with eyes should be able to see that the Astros are a bad team right now and that yes, the Yankees own them, at least in the regular season. His argument or belief that only the playoffs matter when it comes to owning a team is just weird. It does matter if a team makes the playoffs but for Ben to dismiss history which has shown only one team ever make the playoffs after the start the Astros have had shouldn't be dismissed. Yes, if the Astros somehow make the playoffs as like the 2nd wild card team, they might get the benefit of the doubt, but they wouldn't deserve it.

God i hope they get swept by the Padres ( wont happen). But it would be awesome.

Alex low key committed credit card fraud for a decade lol...

Ben you need to look closer at history regarding the Astros. Not because your brother plays there. Historically the Astros don’t win and you act like they’re baseball royalty because they won a their First Championship and even that they had to tank for over a decade and even worse, cheat, to get it. You throw the Astros name into the “Elite team” hat with the likes of Dodgers, Yankees, Braves etc when they and other teams are and thats almost cute that you think that. Remember you can’t polish a turd.

A TV Show will be disgusting, they will onclude some invented things just to show a tricky situation that can affect Shohei image. Be prepared for big lawsuits!!! L. A. and its life style sucks!!!

Her blatant prejudices against the Astros makes her sound like a joke and doesn’t know what she’s talking about. We are taking about over the last 7 years. This is funny. Sometimes on the some of the things she says , not just here , makes her sound like a person who doesn’t understand baseball.

Alex is so disingenuous lmao

Sorry, but that Brady roast was a waste of 3 hours. Was not funny and boring

What no one is talking about is that a very sick man just threw his life away. Gambling is a sickness, as much as alcoholism is. Shalom

This woman is the most annoying human being I’ve ever heard…