Baseball Elite Podcast: August 16, 2021

Here’s ‘The Starting 9’ for today’s show … 

1. Stunning Sunday’s – Tatis returns – in the OF – with 2 HRs (4-for-5, 3 R, 4 RBI)/T. McKenzie comes 4 outs short of a perfecto/S. Perez hits #30/M. Givens strengthens grip on CIN 9th

2. Hunting for pitching … ANY pitching … down the stretch – Tyler Gilbert, Mikolas, H. Ynoa, L. Gil, R. Lopez, N. Cortes, E. Hernandez

3. Waiver Wire Wins (SXM Host League) – T. Wade ($35), L. Brinson ($40), C. Quantrill ($59), H. Ynoa ($3), R. Lopez ($3), M. Gonzalez ($6)

4. The Greatest ‘Lost Season’ of Them All? – Adalberto Mondesi

5. Player Profile – Christian Yelich

6. Rob Povia’s Weekly Planner Highlights – NYM faces Gausman, L. Webb, DeSclafani, Buehler, Scherzer, Price, and … Mitch White!/COL home all week meaning all COL hitters are back in our good graces/Hitter streamer possibilities for MIA (Alfaro, M. Rojas, I. Diaz) and ARZ (Ahmed, C. Walker, J. Rojas)

7. MLB News/Notes – 2 straight saves for TEX RP Joe Barlow/Darvish (back) lands on IL/G. Cole (COVID) returns tonight/J. Ross (UCL) done for the season

8. ‘Random Reference’ – Gary Matthews.

9. ‘Stamp of Approval’ – A good book and Farmers’ Markets.