Baseball Elite Podcast: September 27, 2021

Baseball Elite Podcast, September 27, 2021

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

1. Ray is going for the LABR Title!

2. Rob Povia’s Weekly Planner Highlights – One, LAST double-header in this year of double-header’s (52 of them this season … fans jipped out of 208 innings or over 23 games)/Pitching schedules will be all over the place this week/TOR playing for all the marbles and all their players will be involved/There could be a Game 163 between ATL and COL/ATL faces all RHP’s so Eddie Rosario might be worth a roll/PIT, MIA, CLE, KC, and DET are all awful teams … but, they all have 7 games this week!

3. MLB News/Notes – W. Franco’s on-base streak is up to 41/Ohtani throws … gulp! … 112 pitches?!/Syndergaard (elbow) set to return this week/Belt (thumb) set for X-rays/Bellinger (ribs) thinks he’ll be back this week

4. Player Profile – Giancarlo Stanton

5. 2nd-Half Surge (hitting) – Riley/Goldschmidt/Votto/France/Cron/J. Polanco

6. 2nd-Half Surge (pitching) – M. Gonzales/Wainwright/Quantrill/S.Barlow/R. Iglesias

7. Waiver Wire Wins (SXM Host League) – Baz ($379), N. Gordon ($1), Lux ($3), L. Thomas ($3), K. Ruiz ($4), Pollock ($1), Dalbec ($1)

8. ‘Random Reference’ – Joe Oliver

9. ‘Stamp of Approval’ – The extended run Interstate 44 – Washington Missouri riverfront.