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Welcome back to Newswire here on Sports Grid. Jack McMullen has, uh, got a busy offseason ahead, just kind of covering baseball for just baseball. He does play by play for the Miami Marlins. He's got a couple of months here to get all rested up and get ready for spring training back, uh, coming up in February and March. it's great to see you. Welcome back here to Newswire, and, uh, look, I, I think the baseball, uh, offseason does take a little bit of a dip in interest at some point, but this week is not the week because we had a lot of news. So let's dive in and let's get right to it here. A stunner for the Colorado Rockies. They've dipped into the old Moneyball days with Paul De Podesta as their new president of baseball of operations who did such a fantastic job. 15 years ago before he ended up going to the Cleveland Browns, and now he's back in the mix again. I can't even begin to wonder how this all happened, but I guess we should have known that something out of nowhere was coming cause when I heard Adam Otavino, May end up being the GM or president. I was like, whoa, OK, so the Rockies are going not outside the box, but outside the globe to find their next GM. That's not to say that he can't do a good job here, but I'm just like, what, what direction are they headed in here, uh, Jack, with uh Dee Podesta becoming the president? I'm not sure. Uh, if you don't know the name Paul De Podesta, might I introduce you to Peter Brand? Might I also introduce you to Jonah Hill, who played Peter Brand in Moneyball? Peter Brand, the Jonah Hill character in the movie Moneyball was based on Paul De Podesta. He was the guy that Billy Beane brought into the Oakland A's to kind of vitalize this Moneyball approach to Building a Major League Baseball team. So a lot of Bill James, a lot of sabermetrics here. This is the cutting edge person from 2002, that is now running the Colorado Rockies in 2025. It's a fascinating development for me, like you mentioned, he was with the Cleveland Browns. He was their, their chief strategy officer for the Cleveland Browns. Um, so I, fascinating hire, uh, it's. It's interesting. I know a lot of people around the league have always felt like the Colorado Rockies have been a decade or two decades, kind of behind the eight ball when it comes to baseball and organizational development. So perfect that they hire the Moneyball guy. And that's about the 2002 to 2003, uh, Oakland Athletics. So, I, I, I don't know. I, I wish I could say that it was, you know, a nice change of pace for the Rockies, but it did feel sort of kind of on brand. We'll see, uh, We'll, we'll see if he still has his baseball chops here, but this is an incredibly respected person in sports, an incredibly respected person in the game of baseball as well, but really interesting and, uh, I, I guess, uncomfortable higher that, you know, you, you gotta push to, to make that team a contender in Denver. Yeah, I, I think he said he's gonna hire a GM, so I think maybe that will give us more of an indication as to kind of where they're headed, but where they've been is at the bottom. Uh, 5 last place finishes recently, their ERA, they've never been able to solve this altitude thing, no matter how they, they slice it, they haven't been able to, and maybe that's what he's being brought in to do because back when he was running the A's, the D Podesta, he had Tim Hudson and Barry Zito. And uh fantastic pitching staff that really doesn't get talked about enough during that time. I think that was overlooked as well. OK, so if that's not a surprise for you, let me give you another one. New manager of the San Diego Padres Craig Stammon, relief pitcher, not that long ago, is now the new manager of uh of the Padres here. Wow, like I, I thought the pools thing would have been strange. This is even stranger, not a lot of experiences from what I'm understanding here, uh, Jack, but I will give the guy credit. He was a really good relief pitcher, uh, for a long time. Before we get to that, I want to show you this clip on how, uh, AJ Preller got him to take the gig. Yeah, the process was, uh, was AJ was very coy about it in the beginning, and I think he's been very understanding of my family situation, how important they are in this process, and even that was a big part of being a special assistant the last couple of years, uh, is him understanding that situation and so he was always like probing a little bit like, would you like to do more? Would you like to be a part of the front office a little bit more? Would you like to be. You know, have a little bit more, would you be like to be a part of the coaching staff? And so I always knew, and he's articulated that to me, you know, several times of, of what he thinks of me and how he thought I could be successful in some of the leadership roles within the team, um, so he was very coy about the beginning and then we kind of got through the interview process a little at the beginning of it and then he put the, the sales kibosh on me and said, you know, I really want you to be a part of this process. I want you to think about being the manager of the Padres. I really like this guy, but I'm gonna say this. You got a college baseball coach managing. You got a guy who was a special assistant. Jack, I'm thinking a host on Sports Grid is the next manager. So me or you, we got a shot. I mean, the more this happens, I think we got a shot at getting some big gig here. I mean, how do you figure this one out? I mean, I'm a left field, another one that's just way off the grid. I had no idea that this was coming. Now, let me ask you, do you feel like you could manage a bullpen particularly well? You get into July, August, do you feel like your bullpen management is OK? I, I mean, I've, look, I'm very good at hitting the ice cream thing, pulling it down. It goes in. I mean, what, what other experience do I need? No doubt. I think you're good. Uh, yeah, not to mention a 33 year old in Blake Buttero was just hired as the manager of the Washington Nationals as well. So you've got a 33-year old, you've got Craig Steman, who's a reliever and a front office member, uh, an assistant to the general manager. And you also have, uh, yeah, Tony Vitalo in San Francisco, the college coach who doesn't have a lick of professional baseball experience stepping into a managerial role. I, I think what you're seeing now, as we start to transition in this era of manager is you want to communicate with people, and you want to communicator with professional athletes. Is it a matter of Xs and O's and strategies? I don't know. We'll see how well the Cubs do over this eight-year deal for Craig, uh, for Craig Council, but like, That is the strategist, the X's and O's guy when it comes to baseball managers. Now, I think they want Tony Viello, who is a recruiter, who is a program builder, a guy that can build a culture in San Francisco. Blake Butera, 33 years old, he's gonna be managing guys in Washington that are older than him. Staman is gonna be managing guys that he played with over the course of his playing career. So, I feel like you're going a different way and you're almost going to a vibe curator in that role. And you want somebody to control the vibe in that clubhouse and make sure it's a positive environment. And guys are getting along. Guys are, you know, having fun. They're building towards this greater good as one unit. So, I don't know. I, I thought it was an interesting thing. It also, you know, seems pretty interesting to me, the, the timeline of events that AJ Preller was kind of pursuing Craig Stammon, because he was interviewing candidates and then all of a sudden it turned into, well, maybe I should just interview for this job as well. And AJ Preller was pushing him to do that. I am fascinated though. Albert Poolhols was a candidate for what, 3 different openings. It was Anaheim for a minute, and it was Baltimore, and then it was San Diego. He didn't get any of them. I, I just wonder if like he is that future manager in waiting that everybody wants to call him. Um, it seems like he would have had an opportunity and that he would have jumped to St. Louis when that eventually does open up. Now it seems a little bit more Yardi Molina than Albert Puhols to me. Yeah, I would, I would agree there. By the way, the Padres have a ton of free agents of which I don't think any comeback, C, King, Suarez, O'Hern, Arias, I think that this is a clean sweep. They're gonna be looking in a new direction. Padres have spent so much money over the last few years. It feels like there's a pullback, uh, coming from them. OK, Rookie of the year, this was an easy one in the American League. I mean, Nick Kurtz did not have a great start, but he was as good, uh, power-wise as any hitter in the big leagues from about May on 36 home runs, 86 runs driven in 290 helped maybe with, uh, Sacramento a little bit, but, uh, congrats to him and very well deserved, Jack. I, I thought that he was as impactful as any hitter down the stretch, ended up hitting 4 home runs, I believe in one game too. So, uh, A's future probably brighter when it's in Las Vegas, but for now they get some hardware here. End of draft pick, yeah, they do get a draft pick. That was the prospect promotion incentive, the PPI pick that they get from Nick Kurtz. They also get it, uh, as it pertains to Jacob Wilson, who is up the shortstop. They're the first guys to finish 1 and 2 teammates to finish 1 and 2 in rookie of the year voting since Spencer Strider and Michael Harris did it a few years ago in Atlanta. Nick Kurtz's prodigious power. When you start looking at the best first baseman in Major League Baseball going into the 2026 season, It's Vladimir Guerrero, it's Freddie Freeman, it's Pete Alonso, and you probably get to Nick Kurtz right after that. What that guy did in just over 100 Major League Baseball games is solidify himself as a top 5 1st baseman in the sport, 26. Yeah, and, uh, the National League, we'll get to in a minute, a very rare catcher winning Rookie of the Year in Major League Baseball. So let's take a quick break and we'll keep Jack around. We'll talk about the Atlanta Braves Rookie of the Year and also preview the American League and National League Managers of the Year, which will be announced tonight. You're watching Newswire here on Sports Grid. We're back with more with Jack McB. Solid from Just Baseball after this. Welcome back to Newswire here on Sports Grid. Jack McMullen coming up Just Baseball 15 minutes away exclusively here on our network on Sports Grid. We have the National League Rookie of the Year Jack awarded yesterday, very rare in two forms, I would think. First form, catcher, generally don't see that a lot winning Rookie of the Year. Drake Baldwin ends up taking it, uh, for Atlanta Braves team that. Had a pretty dismal year. All things considered, they get the rookie of the year, uh, here. So that's like the other rare part of this, uh, and, and I, and I think when you really look at it, the other rare part for me, Jack is, you know, looking at the odds from the beginning of the season to the end. Like he was kind of a wire to wire rookie of the year in it winner. Like Kurtz kind of came out of nowhere. you just don't know Rookie of the year in April, but he started off strong, missed some time a little bit, came back. Uh, was essentially, you know, the rookie that I, I think showed the most consistency over the course of the season. I mean, the guy that we covered, of course, uh, Gus Ramirez, like at one point he was up there and Horton, I thought would end up getting it, but you know, really, uh, credit to the Braves for keeping him in there, hanging him in there, and, and they get that draft pick as well for him winning. Yeah, and the only guy that really made a push at the end was Kate Horton, to your point, who was one of the best pitchers in baseball after the All-Star break. The Chicago Cubs right-hander finished 2nd. It, it, that goes to show you that voters will almost always side with a hitter. You have to be a generational type of pitcher, and you have to be a guy that pitches beyond your rookie status to win Rookie of the Year. You think about Paul Skenes in Pittsburgh, but even a guy like Spencer Strider. Spencer Strider was one of the best pitchers in Major League Baseball in his rookie year. But it goes to Michael Harris, who was a very, very productive everyday outfielder. Playing everyday matters to these voters for the Rookie of the Year, and the Rookie of the Year is more of a situational award than really anything else. Manager of the Year, it's almost always gonna go to the best team or the team that outperforms expectations the most. And It's kind of an OPS leaderboard award. Like whoever leads an OPS is probably gonna win the MVP award. Whoever leads the, you know, ERA leaderboard and if they're near the top and strikeouts, they're gonna win a Cy Young. But Rookie of the year, you got to play a lot. Games played does matter, and you have to be productive in those games played. And I thought the only thing that would do Baldwin in, because he was on that roster on opening day with the Sean Murphy injury, was Sean Murphy coming back. I thought that was gonna hinder his candidacy, where he was going to be a part-time player. But they got to a point where they kind of relegated Sean Murphy to this part-time role. And obviously, that'll look a little bit different in 2026, Marcelozuna is not. Coming back to Atlanta and Murphy and Baldwin are probably gonna flip-flop between catcher and DH, but Baldwin performed to the point where he took at bats away from an All-Star and an extended guy, a guy that was under contract and Sean Murphy. So credit to Drake Baldwin for being good at the beginning, and that allowed him the leeway to kind of push through the end of the year and win this Rookie of the Year. Let's get to manager of the year tonight. Luke. I'm gonna flip this up here and do NL first and then we'll do American League first, OK? So let's start with that because the reason why is there's no discussion here. Pat Murphy is gonna win the National League Manager of the Year. Uh, either Francona or Rob Thompson will finish 2nd. Is there anything more to add on this? Milwaukee was fantastic. Murphy's been great. He's very popular amongst everybody, and then we can debate the AL a little bit, right? Cut and dry. Cut and dry. Have you started doing the pancake in the back pocket thing? I mean, Pat Murphy eats pancakes and quesadillas out of his pocket now. Yeah, OK, easy one. All right, so now this is a little tougher. American League Manager of the Year, let's try to make people understand. I do this all the time here, but people forget. I don't know how they do forget. That this is voted on before the playoffs begin. So as fun as John Schneider was and as good as Toronto was in the postseason, it's irrelevant for this award. Stephen Vogt had another great year with Cleveland. Dan Wilson finally got Seattle to a position where they almost competed and got to the World Series here. Uh, I'm gonna say I don't know who is gonna win this. I'm still gonna go John Schneider, and I can understand, I can wrap my head around them voting, the voters getting their votes in before Toronto's World Series run. And the reason I still say John Schneider, Stephen Vogt had already won Manager of the Year in 2024. Is he gonna win it in back to back seasons? I have no idea. I feel like natural voter inclination is not vote for the guy that you voted for and won last year. As for Dan Wilson, this was his first year. Seattle was very good. I'm with you. A lot of people expected Seattle to be very good and finish near the top of that division. That's exactly what they did. With Toronto, I feel like a lot of people forget that they were more likely to finish in last place than win the division. And what do they do? They win the division. You could make the argument John Schneider was on the hottest seat in Major League Baseball. Him and Derrick Shelton in Pittsburgh coming into the year, were the two guys that you said, if this doesn't go right for the 1st 50 games, they could be out the door. Derrick Shelton, after 50 games, was out the door. John Schneider ends up What, 6 inches away with IKF's left foot from winning a World Series, but he won the American League East. John Schneider, for me, was the manager of that trio that outperformed expectations the most. I can really appreciate Cleveland's meteoric comeback in the AL Century. But it takes two to tango while Cleveland was playing really well. Detroit was playing incredibly bad. And you've got like, there were no other factors there. Obviously, New York had their flaws and Boston had their flaws. Toronto outright won the American League East when they were forecasted to finish last. So that's why I go Schneider. It will be close. I, I think because of Cleveland was just so hot at the end of the year. That's the last thing that people Remember when they made this vote. OK. American League Cy Young will be tomorrow as well as the NL. The finalists are crochet, Skuble, and Brown. They have to name three. Brown's not gonna win. It's gonna be crochet or Skuble. I feel like Skuble because he led for the majority of the season was the guy, but crochet down the stretch probably better. Is it Skuble winning again? I mean, the numbers look like crochet could be the guy here. I know. I bet they go skubal again because the well-rounded nature of Skuble's go is probably just better. You look at the strikeout totals, 14, is that as negligible as a 221 to a 259 ERA? I think so. But 18-2 is a crazy record. Records, how much do they matter in Major League Baseball in 2025? I go Terri Skuble. Skubba will be the first back to back Cy Young Award winner in the American League since Pedro Martinez in 1999 and 2000. I think I have those years right. Uh, but that is elite company for Terry Skubel to be a part of. It's really 1 A1B when you think about the best pitchers on the planet, and those guys should both win Cy Young's this year and Paul Skenes and Terry Skuble. So you got skins in the NL? Landslide that landslide, yeah, landslide. OK. There's Skenes' numbers can't win games in Pittsburgh, but the other numbers are fantastic. All right, we'll catch just baseball. I know. It is, it is. All right, just baseball coming up, they'll talk MVPs and everything else. Uh, thanks again, Jack, for coming on the show, really appreciate it and I'm sure we'll see each other soon. Thanks again. Thank you, Craig.

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