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Former Phillie Jimmy Rollins gives his thoughts on NL Rookie of the Year
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It's time for Pitch Hit and Run, the official youth skills competition of Major League Baseball. Give the kids in your community a chance to flex their superpowers and they could earn a trip to the national finals of the 2025 World Series presented by Capital One. So go ahead, be the one who powers their dreams, and sign up to host the local Pitch Hit and Run event. It's a free and fun way to promote baseball, softball, and your organization. To learn more, go to pitchhitrun.com. Jimmy Rollins, former shortstop of the Phillies, joins us. You'll see a lot of him coming up here on TBS as the playoffs. Well, Jimmy, J-roll, how are you, mother Anne? I am. I am well. I'm excited about what's happening in baseball. Game A1 was probably the best game of the year with everything on the line, seeing my guy Lindor once again prove why he should probably be the NL MVP. I know everybody's up on show hay, but man, you come up value, and I don't stand him, come up value, but I'm also excited for this AO matchup, which we'll be covering on TBS. There's a lot going on. And honestly, I'll just throw this out there because I sent it to our group chat. I think the wild court series should be played the way this series is right here. Should be a double header on the first day. If there's a sweep, the team earns their day off. If not, then you get that next day, and that way, the strategy and how do you manage, you know, games? Now that the NL is no longer with the DH, I mean, with the, I mean, that none of the game is no longer with the pitcher hitting this all DH, I think that asked some strategy. I think I'm at one exciting day, potentially a baseball around the league. You, you, you, well, that's it. Hello, my friend. You want ultimate chaos. Well, I got, I got, I got, I got to ask you a little bit, you threw it out there. Educate us on, on the Lindor, Otoni MVP conversation because this seems like a foregone conclusion that everybody is saying, Oh, Tani, Oh, Tani, Oh, Tani. They're, they're, they're, they're, you're making a case for Lindor. So, Oh, Tani, what he did, 50-50, you know, 50, he don't run 50 stolen bases. He only affects one side of the baseball, and I'm, and you could call it bias the same way I don't feel a pitcher should win MVP. I don't care what they do. They should be so young that your MVP for that position player affects the ball every day on both sides of the ball and Oh, Tani, he's only affecting on the offensive side. You know, Canada DH win MVP. There's arguments because I don't think it's happened. And we've had some great DHS and, Oh, Tani seems to be an exception. You know, they've already made a rule change form that we can pitch and hit, do everything else you can. So I get it and I get the hype around Shohei and I love Shohei. I was there. I got his rookie card. I know that thing is up in value. So I appreciate Shohei, but was, as we talk about value to a team, the Mets are not there in this position today and didn't clinch today without Lindor and he proved it in my opinion with that big two run homerun and the top of the knife. Without that, they're not there. They're playing for their lives right now in game two, but instead, they're on. Now he's been through injuries and right now he's battling through injuries. And we're talking about value that we're outstanding player. Shohei, Oh, Tani is the most outstanding player in the game this year. What he's done is outstanding. But value to the success of your team. There's no way the Metadill without Lindor and that's why it's called the most valuable player. And that's where I give him the value award. Consider everyone listening, educate it. Let's talk a little bit about this double header. There's a lot of conversations about it being fair and fair. I know I come from the standpoint of, you know, you take care of business, you're not in this situation. Now, whether is what caused this game to be pushed to this point? Do you see some unfairness involved in this, this double header here today? No, not at all, not at all. Personally, I love it just for the excitement. It is going back to when we had the one game playing and baseball was a buzz. You had one day of just chaos. That was like our Super Bowl. You sat there and somebody was going home and somebody was going on. And today you kind of get that feel again and we can't control the weather. They've looked at the schedule and you've been through it. You look at the schedule and you look at common days off and you try to figure it out, figure it out. But it just so happened to be, this is a very unusual situation. And for the game of stuff, I love it. I mean, the excitement of today. And it isn't about fair. I'm fair and I'm with you. If you handle your business of a 162, you avoid being in a situation. But if you are in a situation, you ask those guys on a field, say, I don't care. It's what do we need to do to get in? And that's all you care about. Talking to Jimmy Rollins here, he is an analyst for TBS, heading into the playoffs. And you just talked about how you don't think a pitcher can win an MVP. So I'm going to go towards rookie of the year because I personally think that Paul Skeeds is going to win just because of how things have been going as of late with the media coverage. But who do you think should win nationally rookie of the year Jackson Merrill or Paul Skeeds? I think Jackson Jackson should win. I understand that Paul Skeeds, and this is separate from a value to a team because what Paul Skeeds there was absolutely outstanding. I think you had a sub two year array, 11 six record or something like that. And that's outstanding, and that should be separate from the team, 100%. But it's hard in this situation to take a team that is as bad as the pirates and a team that has been as successful as the Padres and the role that Jackson has played in that team. Big hits with two outs, big rants, lambs, plays a good defense, and is a key component to their success. And like both of them, one was in college last year and he's in a big league, the other was an A ball, and he finds himself in a playoffs. So it's tough. And I do agree with the hype around Paul Skeeds starting the all-star game. All the success that he had is hard to not say he isn't the rookie of the year. But by that same token, I think it's the same with Jackson Merrill. And maybe it's a coworker of the year situation. I don't think that any of them deserve to lose it, and they both deserve to win it. And I'll tell you one thing. That I don't have a vote, Jimmy Rollins joins his TBS analyst. One of the best I've had to ever had the privilege of playing against and playing with. Jimmy, you had a lot of playoff, AB's experience. Just take us through the difference. I know in my three at bats of experience on the playoff stage, the one thing that stood out to me was the height and focus all the way around. Talk about what it's like stepping in the box in the playoffs versus during a regular season. There is a different focus. I mean, even from the umpires, and I'll start from the back of it, the umpires actually call a true strike zone. They start carrying less about a quest tech, and it's like, this is a strike, this is a ball, and it becomes more definitive because you're not trying to get through 162. If it's a four-hour game, then so be it. And I think the umpires appreciate that. But each bat means more. Each bat means more. This bat can win the game. And it's the same during the season, albeit, but winning the game in a playoff means you're one game closer to the next level, one game closer to raising that trophy and have a parade down your respective Broad Street. And that's where the height and focus comes in, what needs to get done, what pitches can I do damage with? You start paying more attention to that. What other pitchers tendency to start paying more attention to that runs in scoring position? This is what this guy likes to do runs in scoring position. This is what I typically do. Do why change that? Because there are no secrets. I'm not, I can't surprise them unless I do something different. But as a hitter, you have to remember, the pitchers done all of a sudden invent pitches, all of a sudden throw harder. Everything remains the same, just more emphasis on the, on the result of the bat. And that's where I think, you know, you can see people float on a pressure or step up and meet the challenge. Talking to Jimmy Rollins here and yes, Tony was right. He does have a lot of postseason experience. He's played in 50 postseason games. So that's a lot. And I'm just wondering what your thoughts are on the Padres heading into the playoffs as they stand right now. They have been incredible since the all-star break. They're continuing to win. What do you think their chances are here in the playoffs? The Padres are a scary team. I think everybody in the NFL has to have their eyes on the Padres just because the way they've played with their revamped bullpen, what Luis Arias is able to do at the top of that lineup. They're no longer a one trick pony just licking in the drive the ball out the yard. They have an all-around game. So I really, really, really like the Padres as a team to get to the NLCS. They've proven that they can play with the Dodgers. They've done it before. They've knocked him out. And if I'm anybody in the NFL, I'm selling myself, we have to have a lead before the sixth inning because it goes back to what Cleveland did way back in 2016. They will sort of aim up to have that type of bullpen. Jeremy, I noticed you said the NLCS and on the other side of the bracket is some alum for you in the Philadelphia Phillies. They've played pretty good baseball for most of the year. They've kind of slowed down here on the back half. Now, that could be because they had such a comfortable lead. They certainly have had their nicks and bruises. Is there any concern about your flying fields? As of September, no, August, I was definitely scared, is that what's going on, guys? And a lot of it does come from when you have a nice comfortable lead. You're looking ahead. You can't help but look ahead because you know what's out there. They've been to the World Series and loss. They've been to the NLCS and loss. And you kind of jumping out the bit, just wanting the season to be over so we can go ahead and get to the playoffs and give ourselves a chance to win the World Series again. But you know, they had some wake up calls, they had some injuries, guys had some great first half and kind of came back to Earth, I guess, the second half. Alvarado, I think, has a four-year array, which isn't typical for him. Bryce battling through things, but Castellanos completely turned it around his first half the second half. Yeah. Schwabers, Ben Schwaber all year long. So they have all the pieces, Nola, he's a big game pitcher, Wheeler, he's up there for Cy Young, Ranger, they got him back, so if he's healthy and pitches healthy like mentally and physically, he'll be great. But he's also a big game pitcher and he doesn't, you know, shy up in the moment. It's almost like he goes the opposite way. So they have their pieces, they have the experience. It's about everything coming together at the right time because we know the best team doesn't always win. A good team will win and a team that's hot will beat anybody in the world. I'm talking to Jimmy Rollins here on 97 through the fan, and MLB Network put out a list of the top five people that have the most pressure heading into the playoffs. And Bryce Harper was on that list, and so I thought it was kind of strange that he would be on that list. But what do you think it would mean for Bryce Harper to go out and win a World Series? Do you think it would alleviate pressure or what are your thoughts on him? Well, I mean, there's pressure to winning, period, let's just start there, and it doesn't matter what uniform, which name is on the back or the front. There's pressure to winning. That's what we played a game for. It's a game that we grew up in. We put that pressure on ourselves since the time we were four or five years old, send us three, two count and you try and throw a strike or you're trying to get that hit. That pressure has been there. So that's something that we live with. But outside of that, pressure is what you make it. Somebody has to win, somebody has to lose. And you're always saying, "I'm the one that's going to win." And if you say you're going to win, you don't feel the pressure, because you'll do whatever it takes to win. And also baseball is not a individual game. Bryce can't hit every time. He can't pitch every time. He can't be there to make every single play. He has his moments. And as long as he's doing his job and inspiring his teammates to be better, there's nothing more that he can do. The results you live with, obviously, he wants to win. He wants a championship, big money and a big market, and he came there to win a championship. I'm sure he's feeling a way about the Nationals winning left. But with all that being said, if Bryce shows up and everybody does their part because the big guys, they're going to have their moments. It's going to be, I hate to say, the role players, there's no such thing. It's going to be the non-superstars that are going to be the ones that contribute the most. Because if they're doing their job, they're going to have to see the big guys in line up. They're going to have to see Schwabber, Turner, and Bryce. But if the quote unquote role players aren't, then we can work around the big guys. Yeah. That's when it gets thick. When the guys who, the non-stars are doing their job, that's when these teams are at their best. Jimmy, as always. Man, I appreciate you coming on. We look forward to listening to and laughing because you guys got a good group on TBS. We're looking forward to it all, man. Thanks for your time. Thanks for having me, guys. Oh, it's such a clutch off-season pickup, Dave. I know, right? 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