Pierre Camus and Nicklaus Gaut recap the action from Opening Day and the first weekend of MLB action for 2020. They identify early risers and fallers, review Statcast numbers, and discuss major injuries.
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Is It Too Early to Panic?
Pierre and Nick recap the first week of actual regular-season action.
Players and topics discussed:
- Shohei Ohtani gets torched 3:00
- Aces who struggled (Jose Berrios, Lucas Giolito, Charlie Morton, James Paxton) - 5:52
- Tommy Pham stealing like crazy - 12:50
- Joey Votto reborn - 15:25
- Shane Bieber lights out - 17:37
- Early Statcast returns - 19:23
- Pitching velocity gainers (Brandon Woodruff, Chris Paddack, )- 20:20
- Pitching velocity fallers (Aaron Nola, Madison Bumgarner, Liam Hendriks, Mitch Keller)- 22:00
- Sandy Alcantara a budding ace? - 28:35
- Luis Robert's ridiculous EV - 32:38
- Undervalued Rangers (Rougned Odor, Danny Santana) - 37:00
- Exit velocity slackers (Howie Kendrick, Miguel Sano, Renato Nunez) - 41:27
- Justin Verlander injury status - 45:00
- Corey Kluber worth holding - 49:27
- When will Clayton Kershaw pitch again? - 53:28
- Quick Hits (Kyle Lewis, Miguel Rojas, Ryan McMahon, Zac Gallen, Ji-Man Choi) - 1:01:45
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