BWB 002 - Baseball players are humans, too

BWB 002 - Baseball players are humans, too   Welcome to Breakfast with the Beats with Mike Carter and Dave Funnell. On today's episode, Mike and Dave go over their best free agent pickups of the week: Dave - Jeremiah Jackson Mike - Max Muncy Beat writer round-up: Does Yankees manager Aaron Boone view Ben Rice as a platoon player? 'Hell no'https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7196965/2026/04/15/ben-rice-yankees-platoon-aaron-boone/ by Chris Kirschner Once a far-away dream, the Pirates' talented, homegrown rotation has become realityhttps://www.mlb.com/pirates/news/pirates-are-mlb-s-team-with-an-entirely-homegrown-starting-rotation by Jason Mackey 'He crushed it': Schultz K's 4 in MLB debut as proud family cheers him onhttps://www.mlb.com/whitesox/news/noah-schultz-makes-mlb-debut-for-white-sox?t=mlb-pipeline-coverage by Scott Merkin Hoerner's minor swing adjustments paying major dividends for Cubshttps://www.mlb.com/news/nico-hoerner-has-career-high-five-rbis-to-lead-cubs-to-win by Jordan Bastian Help! What should Mike do with Matt McLain? Major League Mental Health: Kazuma Okamoto vs Tatsuya Imai How Okamoto is handling the Major League learning curvehttps://www.mlb.com/bluejays/news/kazuma-okamoto-adjusts-to-his-major-league-life-in-toronto by Keegan Matheson Houston Astros' Tatsuya Imai 'not able to adjust to the American lifestyle,' interpreter sayshttps://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7196880/2026/04/14/astros-tatsuya-imai-injury-adjustment/ by Chandler Rome Listener Question: Carlos Estévez or Kirby Yates? Mental Health Moment: How do we handle the struggles of work? How do we make it through the day? Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.