CESPEDES FAMILY BARBECUE

Welcome to Barbecast 57! Our special guest this week (at 17:23) is one of the best college pitchers in the country, Andrew Moore! Andrew is the Friday starter for the Oregon State Beavers, and he decided to spend the night before his start against Arizona State talking to us about (mostly) silly things, including: his […]

What you’re about to listen to is a recording of Lana and I reading a story that Jake wrote when he was in 4th grade. The story is about a baseball player named Carlos Garcia. This is the story of the boy who never gave up. We apologize for the constant laughter throughout. Please rate […]

Daniel Hudson Does Not Like Pablo Sandoval :( Welcome to Barbecast 37! It’s our second one of the week, and our last one before we venture off to Texas. Our special guest this week is major league pitcher Daniel Hudson of the Arizona Diamondbacks (starts around 19:35). Daniel has had Tommy John surgery twice, so he seemed like […]

Barbecast 36! Our special guest this week is a new minor league friend of ours. His name is Spencer Trygg and he is a right-handed pitcher in the depths of the Los Angeles Angels minor league system. We talked to Spencer about playing in the Pioneer League, the quirks of D3 baseball, and the even […]

Welcome to Barbecast 35! It has been over two weeks since our last full Barbecast but Finals Week is over and the summer has just begun, so here ya go. Our special guest this week is Zachary Levine, writer at Baseball Prospectus and former Astros beat writer for the Houston Chronicle. We talked to Zachary […]

Welcome to Barbecast 34.5! Jake and I are both very busy with final papers, exams, and other fun academic stuff, so we can’t give you a full barbecast this week. What we do have is a spectacular interview with former major league pitcher Brian Bannister. We talked to Brian for over an hour about a […]

Click here for all previous previews.   Brewer Eyes Off-season Haiku: Weird place for Garza. They got Will Smith, movie star! Oh. Not that one. Damn. Best Names in the Farm System: OF Hainley Statia C Robinzon Diaz RHP Santo Manzanillo 3B Shea Vucinich OF Brock Kjeldgaard OF Chadwin Stang RHP Damien Magnifico OF T.J. Mittelstaedt […]

Click here for all previous previews.  Marlin Eyes Off-season Haiku: I don’t know. I guess Miami got Saltier. Other than that, blah. Best Names in the Farm System: RHP Anthony DeSclafani C Sharif Othman 2B Terrence Dayleg RHP Jheyson Manzueta RHP Dane Stone 1B Viosergy Rosa OF Jesus Solorzano 3B J.T. Riddle OF Wildert Pujols […]

Welcome to Barbecast 34! We took a week off, but we’re back with big one. Our guest this week is Bill Baer of Crashburn Alley, Hardball Talk, and Being-A-Cool-Person-On-Twitter fame. We talked to Bill about the state of his beloved Phillies, Ben Revere not hitting any dingers, Barry Bonds doing Barry Bonds things, and his […]

Click here for all previous previews.  Athletic Eyes (including injured Jarrod Parker) Off-season Haiku: A bunch of weird trades. Kazmir and Punto. GET PUMPED. We love Yoenis. Best Names in the Farm System: 1B Max Muncy OF D’Arby Myers OF Conner Crumbliss 3B Miles Head 3B B.A. Vollmuth C Nick Rickles RHP Kayvon Bahramzadeh LHP […]

Click here for all previous previews. Padre Eyes Off-season Haiku: They made some odd trades and gambled on Josh Johnson. Joaquin Benoit! Yay! Best Names in the Farm System: RHP Kevin Quackenbush RHP Adys Portillo SS Bridger Hunt RHP Walker Weickel 1B Diego Goris OF Mallex Smith 2B River Stevens DH Malquiel Brito LHP Payton […]

Because one huge post and constant tweets weren’t enough, we’ve got an entire episode devoted to the most important rivalry in CFBBQ history. To help moderate our debate and provide a remarkably neutral perspective on the issue, we invited Bill Hanstock of SB Nation and Progressive Boink fame. He shared his personal experiences with both, his favorite Kelly/Avril songs, […]

Welcome to Barbecast 27, the Mike Trout Is the Greatest Player of All Time and Wears No. 27 edition. Our special guest this week is the Mariners beat writer for the Seattle Times, Ryan Divish. We talked to Ryan about Robinson Cano ACTUALLY BEING ON THE MARINERS, how unbelievably slow Jesus Montero is, Felix’s neck […]

We’re back! After some time to recover from the insanity of Barbecast 25, we’re here with another obnoxiously long podcast. Our special guest this week is Eno Sarris, finally. Eno writes for all the baseball websites and loves beer. So we talked about beer. And baseball. He also talked about Darwin Barney calling him a […]