Referencing Baseball with Trevor Plouffe!

[@scott3806]

I feel like Bailey has a lot more pro players that are fans of his than he realizes. I hope this isn’t the one and only episode

[@samwatters1652]

Ok, scott rolen

[@alidesrochers1066]

I’m sure his pals from the ‘01 Braves keep up with his work

[@37willdog]

I’m pretty sure Giolito will want to do this. He’s a big fan

[@virtsie]

verlander episode 😳

[@jimc.goodfellas]

I'd be willing to bet there are other players that watch his channels

[@Kartracer-pq6tl]

Foolish Bailey and Trevor Plouffe, the video that we’ve all been waiting for!

[@CadChamberlain]

Is this THE One-Time Double plays grounded into leader Trevor Plouffe?

[@StupidBirdsFan]

Proud to say I saw Trevor’s last career home run and Utleys last hit at CBP on the same night. I believe Trevor hit a walkoff in the 17th inning off of Kike Hernandez. Great stuff! Fun memory for me! Go Phils

[@tjwong5333]

Also was there. What a wild game (and a really late night)!

[@retro_retro_retro]

The video we all needed, but did not deserve.

[@thomashall3611]

real ones knew Plouffe was coming after he dropped some hints on Jomboy

[@tusk779]

he said something on baseball today last thursday or friday I think right?

[@thomashall3611]

@@tusk779 yeah something like that i can’t remember exactly when

[@EricMichaelCross]

Stathead lists 2,898 seasons of at least 24 homers, and only 7 of those have lower RBI totals than Plouffe's 55 in 2012. Next interview is for the rest of his team to determine why they absolutely refused to get on base ahead of him.

[@Drogon7102]

He just got unlucky i guess.

[@hendog5396]

Because he was on the twins -twins fan

[@thomashall3611]

also Special T should be everyone’s favorite 7.3 WAR player

[@MovingBlanketStudio]

"most of my creative pursuits end in a one-off" - okay, I hereby officially approve of this channel.

[@mylesclark8687]

I remember him hitting the first home run of the year for the Twins in 2015 in Baltimore. As a Twins fan, he was one of my favorite players, I always viewed him as a underated fielder, with pop. Even when he was in a slump, I watched him a respected him in any at-bat. Going to a Twins game and hearing the whole stadium go Plooooooouuuuuufe was always awesome. Miss you in the corner.

[@Whitsoxrule1]

Plouffe's manager in the Fall League was a Rafael Santana according to the MLB website, which for some reason has a detailed history of all the AFL teams. Santana was a shortstop for the Mets in mid-late 80s

[@icarusmarioFAN]

Oh my god, that's the guy from the Get Metsmerized song

[@wcs1870]

As a longtime journalist, Bailey my boy, you're onto some absolute gold here. It'll be a bit awkward figuring out how to vibe with your guest in this kind of format, being that you're essentially nitpicking at the advanced metrics of someone's career and how well they performed, while also trying to keep things relaxed and casual, but that'll happen naturally. I cant wait for the next episode of this series. Keep it up.

[@jason_22282]

I like this concept. Thanks, Bailey. Hope there’ll be more in the future. Perhaps Nick Swisher next?

[@im_waffles2920]

Ah yes my favorite former Major League Baseball player for the Minnesota Twins oh yeah and Trevor Plouffe

[@jmsd25]

Braves 2001 not twins

[@whitneyokeefe5505]

Just read your part in the MLB Prospectus! It was great, congrats! Finally you’re getting that recognition you deserve!

[@FoolishBailey]

thanks! haven't gotten my hands on the book yet, but glad you liked it

[@chriscollum5658]

damn I'm jealous your copy came already, I'm still patiently waiting for mine to ship

[@nottarealla9336]

This is an amazing idea for a baseball interview series.

[@306devon]

My 2 very favorite baseball media persons! Yesssss

[@BoyYuKrazy]

This was AWESOME. Love how Bailey shows Trev some facts about his career that even Trev didn't know. I think a lot of players would love to do this.

[@wwpjd28]

This was a great concept and really fun first episode. I felt like you had great stats planned out to talk about, and you and Trev vibed really well. I think I'd watch any of these you want to make - always great to get to know more Major Leaguers as guys and hear some of their thoughts on their careers, even with guys we know well like Plouffe.

[@qbambae]

Please do more of these! This is a real fun interview

[@bananaman4589]

Please do more of these. It was really fascinating hearing him talk about his career. It’s more than just chatting with a friend. You are hearing stories that probably haven’t really been told. I really enjoyed this video Bailey.

[@LukeLiberatore]

"Oh I like Foolish Baseball and Trevor Plouffe. Wow, 57 minutes? No way, but ill check it out for a few". And here I am. 57 minutes and 18 seconds later. That was awesome from start to finish! Please do more of these!

[@FoolishBailey]

glad you liked it!

[@LukeLiberatore]

@@FoolishBailey Yessir! Keep up the good stuff

[@GotDamBoi]

I love baseball reference and I love you both so this is pretty neat

[@Stewieboy1995]

Trevor seems very nice and humble, seems like just a great guy.

[@brandonmcmullen]

As a St. Pete resident I appreciate Trev giving our city some love. The Trop certainly has its issues so I'm glad to hear that he didn't hate playing in it. And Bailey should totally come check it out! Maybe we'll have a series against the braves sometime.

[@eeeyyyeee]

Bailey this channel is GOLD. I think it's going to be a low-key major success.

[@PhillyFella]

Knew I was waiting to smoke this doob for good reason. I’ve found the perfect moment.

[@TheGc72340]

I'd love to see Jerry Blevins have an interview like this!

[@mattpetrek712]

I love this nitty gritty baseball talk, need more of this!

[@Grizzbit]

I know him from his career as a basebol player. He played for da Fillys 😎

[@smeebs]

This is pretty great! A good mixture of all the stuff that makes foolish content so good, and a creative way to do an interview. It's like version 2 of the lucas giolito collab where you've trimmed and polished the format. I would definitely love to see more.

[@AllenYouTubeAccount]

You should definitely do more of this

[@wilks1878]

As a former 1B, I've always thought it was WAY more important than modern analytics would let you believe, and I'm glad Trev agrees. You don't really appreciate a good 1B until you've played with a bad one, and then you can understand how much value they provide.

[@sh3vski543]

Rafael Santana was the manager for the 2007 Phoenix Desert Dogs

[@montueswedthursfri]

Plouffe was so comfortable doing this, it was great

[@thereminslilly8782]

This actually is a really good idea for a series. Hope you do more if you want to.

[@excellentbill69]

One thing Baseball Reference can't keep track of is how many times you got the ball stuck in your glove.

[@Scottsetchell]

This is Episode 1 of the best baseball content on the internet. A series that in time will hit 100 episodes with acclaim. Begin with Rojas, Glasnow, Giolito, May, Brault and roll with it!

[@DT-xw9rr]

As a Royals fan who watched a lot of Plouffe, he was a legitimate scary at bat from an opposing fans POV

[@dfp_01]

I'm looking forward to the Joey Votto episode

[@siddthekid5046]

I LOVE YOU BAILEY PROVIDING THE BASEBALL CONTENT WE NEED

[@lordloquat]

The perfect crossover doesn't exi......

[@Retired_Detective51]

Oh, this is going to be a great series! Foolish needs to grow the hell out of this idea. Maybe focus on players that like to make fun of themselves and let loose a bit on camera. Trevor is the perfect personality style this project needs to be successful. I’ll be watching !!!

[@codycrossman5791]

This show is my new freakin' favorite! Baseball, Rollerblading and music are the 3 reasons I allow KZbin to exist on my phone. This is a dope addition to the shit I dig 👌🤘

[@straightfrom]

Absolutely excellent. Kindly do more!!!

[@chrismaloney1402]

BRING THIS BACK DUDE!! THERE HAS TO BE MORE PLAYERS THAT WANT TO DO THIS

[@ArielGarcia-Carela]

this was awesome please keep this going

[@stackq999]

This was super cool! If you do another one, Giolito would be a great guest

[@paulbaeza7]

It’s kinda weird to see how we judge like player age. Like when Trevor said the first time he faced Scherzer was in the minors it felt weird for me, even though I know they’re about the same age. The difference is like my brain considers Trevor Plouffe to be a young baseball media guy, and Max Scherzer to be an old baseball player guy, if that makes sense.

[@birdsong1897]

When is the one with Barry Bonds?

[@djbongwater]

oh dear god I love this premise so much

[@thomasnewton8223]

This was really cool to see as a jomboy fan. I honestly didn’t know much about plouffes career so really cool to hear more details about it :)

[@Zack-wq2hl]

I have a few questions about the discussion at about 19:30. 1) Why does loving closer to the foul line increase WAR(or as you mentioned an outfielder moving back)? You mention that it limits extra base hits. What about WAR favors players that are good at preventing extra base hits? 2) Listen to what Trevor says at about 19:45. He says that "idk if front offices are going to tell you to do that" and that players should "play that game" to do all they can to increase their WAR. Obviously it is in the players incentive to increase their WAR, but isn't it still in the teams incentive as well. Why would a team not want a player increasing their WAR, if it only makes them more valuable. Trevor suggests this(very slightly) that increasing individual WAR may not always be best for the team. Is that true and in what cases would that be true? Just curious on the interpretation of that.

[@FoolishBailey]

My interpretation of both 1) Moving closer to the foul line (at least in Trevor's case) resulted in an increase in his overall defensive metrics. His WAR increased because the defensive component of WAR (in this case, Defensive Runs Saved) increased. 2) WAR and team wins aren't always 1:1 correlated. I think Trev felt that taking a step closer to the line artificially increased his WAR. He appeased the defensive metrics, but didn't necessarily become a more effective defender. And if WAR becomes a standard for salary arbitration, then players who use defensive positioning to increase their WAR would have money to gain, and the front offices money to lose.

[@Zack-wq2hl]

@@FoolishBailey, thanks for the very interesting and detailed response. I see exactly what you mean, however I feel like the move closer to the line is still a very clearly beneficial change to the help the team win. He did artificially increase his WAR just like you stated(which is a weird way of becoming "better"). However, when Trevor made this change, he did become better at run prevention(at least by metrics used in WAR). He became a more effective fielder, and is therefore more valuable to the team. So is a team's main goal is to win games(and prevent runs), he probably helped the team. Though you bring up an interesting point with money to gain in salary arbitration. Trevor's(or any player in this situation) small positioning change probably led to more money in his pocket, and more for the team to spend on him. And Trevor's point on if a team would tell players this is interesting. In the paragraph above, I said a team whose main goal is to win would welcome that change. But would a team who is tanking not advertise this change only to save money during arbitration. I guess Trevor is somewhat suggesting that teams may do that. He also brought up a great point on how this can be dangerous if MLB implements WAR directly into player's salaries. The real question would then be, would a tanking team actively prevent a player from increasing his WAR in order to save money? That seems unlikely(but in theory, possible) and borderline unethical to me.

[@PoopVintner]

Finally a collab I can fully get behind

[@Beans981]

Should’ve asked him about 28 gdp in 2015. Sounds like the most frustrating stat of all time almost 20 more than any other year

[@jimc.goodfellas]

Big agree about Baseball Reference...can't tell how many hours I've spent poring over stats on there over the years

[@jaredrubino1889]

Amazing interview- such a perfect format. Can we potentially get a jerry blevins episode?

[@Harmaxium]

Please, more of these.

[@brendau94]

the crossover we have been waiting for!!

[@dwest9cubs]

oh this needs to be a series

[@channelname5345]

Im not someone understands baseball stats super well or off the back of my hand but this was super interesting to watch

[@seang4]

Looking forward to more of these!

[@Emmdotfrisk]

Love this format. Cool to learn more about special T 🙏

[@FoolishBailey]

Thanks man!

[@InessentialMotionPictures]

Damn that thumb story at the very end stings. But Trevor’s gratitude and that streak being responsible for his career, for $22 million and major media success makes all of this so neatly wrapped.

[@SadMarinersFan]

An interesting thing about defense at 1B is statistically the best defensive 1B this year was Ty France, someone who was a 3B basically his whole career. Just goes to show how much defense is something that can be learned when you have a dedicated position to learn.

[@Tmalbers21]

Auto-subscribe after that interview. Great stuff man 👍

[@trenthadler5998]

holy fuck this was an amazing watch.

[@olivergoodacre]

That was really great, well done both of you!

[@osogeo]

Algo bump. This is a great idea.

[@salvatorearena3187]

This is about as random as it gets, but I’ve been coaching against Lastings Millege’s travel team for over a year now. 1st Round Training Diamonds. He’s a super nice guy and does a great job with the kids

[@scsmith4604]

If the Twins were not into analytics it is not surprising that Trevor did not focus on getting on base because batting in the middle of the lineup traditionally means you need to knock in runs. Had come up with an analytical system in the minors he likely would have had a different outlook on his approach. Great career nonetheless. I wonder if he ever played on any teams with the guy from Antonelli Baseball? I like that channel too.

[@paulbaeza7]

I really wanna see more of this

[@d2s260]

Mike Trout baseball reference

[@nathanmcguire932]

I would love to see JJ Hardy or Rickie Weeks on this series. I feel like they both had interesting careers from a baseball reference standpoint

[@johnjohnsonjohn]

Nerd and jock nerd out over jock's nerd numbers

[@jakegoeke4146]

Spider-Man: Far From Home

[@wolfie0890]

I know it’s tough but would love to see a bit bigger video feed in some parts. Maybe I like watching people tell stories or to see your reactions, etc. Otherwise, amazing content; good, wholesome, baseball listen. Hope for many more of these.

[@wolfie0890]

Sorry. I’ll watch the whole vid next time.

[@eazypeazy33]

‼️‼️‼️This kid is the future of Baseball Commentary & Analyzing. Love to know if you have your degree. Journalism or mass comm. I know you know you could step it up. But then it takes the fun & hobby type vibe from it. Good luck man! 👍🏽 if you choose, your destined for big things..

[@BombOmbBuddy]

Feel like this could be a great podcast!

[@MrFallingcats]

If this becomes a series as we all hope, is there any chance you could release these in podcast form? I'd love to listen on the way to work and stuff. Great work! :)

[@dpal35]

How tf did Trevor perfectly predict the 2021 WS? "Braves over Astros in 6"...

[@TheGMonstah]

As a Twins fan Trev is one of my favorite players,and he's a cool dude too

[@ILoveMisty1985]

Today I learned that Trevor Plouffe was born a day before Jamie Moyer made his Major League debut. Alas, he never got a chance to face Moyer.

[@SpencerDGoose]

Like this format a lot!

[@ianngalbraith]

Plouffe has a long baseball media career ahead of him if he chooses to have it.

[@DefaultHandleName]

Love me some Plouffe, great guest and great content

[@max_fischer]

Plouffish Baseball. Love it

[@TDansVids]

Great video, only minor gripe is it would be nice to have larger face cam during the baseball reference screens

[@samuelclayton08]

such an art brute way to end the film. love it

[@digiunfiltered]

this series could be legit

[@historyboss1775]

Can we please have another episode of referencing baseball

[@Trizzer89]

Plouffe was unable to help turn around the Twins. itd be interesting to hear what issues exist there

[@Arden2000]

Can we get Adam Dunn on the show just to ask him how he owned Kershaw?

[@dfp_01]

Secret Base collab? Honestly if I saw Bailey & Jon Bois interviewing any baseball player that'd make my year

[@hughjass5156]

Oh, what a cool idea this is.

[@darwinwins]

Eddie caught some strays on his day off.

[@dustinbarnes778]

He was above replacement, so that's fair!

[@connorleahy2792]

Had no idea that Trevor was from Casteezy, CA

[@jaki505]

pls more of this

[@drewbreezy5854]

Nice interview sir

[@TheTEN24]

This is an awesome collab also Trev isn’t wrong I was a stud youth baseball player and that was about it lol. Trev is on point 1st base isn’t that easy and has a lot of responsibilities