A Swing and a Belt with Dan Shulman
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A Swing and a Belt with Dan Shulman
Dan picks an issue, trend, news item or story from around MLB and digs in on it with a guest.
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78 episodes
A Season Like None Other
Without question, the 2020 MLB season was the strangest in baseball history: a pandemic, a shortened schedule, new rules, a team without a home and, i...
A Championship Looms
With the Los Angeles Dodgers leading the Tampa Bay Rays three games to two heading into Game 6 of the World Series, the finish line is now in sight. M...
Nomar On The Series
The World Series is off to a great start, with the favoured Dodgers tied up at one with the Rays. Six-time All-Star Nomar Garciaparra, who covers the...
David vs. Goliath?
The World Series is upon us, with the top seeds representing the American and National Leagues. Just like we all expected the season to play out when...
Armed For The Future
Pete Walker is the pitching coach for the Toronto Blue Jays. And in this strange and unprecedented 2020 season, he worked with 28 pitchers across a 60...
L.A. Looking To Dodge An Upset
There’s a new rivalry out west. The Dodgers are getting a push from the young, fun San Diego Padres. Led by Fernando Tatis Jr. and Manny Machado, the...
Familiarity Breeds Contempt
We are on to the Division Series and, in the American League, they are both truly divisional series. The teams know each other well, and don’t like ea...
Next Stop: The Trop
The Rays? Really, the Rays!? Yes, chances are the Blue Jays will play Tampa in the Wild Card Round beginning Tuesday. Andy Freed, one of the Rays’ rad...
Kyle Dubas’s Other Favourite Sport
As GM of the Toronto Maple Leafs, Kyle Dubas is known for having grown up in hockey. But his love of baseball runs deep, from time spent with his gran...
It’s Hot Over Here, Too
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is trying to find his way at first base, a position he had never played prior to this season. Former big leaguers Justin Morneau...
The Youngest Old Man In Baseball
Joe Panik is not old, but on the Blue Jays, he must certainly feel like he is. He won the World Series with the San Francisco Giants as a rookie in 20...
32 Years Is A Long Time
The underdog Los Angeles Dodgers fought their way to the 1988 World Series championship, beating the heavily favoured Oakland Athletics… and they have...
And Down The Stretch They Come
It’s the stretch run… barely a week to go in the regular season. And there is much to be decided between now and when the playoffs begin. Former GM an...
Remote Reporting
Part of being a Major League Baseball reporter is building relationships with the teams and players you cover. It can take years. Now, you can’t go in...
Giant Issues
It has been an interesting season for the San Francisco Giants. Like every team, the coronavirus has impacted them. But somehow even more pressing rig...
The Yankees Are Coming
They are expected to win… virtually every year. They are, after all, the New York Yankees. Big names, big payroll, big expectations. After a great sta...
Baby Jays
He knew them back in the day, even if “back in the day” was only a few years ago. Toronto Blue Jays coach John Schneider managed Vladimir Guerrero Jr....
Play Ball!
For Major League umpires, COVID-19 has changed everything. How often do you need to get tested? How do you get from city to city? How different are th...
Slam Diego
In 2020, any excuse to have fun is welcome. And no team is having more fun right now than the San Diego Padres. Second in the National League, they ha...
Clemente
Roberto Clemente was more than just a Hall of Famer. He remains a hero to baseball fans in Puerto Rico, Pittsburgh and elsewhere. Dan is joined by Car...
“A Cruise Ship Scenario”
Despite two significant coronavirus outbreaks and a lot of concern, we are now in baseball’s stretch run. MLB has reportedly planned for postseason bu...
The Swing Path
Dante Bichette enjoyed an outstanding 14-year big league career. Part of the feared ‘Blake Street Bombers’ in Colorado, Bichette was a four-time All-S...
Ol’ Roy And The Mick
North Carolina Tar Heels coach Roy Williams is a legend in the college basketball world; a Hall of Famer who has achieved everything there is to be ac...
Prospects Are Cool. Parades Are Cooler.
As hard as it is to believe, it’s September. Baseball is still here, and we have pennant races. Today, in Part 2 of our chat with MLB Network Radio’s...
What A Mets!
Imagine loving a team so much, it consumes you. Now imagine that team provides you with more anguish than joy, to the point where you wish that you ne...
And The Winner Is…
This year no one knew quite what to expect at the trade deadline, but it felt strangely… normal. Deals were made; contenders bulked up; the scene was...
Walking The Walk
Cavan Biggio has a keen eye, both between the white lines and beyond. Whether it’s forcing a pitcher into the strike zone or having a great sense of w...
Live From Bristol, It’s Sunday Night Baseball
Jeff Dufine got the promotion of a lifetime over the winter when ESPN gave him the chance to produce Sunday Night Baseball. And then the pandemic shut...
Fun On The South Side
The Chicago White Sox are often overlooked — the “second team” in their own town. Now, they’re forcing people to take notice about what’s happening on...
A Katz And Dogs Year
Any other year, if player agents are fortunate enough to have a few major league clients, things go smoothly. They negotiate contracts, look for clien...
The Prospects For Baseball’s Prospects
The 2020 baseball season is unlike any we’ve ever seen before, for many obvious reasons. Not only at the Major League level, but perhaps even more so...
How The New Normal Becomes Just… Normal
Richard Deitsch is a sports reporter, and a big part of his job is covering sports media. Who’s calling which games for which network, the business of...
A World Away
Jamie Romak is a ballplayer. And he’s been around. Part of seven major league organizations with some time in the big leagues a few years back. Since...
A Centennial Celebration of Black Lives
For decades, segregation in the U.S. meant many of the best ballplayers in the world were forced to find their own league to play in, and thus, 100 ye...
“Embracing The Suck”
All Ryan Borucki ever wanted was to be a big-league pitcher. As a skinny high-school kid, his chances didn’t look great — until a growth spurt took hi...
Making The Best Of Things
COVID-19 has made this a weird season for everyone in baseball, especially prospects. Simeon Woods Richardson, 19, is on the Toronto Blue Jays’ 60-man...
Fili-BUSTER!
The 2020 baseball season is unlike any we’ve ever seen before. From health and safety protocols, to the season being just 60 games, to rule changes —...
Grandpa’s In Charge
David Ross was as respected and beloved a player as there was in the game — his leadership helped propel the Red Sox and Cubs to World Series champion...
St. Louis Blues
The St. Louis Cardinals are respected throughout the industry and pride themselves on doing things “the Cardinal Way.” But none of that matters one bi...
Home Away From Home
The Blue Jays’ long journey to finding a home has reached its end — in Buffalo, at Sahlen Field, which is not your typical minor league park. It is, i...