Dust off the bobbleheads and display your hat collection. It’s time to hop on The Bandwagon. Join Yahoo Sports’ Hannah Keyser and Zach Crizer for a weekly conversation about the rapidly evolving world of baseball. From the bullpen to the front office, Hannah delivers perspectives from inside MLB organizations, and Zach goes full moneyball to provide the analytics angle as they critically dissect the stories and topics guiding baseball each week. Closing out each show, they hop on a new bandwagon and tell you the team or player for whom you should abandon your hometown allegiance and become the ultimate fair-weather fan.
Hannah and Zach go through the news of the day, including Aaron Judge looking sideways during an at-bat and causing controversy in the process, before playing a game and then discussing how great the entire AL East has been so far this season.
01:30 Aaron Judge’s side-eye
14:05 Wilson Contreras is catching again
14:20 A’s buy (other) land in Las Vegas
16:45 ZACH’S GAME: Non-Shortstops that have played shortstop
25:40 AL East supremacy
30:15 Baltimore Orioles’ Bird Bath Splash Zone
37:00 Is it too easy to win the AL Central?
41:00 AL East predictions
44:35 BANDWAGON: Zac Gallen
49:30 What we’re watching this weekend
Hannah and Zach kick off the podcast by addressing the storm that Hannah walked into last night when she posted a gif of Aaron Judge looking out the side of his eye during an at-bat that ended in the HR. Was it cheating? What was he doing?
They quickly skip over the news of Wilson Contreras moving back to catcher and mostly dismiss the news about the Oakland A’s purchasing yet another plot of land in Las Vegas that could potentially be their future home.
Zach is intrigued by Mookie Betts playing SS for the Los Angeles Dodgers, so he quizzes Hannah on some famous non-shortstops that have played the position in the majors.
The AL East is really good. There’s an argument that the entire division is better than even the best team in the AL Central. As such, Hannah and Zach try to talk their way through the division but get distracted by “Mr. Splash” and the Baltimore Orioles’ Bird Bath Splash Zone.
Finally, Hannah’s bandwagon this week hits close to home. South Jersey’s own Zac Gallen has been bandwagoning himself, and is even better this season after being great last year, so Hannah is jumping on board and hoping that this is another Sandy Alcantara-like season in the works.
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