About this episode

Kevin Barker joins the show to discuss draft interviews and the Blue Jays' roster decisions.

Hour three of the Big Show with George Rusic and Matt Rose is on demand! To start hour three, former MLBer and Co-host of Blair and Barker Kevin Barker joins the show to talk about the draft interviews, Kevin shares his draft interview and draft day stories, discuss what the Blue Jays should do with Brandon Valenzuela once Alejandro Kirk returns from injury, and looks at what the Blue Jays are doing with their starting pitchers! (28:39) Later, the guys hit you with their picks of the night in another edition of the Lock of the Day brought to you by Play Alberta! And Intern Connor gives his world cup recap for the day!

People in this episode

Hosts: George Rusic, Matt Rose

Guest: Kevin Barker

Topics covered

• MLB
• Blue Jays
• draft interviews
• starting pitchers
• world cup recap

Keywords

• Kevin Barker
• Blue Jays
• draft
• Brandon Valenzuela
• Alejandro Kirk
• starting pitchers
• Lock of the Day
• world cup

Sponsors

Play Alberta

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Blue Jays

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