Five and Dive, Episode 540: Get (Joe) Carter

About this episode

The hosts discuss various baseball topics including the Red Sox's coaching changes and the NL Central's competitiveness.

In Episode 540, Patrick, Jeffrey and Craig chat about emergency broadcast texts and SABR 1.0 negotiations and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. Shipping Out of Boston: The Red Sox clean house via CoachesforHire 2. Central Planning: Let's chat NL Central. It's....actually interesting? 3. Around the Horn: ATH is mostly DFA 4. What to Watch: Some intriguing interleague matchups, and a less intriguing Wild Card round rematch. 5. You will never stop remembering Shea Hillenbrand. Five and Dive is listener-supported, you can join our Patreon at patreon.com/fiveanddive . If you want to get in contact with the show, the e-mail address is fiveanddive@baseballprospectus.com . Our theme tune is by Andy Matthews, who you can follow on Bluesky @andymatthewsmusic . You can listen to him on Spotify and Apple Music . It was produced by Barrie Maguire and Tim Ferguson.

People in this episode

Hosts: Patrick, Jeffrey, Craig

Topics covered

• Red Sox
• NL Central
• DFA
• interleague matchups
• Wild Card round

Keywords

• baseball
• Red Sox
• SABR
• NL Central
• DFA
• interleague matchups
• Wild Card
• Shea Hillenbrand

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: SABR, CoachesforHire

Places: Boston, NL Central

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