{"id":608035,"date":"2026-03-05T16:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T16:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/608035\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T16:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T16:44:13","slug":"episode-37-spring-training-is-heating-up-podcasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/608035\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 37: Spring Training is Heating Up &#8211; Podcasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tAlex and Maddie dive into some surprising names (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/gaspemi01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=talksox.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-05_br\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mickey Gasper<\/a>) that have been tearing it up in Grapefruit League action, and some not so surprising like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/duranja01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=talksox.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-05_br\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jarren Duran<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/rafaece01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=talksox.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-05_br\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ceddanne Rafaela<\/a>. They move on to their WBC predictions and discuss whether strong showings from Duran and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/y\/yoshima02.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=talksox.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-05_br\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Masataka Yoshida<\/a> make either more tradable as the season gets underway. They both make their fifth starter predictions and give <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/t\/tollepa01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=talksox.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-05_br\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Payton Tolle<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/e\/earlyco01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=talksox.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-05_br\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Connelly Early<\/a> their flowers for strong starts to camp, before making strong cases for why the Red Sox shouldn&#8217;t trade for Issac Paredes now that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/durbica01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=talksox.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-05_br\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caleb Durbin<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/mayerma01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=talksox.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-05_br\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marcelo Mayer<\/a> are settling into positions.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tListen on Apple Podcasts: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-talk-sox-podcast\/id1783204104\" ipsnoembed=\"true\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-talk-sox-podcast\/id1783204104<\/a>\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tListen on Spotify: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/3qPrPXEngu0CxgTmlf0ynm\" ipsnoembed=\"true\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/3qPrPXEngu0CxgTmlf0ynm<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tListen on iHeartRadio: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/263-the-talk-sox-podcast-244591331\/\" ipsnoembed=\"true\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/263-the-talk-sox-podcast-244591331\/<\/a>\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tListen on Pocket Casts: <a href=\"https:\/\/pca.st\/4tmd121v\" ipsnoembed=\"true\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/pca.st\/4tmd121v<\/a>\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWatch on YouTube: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@talksox\" ipsnoembed=\"true\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@talksox<\/a>\u00a0\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex and Maddie dive into some surprising names (Mickey Gasper) that have been tearing it up in Grapefruit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2375],"tags":[5,141,48,2542,1396,36543,604,4,3973,4238,89,2543,151,4820],"class_list":["post-608035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boston-red-sox","tag-baseball","tag-boston","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-bostonredsox","tag-ceddanne-rafaela","tag-connelly-early","tag-jarren-duran","tag-mlb","tag-payton-tolle","tag-podcast","tag-red-sox","tag-redsox","tag-spring-training","tag-world-baseball-classic"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116177578693230358","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}