Outside Baseball: Recent Episodes
Seth Nefsky
Outside Baseball is a podcast where MLB fanatic, Drew Frank, tries to catch his friend, Seth Nefsky up on the MLB after Seth stopped paying attention to the league in 2016. Hilarity ensues.
Drew, Seth and special guest former Richmond Hill Phoenix MVP, Thomas West, discuss how teams would look if they could only be comprised of players that debuted with them, predicting regular season standings and postseason results.
Drew and Seth see how many of their preseason predictions came true during the 2020 MLB season.
In honour of the Blake Snell trade, Drew and Seth analyze how the Rays have fared in their recent trade history.
Seth and Drew go through what every NL team needs for next season while getting into the holiday spirit.
Recorded before the Cleveland Baseball Team name change, Seth and Drew go through what every AL team needs for next season while getting into the holiday spirit.
Drew, Seth and guest, Jack "The Problem" Shapiro attempt to snake-draft the next ten World Series winners, with each drafter having five picks.
Because of Shane Bieber and Trevor Bauer's Cy Young wins, Drew and Seth attempt to draft Cy Young winners for the next ten years.
Drew and Seth break down the World Series, and do team eulogies (superlatives) for the World Series teams, in the Los Angeles Dodgers and Tampa Bay Rays, and the LCS losers, in the Houston Astros and Atlanta Braves.
Drew and Seth talk about the World Series as well as the possibility of the 2020 rule changes extending to future seasons.
Recorded on Thursday morning, Drew and Seth breakdown the ALDS series between the Tampa Bay Rays and New York Yankees, and Houston Astros and Oakland Athletics, and the NLDS series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres, and Atlanta Braves and Miami Marlins, with Drew also highlighting what players for each team will be the biggest X-factors.
Recorded Thursday morning, Seth and Drew go over the MLB first round while having some fun along the way.
This episode Drew and Seth catch up on the standings for every team in the MLB, while touching on baseball's crazy playoff format.
This episode, Seth and Drew go for a spin down Correlation Lane to explore how predictive the 2019 season was for 2020 compared to 2018 for 2019. Along the way, they talk about the MLB's biggest jumpers and dippers in WAR per game.
This episode, Drew gives Seth his All-Star rosters to make up for the fact that the All-Star Game won't actually be played this season.
In this unorthodox episode, Seth and Drew give MLB comparisons to modern NBA greats like Giannis Antetokounmpo, Luka Doncic and LeBron James in honour of the NBA playoffs.
This episode, Drew educates Seth on some of the MLB's most exciting up-and-comers under the age of 25.
After the legends of Joe Kelly and Ramon Laureano, this episode, Drew educates Seth on the most likely player on every team to want to retaliate against the Astros after their cheating scandal.
This episode, Drew and Seth go over the records of every team in the MLB and decide what records are flukey and what records are sustainable.
This episode, Seth goes through the current position player and pitcher WAR leaderboards looking for names he doesn't recognize, and Drew explains who these players are and if they are worth knowing.
This episode, Drew and Seth guess the over/unders for MLB team records just in time for Opening Day.
This episode, Seth and Drew go over their awards predictions for the shortened season. The catch is: Drew's only allowed to choose players who haven't yet been voted top five in that award.
This episode, recorded in mid-June, predicts the results of the 2019 MLB Season if it started on July 1? Would Cody Bellinger and Mike Trout be MVPs? Would Jacob deGrom and Justin Verlander win Cy Youngs? Would the Washington Nationals win the World Series?
Because of the release of Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa's documentary "Long Gone Summer," and the release of Roy Halladay's documentary "Imperfect," this episode Seth and Drew are battling each other, pitching documentaries to friend and Outside Baseball superfan, Jackson Farough.
Drew catches Seth up on how the ten best pitchers and ten best position players in the MLB in 2016 have played since then.
This episode, Drew and Seth go through Bleacher Report's "Baseball's 50 Weirdest All-Time Superstitions" article, picking out some particularly odd standouts.
In this pre-COVID-19 episode of Outside Baseball, Seth asks Drew one question about each team in the American League. The boys get into everything from the Astros' cheating incident to Seth's adventures on ADD medication.