In Episode 367, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about DVD players and then discuss five mostly baseball topics.  1. Can't you Snell that Snell: Blake Snell is hurt and no learning will occur. 2. The masculine urge to say “we’re back” 20 minutes after saying “it’s over”: Checking in on some early-season lines for both good and ill. 3. Around the Horn: All you Chase Anderson and injury news 4. What to Watch: The Rockies and Padres at even higher elevation 5. A game that goes more or less...

The Heat Check is back for another season of minor league baseball. Nathan and Smith take a look at who is off to a hot start and Ben Zeidman dives deeper on Joey Loperfido. 

In Episode 366, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about Bluey (again) and then discuss five mostly baseball topics.   1. Here we are now going to the South Side: Things have gotten quite bad for the pale hose, and we recorded this segment before they were shut out again. 2. Fraud Watch: Some teams that miught be playing some fradulent baseball in the early goings. 3. Around the Horn: Your weekly check-in on Rockies weirdness, and the usual injury round up. 4. What to Watch: A weird week made...

In Episode 365, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about Bluey and then discuss five mostly baseball topics.  1. Ascent into Madness: A podcasts segment that will also be a column but also needed to be a podcast segment and doesn't even include the FAA investigation. 2. What's got into that cat?: Have the Mets stolen the Pirates friskiness, and who else is looking frisky. 3. Around the Horn: The Cardinals want some money please, plus more pitcher injuries and one pitcher returnign from...

In Episode 364, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about Wilyer Abreu's defense and continental drift and   then discuss five mostly baseball topics.  1. Real or No Real: April baseball is just a construct.  2. Profar away, doesn't anybody stay in one place anymore: Jurickson Profar found himself very relavant this past weekend. 3. Around the Horn: Even more pitcher injuries, and some second city signings.   4. What to Watch: The Mariners and the Mets? Yeah, it's a weird week.  5. An all-time...

In Episode 363, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about allergies and bros and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. Real or No Real: We debate how real the baseball season is so far. 2. Holliday, far away, to stay: A third Jackson has entered the majors. 3. Around the Horn: Mostly injuries, some Ohtani 4. What to Watch: some intriguing pitching matchups, and one much less intriguing one 5. This game goes to 363 Five and Dive is listener-supported, you can join our Patreon at...

In Episode 362, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about chain steakhouses and then discuss five mostly baseball topics.  1. Me and UCL and Everyone We Know: A lot of pitchers got hurt since the last show, we (and everyone else) try to figure out what is happening.  2. Stephen at Home: In other news, an oft-injured ace hangs it up officially. 3. Around the Horn: Nabil Crismatt clears waivers, Chase Anderson picks up some saves, and other, less important news. 4. What to Watch: Pablo Lopez...

In Episode 361, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about the rain and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. National Jump to Conclusions Week: No-hitters, 0.00 ERAs, and hoo boy the Marlins.Booted from Oakland: The A's have a new home, temporarily maybe. Things are going badly in their current one though.Around the Horn: Josh Jung is hurt again, Julio Teheran finds a new home, and we are all waiting for the Phil Bickford Yankees Getty photo to drop.I wasn't talking about the hot dog: But we are, two...

In Episode 360, Jeffrey and Craig chat about Crismatt and coffee and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. National Jump to Conclusions Week: Some teams are who we thought they were (derogatory). Some teams are who we thought they were (complimentary). Yankees fans are definitely who we though they were (horny for Waldo).  2. Everybody Hurts, Springtime: Some oft-injured players are injured already, low dugout railings are the bain of two first basemen, and a top prospect may have...

In Episode 359, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about Ohtani and a bunch of NL West moves and then discuss the five teams in the American League East 1. The Yankees are a CBS procedural, we just can't agree on which one.  2. The Jays can't keep getting away with this (winning 90 games and feeling underwhleming every year). 3. The Rays can't keep getting away with this (turning either Jacob Waguespack or Tyler Anderson into a good 130-inning starter, we aren't sure which one). 4. Orioles...

In Episode 358, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about Shohei Ohtani (after ever other baseball podcast on the planet), Chase Anderson (probably only on this baseball podcast), and some Guardians roster moves before discussing the five teams in the NL East Atlanta remains a strong favorite for the division, but some cracks might be showing.The Phillies are almost the exact same team again for good and ill.Because we are a Mets podcast, we discuss the MetsMiami is short on pitching and short...

Smith and Nathan are back with another season of the Heatc Check, and they've assembled members of the BP Prospect Team to draft their most underrated prospects going into the 2024 minor league season. 

In Episode 357 Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about the actual Dylan Cease trade and then discuss the five teams in the AL Central 1. The Twins are projected to win how many games? 2. The Guardians are determined to get under their projection. 3. The Tigers might be frisky? 4. The Royals are prepared to single you to death and maybe pitch a little bit. 5. The White Sox vibes have somehow gotten worse. Five and Dive is listener-supported, you can join our Patreon at...

In Episode 356, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about scavenger hunts and Travis Bazzana and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. Stay Ceasey, San Diego: The Padres trade for Dylan Cease, just like we were all thinking on the last show. 2. Can't you Snell that Snell?: A Cy Young Runner up has a new own, but a two-time winner is still in limbo 3. Spring Breakers: The first Annual(?) Spring Breakout is in the books, what did we learn?(other than sometimes it does rain in...

In Episode 355, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about the Dylan Cease trade that hadn't happened yet and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. PECOTA loves the St. Louis Cardinals, we just think they're neat. 2. The Cubs are probably going to be around .500 3. The Brewers are probably going to be around .500 (Jeffrey is more bearish) 4. The Reds are probably going to be around .500 (Craig is more bullish) 5. The Pirates are not going to be around .500, but are very much and NL...

In Episode 354, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig cover the recent AL East and NL West news and then discuss the five teams in the AL West. 1. The Astros are still here, still good, but now kinda boring. 2. The Rangers are not boring, but very injured 3. The Mariners are The Mariners 4. The Angels still have Mike Trout, but we don't talk much about Mike Trout. 5. The Athletics? Five and Dive is listener-supported, you can join our Patreon at patreon.com/fiveanddive. If you want to get in contact...

In Episode 353, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about fast food and then discuss five mostly baseball topics.  1. Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect: We finally have Vegas stadium renderings. We also have questions.  2. Everybody Hurts, Springtime: A long list of preseason injuries to go through. 3. Zunino TV: Remebering Mike Zunino and I guess the 2013 Mariners. 4. Around the Horn: A Brayan Bello extension, minor league deals, and a pitcher still seeking a major league one 5. Patrick...

In Episode 352, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about Will Ospreay and Zack Wheeler and then discuss the five teams in the NL West. 1. The Dodgers are inevitable, famous...likable? 2. Did the Diamondbacks do enough? What does enough even mean with six playoff teams? 3. The Giants might be the most average team in baseball, even after signing Matt Chapman 4. The Padres are an interesting mess 5. The Rockies remain the Rockies. Five and Dive is listener-supported, you can join our Patreon...

In Episode 351, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about secret weddings and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. The Rite of Spring: Spring training has started, are our podcast hosts learning? 2. A joyous return of baseball: A lot of pitchers are already hurt. 3. Around the Horn: Free agency is still slow going, although both Enrique Hernandez and Brandon Crawford have new (old) homes. 4. Thanks I Hate It: Stupid sexy bull mascot 5. A much more normal game experience, complete...

In Episode 350, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about trips to the zoo and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. I hope he tells us to burn our pants: Yes it's time for fabrication and tailoring chat on your favorite baseball podcast.That's Cub: Cody Bellinger is a Cub againThe Bore-us angle: Yes it's time for Scott Boras chat on your favorite baseball podcastAround the Horn: Enrique Hernandez decided on a different team than the four he was deciding between when we recorded this.The...

In Episode 349, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about watching college games and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. Go Birds: Hyun-Jin Ryu has flown back to Korea and the Hanwha Eagles 2. #RaysMethod: The Rays sign Amed Rosario for not all that much. 3. The Expanse: Jeff Passan wrote about baseball's expansion plans, and we discuss them. 4. Around the Horn: A good week for the Keller Fellers. 5. What's in a name? And also is your name Jim? Or Tim? Five and Dive is...

In Episode 348, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about hiking and sandwiches and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. Chase Anderson Facts: Chase Anderson has signed a deal with the Pirates. That is really the only Chase Anderson fact for now. 2. A joyous return of baseball: Most of the Orioles are hurt, also Josh Jung...again. 3. There is no such thing as a free agency: Perhaps Baltimore should sign one or more of the still very good available FA then. 4. Around the Horn: The A's...

In Episode 347, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig discuss Mike Rizzo's view on fastballs and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. Becaue We're a Mets Podcast: A former Mets GM is suspended, while a current Mets owner is losing a lot of money? Plus, some bread box chat. 2. Minor Threat: MLB continues to be habitual rake steppers when it comes to the minors and player development. 3. Sharp Dressed Man: The new MLB jerseys look terrible, who is to blame? 4. Aeround the Horn: A few minor...

In Episode 346, Patrick and Jeffrey discuss Netflix documentarties and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 1. It sure is a (psychological) projection system: It's PECOTA Week and this is a PECOTA segment. 2. Don’t Come Back to Oakland (Waste Another Year): Perhaps we are uniquely concerned with weird A's moving stuff among baseball podcasts, but it continues to be weird. 3. The Air Out There: Look we will get to like the Corbin Burnes trade, but again, we refer you to the episode...