Tom Verducci
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Sep 29, 2026
Tom VerducciHOST
[upbeat music] Hey there, and welcome back.
Tom VerducciHOST
It's The Book of Joe podcast with me, Tom Verducci, and Joe Maddon.
Tom VerducciHOST
And Joe Maddon, it is baseball postseason time.
Tom VerducciHOST
All this stuff about, you know, it's a marathon, it's a long season, you got time to recover, throw it out the window, man.
Bob CostasGUEST
Maybe I should have realized I was losing something on my fastball.
Bob CostasGUEST
But in fact, in 2022, which was the first of the three years I did with Turner, a lot of the broadcasts with Jim Cott and with Tom Verducci were very, very well received.
Bob CostasGUEST
And I can't really explain, you know, how obsessive you can get.
Bob CostasGUEST
If you go back and look at something you wrote, it's really good.
11 MINS LATER
Bob CostasGUEST
empathy i didn't want to humiliate him
Joe PosnanskiHOST
well and i think the point came across i didn't think i had to i thought any
Bob CostasGUEST
perceptive viewer would know and that's why that's why i pulled that punch yeah you know and then what they went back to the studio and the great and i mean great tom verducci said appropriately okay if you only did it to get up back on the field why are you apologizing to everybody Why are you calling the Maris family and apologizing? Why are you calling Bud Seelig and apologizing? But I thought those things were better left unsaid while he was sitting there and that any smart person could kind of tie it all together.
Joe PosnanskiHOST
Okay, so let's talk about...
Jen LadaHOST
At least one person.
Jen LadaHOST
Uh, Verducci.
Kyle WallaceGUEST
Okay.
Jen LadaHOST
Verducci had Yankees v.
Jen LadaHOST
Brewers in the World Series.
Jen LadaHOST
Um, only one of them at the N- MLB Network had the Dodgers as the NL representative in the World Series.
Adam WeinribHOST
i don't feel that way at all and that's not the homer in me speaking like i think the winner of this series has a a nice cool keen better than 50 50 shot at the world series at making it to the world series so yeah a lot at stake and i do think this is pretty evenly matched
Robert MurrayHOST
yeah this is almost like the alcs being played in the wild card game it's kind of crazy i mean that's not a slight here at the tampa bay rays because they're absolutely very much in that conversation here among the best teams in baseball, but like this series being played, we were talking about a pre-show and we even, I think we talked about it with Tom Verducci the other, the other day.
Robert MurrayHOST
We really wish this was a seven game series.
Robert MurrayHOST
Oh, well maybe, I don't know.
Adam WeinribHOST
We're asking for your very best starts.
Adam WeinribHOST
In a series like that where I, I was on with Tom Verducci on the Baseball Insiders yesterday, he said first to three is gonna win some of these games, and that does feel right.
Adam WeinribHOST
These teams just played a one-nothing game to open the most important series of the year at Yankee Stadium.
Adam WeinribHOST
The margin for error is thin as melting ice, and you're gonna bring a compromised Aaron Judge into the series.
Tony MassarottiHOST
But either way, it was the same concept in terms of how they built the team.
Tony MassarottiHOST
Verducci had a stat one year where it was something like the Yankees had won – 50 of 55 games against right-handed starters at New York.
Tony MassarottiHOST
Something like that.
Tony MassarottiHOST
And I remember thinking, holy crap, you can't throw a righty in there.
Tom VerducciHOST
[upbeat music] Hey there, and welcome back.
Tom VerducciHOST
It's The Book of Joe podcast with me, Tom Verducci, and of course, Joe Maddon.
Tom VerducciHOST
Uh, Mr. Maddon, we are in the last days of the regular season, the last week of the regular season, heading to the postseason.
Tom VerducciHOST
What was always y- your, uh, vantage point here, uh, for a team looking to play postseason baseball, planning ahead? How did you want to handle the last week?
43 MINS LATER
Joe MaddonGUEST
Um, but I also wonder, like, if we actually threw harder, some of them, than we're given credit for back then.
Joe MaddonGUEST
But just on a grading system, I could give a 50 number, which was average.
Joe MaddonGUEST
If you threw-- If, if Tom Verducci threw 88 on my Jugs gun, and I wrote a report on Tommy, if his fastball was an 88, 89, I'd give him a 50 grade, which is average Major League velocity.
Joe MaddonGUEST
And that was in from, like, 1981 till pretty much I stopped scouting in 1993, '94, when I went to the big league.
Joe MaddonHOST
I could give a 50 number, which is average.
Joe MaddonHOST
If Tom Verducci threw 88 on my jugs gun and I wrote a report on Tommy, if his fastball was an 88, 89, I'd give him a 50 grade, which is average major league velocity.
Joe MaddonHOST
And that was in from like 1981 till pretty much I stopped scouting in 1993, 94 when I went to the big leagues.
Joe MaddonHOST
So that's how, of course, that's been a while ago.
Evan RobertsHOST
And you could tell the excitement.
Evan RobertsHOST
It was Tom Verducci who did it.
Evan RobertsHOST
It was Verducci and Kenny Albert.
Evan RobertsHOST
And I thought overall they did a good job, by the way.
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