Bomba Breakdown

Max and Malcolm run through baseball news from the last four months, getting you up to date going into 2024

Max and Malcolm recap the last 4 months of baseball and everything that has gone down with the twins in time to get you all caught up for the playoff race. Go Twins!

Max and Malcolm banter about the world baseball classic for quite some time and talk about the favorites and their favorites. After a little time spent on injury updates we move into a fun draft to talk a little about what we anticipate for certain Twins players next year. Enjoy!!

Max and Malcolm spend the episode breaking down the Luis Arraez trade, the positives (Pablo López!! Prospects!!) and the negatives of not getting to watch Luis Arraez play every day. It’s one of the saddest episodes in BB history but we get through it together.

It happened!! The Twins signed none other than all star shortstop Carlos Correa to a 6 year 200 million dollar deal! Max and Malcolm are thrilled by the news as they struggle to comprehend what it means.

Max and Malcolm discuss the flurry of free agent moves from around the MLB during the winter meetings and the Twins lack of action, we then turn to the plan for the Twins from here and the likelihood of resigning Carlos Correa. In the middle they discuss a little about the Twins moving up their draft pick for next year and mourn the potential of trading Luis Arraez away.

Malcolm and Max discuss the high price tag that pitchers have been going for this off-season and break down how that affects the Twins approach to the off-season before going down some tangents in the second half of the episode.

We begin the episode by catching up on some goodbyes to some twins who brought us lots of joy and then we draft other baseball things that we are thankful for this year.

Max and Malcolm spend nearly two full hours breaking down the many free agents the Twins may sign this winter. It’s a long one but lots of fun hypotheticals hear be sure to listen so you can make fun of us when we are wrong later

We give a post mortem on the twins season and look back on the bright spots, wherever we can find them. We are happy to be back as the Twins start building to the 2023 World Series!

We talk about the Twins season to this point and in particular the depth that has allowed them to get through a ridiculous number of injuries to key players. We go through one by one to give you a break down of each Twins hitter to this point in the season. We will be back in the next week with another episode on the pitchers so stay tuned. Stay safe and get your vaccine

Most of this episode is spent celebrating the signing of Carlos Correa, the number one free agent this year and one of the top shortstops in baseball. We also talk about what move needs to happen next to make this Twins team a World Series contender

We discuss a flurry of Twins moves leaving us questioning everything, and trusting no one. We give you insights on the new Twins while bidding farewell to those moving on to other things.

I’m pretty sure we used this same episode title for an episode in 2020 but the feeling of the return of baseball when we were feeling doubt we would get to see it at all is a joyous now as then. We talk about what the return to baseball means and how excited we are for whatever this season is. We also discuss the trade the Twins made with the Rangers, shipping Mitch Garver off for Isiah Kiner-Falefa and Ronny Henriquez

I’m an episode that was recorded a month too late, we breakdown the seven year 70+ million dollar extension for the superstar center fielder. After that we have a brief discussion of the MLB lockout and how frustrating it is as fans.

Happy thanksgiving to all of you, in this episode of Bomba breakdown we discuss the departure of our favorite turtle man and discuss short stop options for the 2022 Minnesota Twins.

Max and Malcolm discuss MLB postseason awards and free agent news before discussing pitchers the Twins could sign this offseason.

We look back on the Twins season as a whole and how it didn’t go exactly as we predicted before giving awards out to some of the best players from this season. After that we talk a little about what holds we need to fill for next year and banter a little bit abt Max’s English grade. (ps Malcolm is always right, Max isn’t)

We discuss what the Twins season will hold with hope lost now. We also spend a long time on who is hot and who is not covering the last few months of Twins baseball. We ran into delays in editing, sorry this episode dropped late and we will hopefully be back with another one soon.

After a long hiatus bomba breakdown returns to cover the Twins crazy trade deadline including four trades headlined by a Jose Berrios blockbuster. We also talk a little about what the rest of the Twins season is going to look like after giving up and how we want to approach the 2022 season.

The long awaited return of Bomba Breakdown is here, we are sorry for the lack of episodes lately, our lives have been crazy worth our own baseball and the end of school. This super-sized episode features a summary of the last month and a half and some analysis of what has gone wrong. We also try to project what the coming weeks will bring and discuss whether the season is a lost cause yet. After the break we talk a little more about league news, specifically Jacob DeGrom, pitchers using sticky stuff, and the ridiculous amount of injuries lately.

We delight in the successes of Byron Buxton but that’s about all the optimism this week brought for the Twins. We do breakdown the signs of hope that next week will be better and tell u who is hot. We apologize for this episode coming out late, our lives have been very busy and we will do our best to keep the content coming, but it may be spotty.

We delight in the success of Byron Buxton, but struggle to accept a 6 same losing streak in the middle of the week. After the break we tell you who was hot and who was not. Finally, we wrap up by discussing the brutal murder of Daunte Wright and what we can possibly do to help.

We breakdown a solid first week of baseball including a near no hitter for Jose Berrios. After the break we discuss the news that MLB is moving the all-star game out of Atlanta to protest voter suppression laws. We also breakdown the Twins early season injuries.

In this episode we start and end with the tragic passing of Twins bench coach Mike Bell, a great coach and an even better human being. In between we fit in lots of Twins talk, from the Randy Dobnak extension to what the opening day line up will be. We hope you are as excited for the season as we are and we can’t wait to break it down for you all season long. We apologize for the audio issues in this episode, we have been having some microphone problems but we hope to have them figured out shortly.

We suffered from some audio issues, but we got a short episode with some discussion of Alex Kirilloff being sent to the minors. Then we project a few of the players key to the Twins success next year.

We go through the last week of Twins games, and cover who’s been hot, and who has not. We also spend a good amount of time delighting in the wonder that is Kenta Maeda. After the break we project stats for a few more Twins players. Make sure to vote in the bracket on our Instagram story for who is the best Twins player for this next season.

We discuss a full week of Twins baseball, recapping the highlights and covering who’s how and who’s not. After the break we appreciate Jake Odorizzi’s Twins career and analyze his contract with the Astros. We continue our projections series, with some big players in the Twins lineup and rotation.

We have Twins baseball back, and we breakdown the games so far. After that we discuss the fact that J.A. Happ arrived in camp and Andrelton Simmons still hasn’t. After the break we project stats for four players.

We start by celebrating the fact that the Twins are back in camp and ready to get into baseball season. We then discuss the Matt Shoemaker signing and what that could do for the Twins rotation. After the break we talk about extension possibilities for Twins players as how we would feel about those happening. Finally, we finish up by starting a series where we give stats projections for Twins players.

We anticipate the start of Spring Training and look forward to what will happen over the first few days. Then we make predictions for the entire American League.

We begin by discussing the Alex Colomé signing and the trade of LaMonte Wade for Shaun Anderson, as well as the waiver claim of Ian Hamilton. After the break we grade the offseason so far and theorize if the Twins have any moves left.

We celebrate the signing of star DH Nelson Cruz, before discussing a little bit of league news. In the second half we have a little fun with a draft of 2021 Twins.

In this “emergency podcast” we celebrate the signing of the greatest defensive shortstop of the 21st century, and discuss the effects this will have on our entire infield. We wrap it up with a short discussion on the status of Nelson Cruz and how likely he is to come back to the Twins.

We breakdown the signing of J.A. Happ, as our fourth starter and give you some idea of what to expect from him. Then we remember the great life of Hank Aaron, and all the historic moments he provided. After the break we discuss the recently announced rule changes for 2021 and how they will affect the Twins.

We talk about big moves happening for some of our biggest rivals and complain that the Twins aren’t making the big moves. We also spend a little bit of time on the international free agent signings the Twins made this year. We wrap up with some discussion of the potential for fans in Target Field during the 2021 season.

We analyze how the Francisco Lindor trade will affect the layout of the 2021 AL Central. Then we briefly touch on the Nationals signing of Kyle Schwarber, and the sad news of the passing of longtime Dodger manager Tommy Lasorda. Finally, we give a preview of what we expect the Twins to do over the last month of the offseason.

We first breakdown how the Hansel Robles signing will impact the Twins next year before we spend most of the episode counting down our top 10 moments of the Twins 2020. We apologize for the audio issues in the first half.

We begin by discussing the Twins minor league free agent signings and talk a little about the potential for MLB to move the start of the season back to May. We breakdown the decision to recognize the Negro Leagues as a major league, and finally talk about rumors of the Twins making a big splash in the trade market. We end with trivia on player uniform numbers.

We begin by breaking down the Twins losses in the rule 5 draft, the White Sox trade for Lance Lynn, and the All-MLB teams. After the break, we do some trivia and excite over the news that Cleveland will be changing their team name. We have Twitter now: @BombaBreakdown

We reminisce on the good times and bad with Eddie Rosario, Matt Wisler, and Trevor May. After the break, we discuss deals with many key players and the official announcement of the Saints as our AAA affiliate.

We dive into the Twins 9th-18th ranked prospects and talk about how and when they can impact the big league squad. After the break we finish with some 2019 trivia.

We discuss a little bit of Twins news, before breaking down some of the Twins top prospects, in the first part of a series on the future Twins.

We start by talking about the MVP and Cy Young votes and how Twins players did. After that we have a short discussion on former Twins on the hall of fame ballot. In the second half we breakdown free agent utility infielders and which we should sign.

We discuss the MLB awards being handed out over the last few days, before discussing some of the top free agent starting pitchers. We end with some Bomba Breakdown themed trivia.

We discuss the tightly contested World Series between the Rays and the Dodgers, before breaking down Twins gold glove nominees and analyzing the Twins chances of resigning Nelson Cruz. We end with a new weekly segment of Twins trivia, you can try your hand at on our Instagram(@bomba_breakdown)

We give our Twins MVP, Cy Young, Rookie of the year, and reliever of the year picks then we have a short discussion about more offseason targets.

We breakdown the Twins elimination from the postseason and what we hope and expect the offseason to look like.

We excite over the Twins AL Central championship and look ahead to the three game battle with the Astros.