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Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast)

American League is STRUGGLING BAD right now

04 May 2026

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Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?

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Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball. Some AL East drama.

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Chapter 2: What happened with John Sterling?

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The NL Central continues to roll. The NL West was rolling the wrong way. There's a lot of ball. Let's talk it. Sean Burke.

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21.762 - 23.605 Jake Storielli

Oh, he's really good, but Matt Carpenter.

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Chapter 3: How are the AL standings shaping up?

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Oh, really good career. Really good career. I'll bet on Matt Carpenter.

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Chapter 4: What are the key takeaways from the Royals vs. Mariners series?

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Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball, presented by Fanatics Markets, where fans trade on sports. Fanatics Markets available now on the App Store. I am Jake Storielli. That is Trevor Plouffe, Rob Scirocco producing, Dalton Feely feeling it in our sheet. Big weekend of baseball. Coach, how are you?

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53.356 - 69.78 Jake Storielli

I'm doing great, Jakey boy. Big weekend of baseball. I had a tournament. Didn't go our way. So Cal Padres. Tough one yesterday. But it allowed me to get home and kind of catch a bunch of the Sunday night stuff. And that's usually good for our show.

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How about that?

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71.082 - 77.171 Jake Storielli

Oh. Yeah. I don't know how I'm doing with all the youth baseball, man. It's fun. My son loves it, but it's a lot.

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Yeah.

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It's a lot, Coach. Parents are a lot. Not our parents. Shout out our guys. Other teams' parents.

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I could see the other teams pointing at you and saying, that guy's a lot.

89.083 - 98.855 Jake Storielli

I don't know. I hate starting the show off like this. I hate starting the show off like this. I don't like how they all have walk-up music.

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Oh, yeah. No, that's fine.

Chapter 5: How is Don Kelly influencing the Pirates' performance?

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Don Kelly seems, he seems like he's got the boys fired up. Like he's a, he is a vibes guy. He goes out there, he defends his players. Like, I'm in on Don Kelly.

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Chapter 6: What recent changes have the Cardinals made to their team?

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It's a different Pirates team. It's a different Cardinals team. It is a different Cardinals team, but they played the Reds. But the Cardinals play the Dodgers. That's the good news. It's rarely good news for teams, but it was for the Cardinals who take two out of three. St. Louis is vibing and playing good baseball.

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They had a six-game win streak after game two of this series, which had the Dodgers at a four-game loser. Robleski salvages the set for them. I'm going to talk about him a little more in a little bit. But, man, Jordan Walker, who people are starting to get nervous about, like the stat. Couple tougher series. Four for four in the first game, and he's got the big two-run homer off Rookie.

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These Cardinals are fun. I know we keep saying that, but they are.

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3044.421 - 3055.118 Jake Storielli

Yeah, I'm going to talk about them a little bit more later in the show as well. But six straight, they mopped the Pirates, which is a good team. Then take the first two from the Dodgers. I mean, you're riding high.

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3055.098 - 3080.734 Jake Storielli

if you're a Cardinals fan and they're doing a bunch of different ways that the Walker Homer off Sasaki I believe it was either the ninth or tenth pitch of the at bat like really worked to count got an off speed pitch and just goes yeah yeah on it and they've been doing that a little bit of long ball a little bit of small ball which we'll get into later even the game that they lost like seeing Dustin May put together some good outings like you know he

3080.714 - 3094.877 Jake Storielli

gave a few runs, but by and large looked pretty good there. And you got a guy like Mike McGreevy who's come up and kind of solidified that rotation a little bit. Do you want to buy a little bit of Cardinal stock? I mean, I know you're in.

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I think you have equity, not stock. I accidentally bought Cardinal stock, and I'm riding it out. Trev, the problem is, dude, This Central, man, we got to talk Cubbies in a second, and they are the Cubs team they thought they were going to be, plus Moises Ballesteros, who, okay, 50 minutes in, one of the thickest lower halves I've seen on a baseball player, and he knows what he's doing.

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He was hitting second for the Cubbies. Think about all the guys you know on the Cubbies. Ballesteros hitting two-hole thicker than a cold bowl of oatmeal.

3138.275 - 3166.105 Jake Storielli

I wanted to say one last thing about the Cardinals. Gritty, gutty win game two as the Dodgers kind of like mount a rally in the ninth. Kind of, you know, they got O'Brien in there. He's still in those bowling ball sinkers. And a couple balls get past Mason Wynn. Almost makes some plays. Dodgers are like, okay, they're threatening. Looks like they're inevitable. They do bring up Dalton Rushing.

Chapter 7: What standout performances are highlighted in this segment?

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Sweet.

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D-backs and the whole NL West.

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3414.872 - 3430.749 Jake Storielli

Yeah. D-backs are struggling. A snatch for Ildemar Vargas. The hitting streak comes to an end. A lot of fun to watch. There's a note here that Tori Lovello was mad at his team on Friday, walked around the clubhouse, talked to them individually on Sunday. They got to get it going a little bit.

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It's... Yeah, they were floating around. Ildemar Vargas, player of the month. That's the update from Dahl. He loves that. Yeah, where are we at in the standings? Oh, 16 and 17. Okay, there's baseball to be played. They're going back home. Homestand Pittsburgh and the New York Mets. How are the Mets on the West Coast again? That's none of my business, sadly. What is the business?

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The Chicago White Sox, who, of course, if we're talking NL baseball, how could you not? We've already given them some love throughout the episode, whether it's the Sean Burke first pitch or Murakami's home run barrage. But Noah Schultz, who's a legit prospect with a dominant outing. Sam Antonacci, don't get me going. The White Sox are a respectable baseball team.

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I know that sounds a little dirty to say, but.

3486.705 - 3513.653 Jake Storielli

More coming on them later. So I don't want to get too far into this or else you're going to be stepping on my toes with the White Sox, who are a very, very fun watch. And I'll go into why a little bit later. Sir Anthony Dominguez. Bates is low to the ninth, but gets the out, gets the series win right there. I do want to show, you talked about Bogart's go-ahead single.

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We got to show the swing because we do cricket stuff in the warehouse, and it's a cricket swing.

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Yeah, I feel bad. I debated getting this one prepped for Bobbo, and I didn't tell him, but yeah. Oh, he's got it. The Bogart's game-winning hit. I guess before we get there... I know you're talking some whites. Are you talking Sean Burke? Cause he deserves a little more love.

Chapter 8: What is the current state of the Red Sox and their struggles?

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Six scoreless, 88 pitches, uh, 14.1 consecutive scoreless ERAs, two, seven, two. Like he's, he's becoming a guy in this league and, and maybe Noah Schultz can too, which again, the white socks pitching was, was so thin. Um, that as long as the M and M boys, Murakami and Montgomery keep homering, um, And Miguel, it's the triple M.

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3561.735 - 3562.236 Jake Storielli

3M, yeah.

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3M, that's actually better.

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3564.76 - 3577.902 Jake Storielli

That's a little Minnesota company. He added the second fastball, like a lot of guys are doing now. Started throwing a sinker this year, that's helped a lot. Just keeps guys off the scent. I mean, those are the types of changes that can change your career.

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I saw someone else on the sheet just threw a sinker this week because he was bored. I love that. Yeah. Dalt's on it. We'll get there. Murakami's 13 homers in his first 32 games, third most in MLB history. Reese Hoskins with 16. And then Aristides Aquino. So it's a funny sport sometimes. It's a funny sport sometimes.

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Show that cricket swing, Bob.

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Oh, you got it. He's got it.

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Look at this. Here's your game winner.

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Just block it. And I... I do want to be rude to my guy, Brian Hudson, but that's a pitcher fielding. That's a big body lefty.

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