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Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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Hello and welcome to Talkin' 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 Sirocco. producing. Dalton's live in the sheet. Update all sorts of stats and info. You're going to get all of it today, people. Yeah, some breaking news this morning.
The Mets make the move that everyone thought they could have made two months ago. It happened. I don't know. Well, I was going to say I don't know what happened, but God, I do know what happened in that Cubs series. Coach Trev, how are you? Chili and Calabasas, huh?
Yeah, we're going through a week here where it's like in the 70s, which, you know, end of June into July shouldn't really be that way. So I'm happy because some of those really hot days get to me. But yeah, breaking news this morning. We're going to talk. You kind of like ruined some stuff I was going to do later in the show already. Ruined?
I don't know if you ruined it, but hey, man, let the people be surprised, okay? Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, look, lots of good baseball. I can't wait to talk about my award because I think you're going to be like, oh, yeah, this is. I'm interested to see how you feel about it. Okay. So that's some foreshadowing.
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Chapter 2: What breaking news impacts the Mets?
An eight-run ninth inning helped open it up. Derrick Hill, two outs, two strikes in the ninth, and he goes big fly. Phillies saved themselves a couple times late in this series, and then in the final game, Christopher Sanchez. Phillies offense, they take three out of four. The Cubbies, they brought the mop to flushing, and they brought the ax. Tough man. Carlos Mendoza fired.
Dansby Swanson's very good day. Was that 11 RBI? Holy smokes. Doubleheader day. Cubs end up winning all four games. They survived their pitching injuries. In the final game, they win in extras. PCA, and people might forget, former Met kind of, Mets farmhand. We've got Keith Hernandez talking about it.
The Brewers sweep the Cincinnati Reds because this is every Brewers Reds series we've seen in the history of this show. A 2-1 extra inning game. Yep. 2-0 game. Yep. One run final game. 6-5. William Contreras and Jake Bowers, back-to-back homers in that one. You know Andrew Vaughn got involved. Ah, Cincinnati. I've got a fun stat about them. That's how you keep them coming, Trev.
Dodgers swept the Twins. You already heard about that. It all ended with Jovers' show. Dalton rushing. Chris Rose is commenting on social media about it. Mookie Betts, 300 career homers. Los Angeles had 17 hits in that second. Okay. The Diamondbacks take two out of three from the St. Louis Cardinals after they won the first game. Andre Palante, how's your bounce back season?
But then it snakes the rest of the way. A crazy ninth inning in that second game. Scoreless into the ninth in a 4-3 final as the Snakes get it. And then Ildemarro. Oh, I kind of had it that time. Snakes get the series. The Marlins take two out of three from the Texas Rangers. And I don't know, it felt obvious to me, which feels sad. Sandy Alcantara with the most strikeouts in Marlins history.
Did you know? As he gets the win in that second game. Oh, and Casey has been hot lately. And then they outlast DeGrom. Otto Lopez, very good. Marlins, they get the series in your final series. Two of the worst teams in baseball, the Boston Red Sox and the Colorado Rockies. The Rockies take two out of three in that final game. Oh, my God.
If you want to listen to some broadcasting anger, listen to the Red Sox watching Marcelo Mayer. Kind of blow the game. He admits it. They turn to double play with two outs. Really, really bad. Rockies take two out of three. That's what happened in the National League.
I just did the, this is the standings part of the show, but you mentioned this is every single Reds game against the Brewers. So I was like, you know what? I feel like the Reds never beat the Brewers. They don't. And so I went back and just did some quick math. And my pen didn't work, so I'm just reading indentations on this paper. Here we go.
Since the COVID year, so the last five full seasons of baseball, they're 27 and 53 against the Brewers. So that's not going to get it done against one of your division rivals. I do have the rest of the standings, though.
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Chapter 3: How did the Cubs perform against the Mets?
Trev, I feel like you and I sometimes struggle with the manager stuff because it's, A, like what? I don't know. If the Mets don't get... If they don't lose last night in extras, is Mendy still fired? And this had been rumored for a while now, so I guess, where do you land on?
uh again i want to preface this by saying i've never met carlos mendoza never been in a clubhouse with him so like this is all just kind of uh me what i've seen on screen or read and you know obviously i take into account other people and what they say but i feel like there was not a lot of accountability in the mets organization i don't know if i ever remember him kind of getting on guys
kind of in the dugout or through the media. I'm not a huge fan of that all the time, but there are certain times where you've got to kind of go after your team and make them feel accountable. And just, I don't know. Obviously, there are some good times in his tenure. A few. There's some big comeback. What was it? 2024, big comeback at the end of the year. There's some good times.
And LCS.
Yeah.
But right now, it's just so bad. The expectations were so high. I mean, they haven't had their full team all year, but it's just gone so poorly that I think it almost had to have happened. And we saw it already with a couple different guys at the beginning of the year on different teams. And that's why I think you said this one seems like a long time coming.
But was I shocked at all with this news? I mean, your team just got mopped. At home, you made six errors in a game. No, I'm not surprised at all.
Yeah, it got out of control. I mean, the stadium this weekend, and a fun one about that, Rob knows because Rob was there. Man, I think it's funny going back to... Because originally it was the Mets and the Phillies. And it was like, whoa, these two teams that we expected to be powers, it's getting ugly quick.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of the Brewers' recent success?
Are one of them going to hit the button? And if we had to place a bet on it, fanatics, if we were going to place a bet on it, we probably would have said the Mets. Like Rob Thompson and what the Phillies have been and what they've been through together. that Mendy, you're right, like they go on that NLCS run that kind of came out of nowhere.
And when he was originally hired, everyone was kind of wondering, like, is he the guy before the guy? Because the Mets said they were going to operate differently, and it wasn't the flashiest name. And we were still waiting for the Stearns and the Mets. Yes, Trev?
Question, sorry. Did Mendy come after Carlos Beltran was not allowed to be the manager? No. Is that when he showed up?
I've got to double check the timeline. I don't think so. I think that's earlier. Beltran was hired after the 2020 season. Then who was next? So Buck Showalter.
Oh, my God.
Yes, dude. Baseball happens so fast, bro. So they went, wow, wow. So is Mickey Calloway. Okay, let's do it. This is fun. Okay, so Buck Showalter. Terry Collins, 2011 to 2017. Mickey Calloway, and remember how much of a fiasco that was when everyone was finding out who Mickey Calloway was? Shirts off. Did he start tarps off? I don't think he started tarps off. I think he started something else.
Luis Rojas then takes over.
I'd forgotten about Luis Rojas, and that was when Brody Van Wagnon was their GM.
2020, 2021. Buck Showalter for two years, 22 and 23. 22, the 100-win team the next year they fell off. And then Carlos Mendoza 2024 through 2026. So... Yeah, I guess I'm a little surprised it didn't happen earlier. I wonder, like, again, because we've been doing this dance for a while now. Like, you know, the four-game mopping puts it over the edge.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of the Mets firing Carlos Mendoza?
I'm just, I'm sending my best wishes.
It's a very, it's like a horrifying thing.
Yeah. Yeah. We see a bunch of Venezuelan dudes representing that. Obviously, they have a ton of family there.
Chapter 6: How are the Braves and Phillies performing compared to each other?
Hopefully, everyone is safe. And I don't know. I haven't really looked at some of the tolls or anything. I don't really want to. Kind of scary. Yeah. Sorry, I do have the standings in the American League. We'll give your Yankees flowers. They're still in first place in the East only by two games, though.
Chapter 7: What recent player performances are highlighted in this segment?
48-32 for them, Rays 45-33. Toronto briefly became a 500 team, and then they weren't. 39-42 for them. The Orioles 38-44, and then the Red Sox, yeesh. 33-46 in the Central. Two-way tie at the top between the White Sox and Cleveland. 41-38 for Chicago, who leads on percentage points. And 42-39 for the Guards. My Twins falling back after that sweep. Four and a half out, 38-44 for them.
Tigers, 34-47. Royals, 34-48. And then out West, the Mariners in first place with a .500 record, 41-41. 40-43 for my Astros. 39-42 for the A's.
Chapter 8: How is the playoff race shaping up in the American League?
39-42 for the West. All one and a half games out. That's going to be a lot of fun later on in the season. And yes, Sule Deportes. She's moved on. She's a World Cup phenom. Angels done. 34-48 for them. Although they just won a series. In the wild card, it would be Tampa Bay with the top spot. And then it would be either Chicago or Cleveland.
After that, and then there's four teams tied for the last spot. Houston, the A's, Texas, and Toronto. My twins and the Baltimore Orioles, one and a half back. That's as far as I'll go, people. Those are the standings in the American League. My God, those are disgusting.
disgusting, uh, somewhat four way tie, uh, for the final wildcard spot right now. And yeah, have a good week and you're in the AL playoffs. And that's what Houston just did at seven and three. They, they would be in the post season as of today, which is kind of jarring. Um, Let's go. Actually, Trev, we could have done a full episode on this if we wanted to. The Red Sox mess.
Again, the series with the Rockies. Rockies take two out of three. We love you, Young Rocks. You got fun names on your team. You're playing with Vim and Vigor, Jake McCarthy's hair. The Boston Red Sox, Trev, it is getting, it's a certain level of dark in the Commonwealth.
I mean, you don't expect to lose the game with all the Chapman on the hill, eight straight hits from them, seven straight singles before Jake McCarthy just hits one down the line, which was beautiful, by the way. I don't know what Jaron Duran was doing out there in left field. That was an interesting way to go about it. But, yeah, I mean, this is – I think this, if there wasn't already –
The Red Sox, if they weren't dead already, this is the series that kills them.
That Marcelo Mayer interview, again, some credit to him. He wears it. Durant.
Yeah, he's not had a good defensive year, but I think he's a hell of a defender, if that makes sense. Yes. I watched him...
take early ground balls i watched him through a series the guy has all the actions in the world all the ability in the world i just think that the game sped up on him a little bit and you're on a shitty team like i don't know like a lot of that just starts to compound yeah i do think in the end he like he is going to be a good defender got a hit yeah do you want to be here but uh yeah a lot a lot of stuff going wrong they're gonna fire sale it's just a matter of time for them
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